Foot-actuated control arrangment particularly for dental arrangment

US4523911A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• KALTENBACH & VOIGT GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Hartmut Braetsch · Schemmerhofen, DE
• Karl Herter · Warthausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 17, 1984
• Grant date: Jun 18, 1985
• Expiry date: Jan 17, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T74/20888
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A foot-actuated control arrangement, in particular for dental apparatuses, including an actuating element acting on a switch or control element, and which is equipped with a treadle. The actuating element is displaceable towards both sides from an initial position in one plane, is displaceable along a pivoted path about a stationary position, and can be restrained through at least one setting or control element in the mentioned initial position along the pivoted path and, subsequent to a displacement from this position, can be automatically returned thereto.