Holding arrangement for dental hand instruments
AssigneeVereinigte Dentalwerke Antaeos-Beutelrock Zipperer Zdarsky Ehr-GmbH & Co. KG
InventorEduard Zdarsky
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Abstract
In a manually operated instrument such as a root-canaling instrument, a security cord (10) is attached at one end to the handle (1) of the instrument by means of a mounting shell (5), which can be snapped onto and seated against the handle from the shaft end of the instrument, and at the other end to a ring (13) on the operating dentist's finger. The security cord (10) is attached to the finger ring (13) with a wrapping or clamping device (15) and can be released.
Claims14
A retainer for manually operated medical and particularly dental instruments such as root-canaling instruments, comprising:
- an instrument having a handle with an end and a working shaft end;
- a ring for mounted on a finger of an operating dentist;
- a security cord attached at one end to said handle end and at the other end to said ring;
- a mounting shell for attaching said security cord to said handle end, said mounting shell having means for snapping the mounting shell onto and seated against said handle, and having means for allowing the mounting shell to pass over said shaft end, whereby said mounting shell can be attached to said handle from the shaft end of the instrument.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.