Case for instrument and apparatuses for dentistry
AssigneeInstitut Straumann AG
InventorsThomas Wagner, Roland Scacchi, Pascal Rerat, Paul Keller
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Abstract
A case for dental instrument including a container, a lid for closing the container, a tray, and an insert arranged alongside of the container and including an instrument-receiving unit having a holder and a carrier and pivotable between a folded down position and an opened, vertical position, axle elements for supporting the instrument-receiving unit for pivotal movement, and elements for releasably holding the instrument-receiving unit in the opened position, with the carrier being provided with instrument-receiving insert openings and the holder being provided with stop arms for retaining the instruments in the insert openings.
Claims9
A case for dental instruments and apparatus, comprising:
- a container;
- a lid for closing the container,
- at least one tray located in the container;
- an insert located in the container alongside with the tray and including an instrument-receiving unit comprising a holder and a carrier, the instrument-receiving unit being pivotable between a folded down horizontal position in which the instrument-receiving unit can be removed from the insert, and an opened, vertical position;
- swivel axles means for supporting the instrument-receiving unit for pivotal movement between the folded down and opened positions, the swivel axle means comprising swivel journals provided on opposite sides of the instrument-receiving unit and swivel journal guides arranged in opposite end walls of the insert for receiving the swivel journals;
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- means for releasably holding the instrument-receiving unit in the opened position, the holding means comprising resilient beads provided on the instrument-receiving unit and bulge means provided in a respective side wall of the insert for engaging the resilient beads,
- wherein the carrier has a plurality of insert openings for receiving dental instruments and the holder has a plurality of stop arms for immovably retaining the instruments in respective insert openings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.