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US 5,328,368 AGranted
Dental cure light cover
AssigneePinnacle Products, Inc.
InventorsThomas A. Lansing, Paul W. Kuehn
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Abstract
A disposable elongate protective sheath for covering the tip of a dental cure light to prevent cross contamination between dental patients.
Claims5
A disposable single use protective cover apparatus for a dental cure light of the type having an approximately cylindrical distal light probe, said light probe having a nominal diameter, comprising:
- an elongate transparent polymeric substantially tubular sheath member having an effective diameter larger than said light source nominal diameter, and having a predetermined first length;
- a distal cover member, having a diameter smaller than said nominal light source diameter, and having a predetermined second length, forming a tubular distal cover member;
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- whereby, said tubular distal cover member is deformed into conformity with said distal light source by stretching said tubular distal cover member over said distal light probe.
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A disposable single use protective cover apparatus for a dental cure light of the type having an approximately cylindrical distal light probe, said light probe having a nominal diameter, comprising:
- an elongate transparent polymeric substantially tubular sheath member having an effective diameter larger than said light source nominal diameter, and having a predetermined first length;
- a distal cover member, having a diameter smaller than said nominal light source diameter, and having a predetermined second length, forming a tubular distal cover member;
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- whereby, said tubular distal cover member is deformed into conformity with said distal light source by stretching said tubular distal cover member over said distal light probe,
- an upper release liner;
- a lower release liner;
- said upper release liner and said lower release liner together forming a sheath reception area for positioning and protecting said sheath prior to use.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.