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US 9,192,538 B2Granted
Adapter mattress for dental chairs
OwnerDanilo Bacchiocchiinventor
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Abstract
An adapter mattress for a dental chair is disclosed, comprising a flat upper surface and a lower surface with a suitably curved profile to adapt to the curvature of a dental chair, so that the upper surface of the mattress is disposed according to a horizontal plane, converting the dental chair into a surgery couch.
Claims6
An apparatus comprising:
- a dental chair having a seat and a back and a concave portion recessed between said seat and said back, said back extending angularly downwardly toward said concave portion, said seat extending angularly upwardly from said concave portion, said dental chair having a leg rest extending from a curved convex portion, said curved convex portion connecting said seat and said leg rest;
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- an adapter mattress positioned on said dental chair, said adapter mattress having a flat upper surface and a lower surface, said lower surface having a first portion and a second portion and a third portion, said lower surface having a convex portion between said second portion and said third portion that is received in said concave portion of said dental chair, said third portion overlying said back of said dental chair and having a thickness that decreases from said convex portion to one end of said adapter mattress, said adapter mattress having a concave portion formed between said second portion and said first portion, said convex portion of said dental chair received in said concave portion of said adapter mattress, said second portion overlying said seat of said dental chair and having a decreasing thickness from said convex portion of said adapter mattress to said concave portion of said adapter mattress, said first portion of said adapter mattress overlying said leg rest of said dental chair.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.