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US 4,457,502 AGranted
Simple dental service equipment
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Morita Seisakusho
InventorRaymond D. Beach
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Abstract
A structurally simplified dental service equipment generally usable for collective dental examination and practical exercises in dental hygienist training schools, wherein the equipment is easily transportable to any places in a disassembled form and assembled on the scene of dental examination, being advantageously employable as advantageously just as existing dental service equipment in use at most dental clinics.
Claims2
A simple dental service equipment comprising:
- (a) a dental examination bed including a forward portion and a rearward portion, with both portions being connected in mutually collapsible relationship with each other and defining a substantially flattened upper surface;
- (b) the forward edge and rearward edge of the bed being each curved into an arc shape;
- (c) a headrest detachably mounted to the forward edge;
- (d) a substantially L-shaped supporting means for supporting a light projector;
- (e) tightening means rigidly attached to one side of a lower portion of the L-shaped supporting means, to removably attach the supporting means to the forward portion of the dental examination bed;
- (f) a light projector carried at an upper end of the L-shaped supporting means disposed generally above the headrest;
- (g) an annular shaped tray supporting member having one side attached to the L-shaped supporting means adjacent the lower portion thereof such that the supporting member extends from the L-shaped supporting member in a direction opposite from the tightening means;
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- (h) tray holding means attached to and disposed above the tray supporting member and extending inwardly toward its center such that the edge of a dental tray may be inserted between the tray supporting member and the tray holding means to hold the tray stationary by its own gravity and extending in a direction away from the examination bed.
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