Dental control unit with removable cover
AssigneeMDT Corporation
InventorBarry S. Young
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Abstract
A dental control unit for use by dentists and having a base, a housing on the base to enclose control structure for dental handpieces and connections for conduits interconnecting the control structure and the handpieces and a removable top cover that is fitted over the housing to prevent spattering of contaminating fluids onto the housing and that further includes parallel, spaced apart elongate cavities that are shaped to receive, position and maintain separated the conduits and attached handpieces placed on the top cover.
Claims10
A dental control unit for supporting dental handpieces comprising:
- a base;
- a housing mounted on the base;
- at least one conduit having one end secured to the base, and having attachment means on the other end;
- a dental handpiece connected to the attachment means on the other end;
- a top cover removably fitted over a top surface of said housing and including means on a top surface of the top cover to receive said handpiece and a portion of said conduit.
A removable top cover for use on a dental control unit housing comprising:
- a unitary sheet of semi-rigid, flexible material sized to cover a top surface of a control unit housing and configured to include a peripheral enclosure constructed and arranged to engage walls of said control unit housing;
- said enclosure including an upper surface configured to include at least one cavity adapted to receive a dental handpiece and a portion of a conduit connected to said handpiece.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.