Patent · US Expired

Delivery system for dental instruments or the like

US4421483A · kind A · utility

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4References

1Claims

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Assignee

Sybron Corporation · US

Inventors

Helmut Pietschmann · Waldbronn, DE
Manfred Schmidt · Krefeld, DE
Emil Hirth

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 4, 1981
Grant date	Dec 20, 1983
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 4, 2001

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61G15/16
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A dental unit has dental instruments carried by individual nests, the nests being selectively movable from a storage position to a readiness position. Each nest is carried to the readiness position in a controlled manner such that the axis of the instrument becomes horizontal and moves downwardly as the instrument approaches the readiness position.

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