Auxiliary support table for use by ophthalmologists
OwnerPaul F. Bailey, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
An auxiliary table for use with an operating table to support a surgeon's hands during, for example, eye surgery includes a support table having a substantially planar upper surface for supporting the surgeon's hands. A mount detachably connected to the operating table holds the support table and enables the support table to be selectively oriented from a preoperative position remote from a patient's head to an operative position overlying the patient's head. Additionally, the mount includes a base and a pivot with the pivot interconnecting the base to the operating table for permitting the base to be angularly displaced, along with the support table, from the preoperative position to the operative position.
Claims6
An auxiliary table for use with an operating table to support a surgeon's hands during, for example, eye surgery, comprising:
- support means having a substantially planar upper surface for supporting the surgeon's hands;
- and
- mounting means connected to the operating table including a base means for carrying said support means and for enabling said support means to be selectively oriented from a preoperative position remote from a patient's head to an operative position overlying the patient's head;
- said mounting means also including pivot means interconnecting said base means to the operating table for permitting said base means to be angularly displaced from said preoperative position to said operative position whereby said base means engages the operating table for being supported thereon;
- said pivot means including rod means for detachable connecting to the operating table, said base means being provided with sleeve means for rotatably receiving said rod means, said rod means including projecting means extending therefrom for detachable inserting into bore means provided in the operating table so that said rod means may be nonrotatably mounted relative to the operating table.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.