Stackable tympanic thermometer probe cover cassette
AssigneeSherwood Services AG
InventorsMitchell Babkes, Clarence Walker, Kevin Meier, James Harr, Mark Davis
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Abstract
Probe cover cassettes having a plurality of probe covers releasably attached to a frame are capable of being stacked so that probe covers attached to a first of the frames are nested within probe covers attached to a second of the frames. The vertical space occupied by the cassettes is reduced allowing more cassettes to be stacked in a given space. The frames of the cassettes are particularly constructed to resist twisting and bending motion when probe covers are detached from the frames using a tympanic thermometer probe.
Claims22
A cassette comprising a frame and a plurality of tympanic thermometer probe covers, the probe covers being releasably attached to the frame, the cassette being configured to be stacked with another cassette of substantially identical construction so that at least one of said plurality of releasably attached probe covers nests with at least one of the probe covers of said other cassette.
A set of stacked cassettes comprising a first cassette including a frame and a plurality of tympanic thermometer probe covers, the probe covers being releasably attached to the frame, and a second cassette including a second frame and a second plurality of tympanic thermometer probe covers, the second plurality of probe covers being releasably attached to the second frame, wherein at least one of the releasably attached probe covers of the first cassette is nested with at least one of the releasably attached probe covers of the second cassette.
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