Deka Medical, Incorporated

Patti B Paschal

For use with a surgical microscope having an objective lens barrel protruding therefrom, drapes, methods of draping the microscope and methods of manufacturing the drapes. In one embodiment, a drape includes: (1) a sheet, having a sheet aperture therethrough, that covers at least a portion of the surgical microscope, (2) a rigid, planar seal mount, coupled to the sheet and having a mount aperture therethrough that aligns with the sheet aperture and (3) an elastomeric sheet seal, coupled to the planar seal mount and having a dilatable seal aperture therethrough that has a constricted diameter less than the mount aperture, aligns with the mount aperture, expands to receive the objective lens barrel therethrough and elastically constricts about the objective lens barrel.

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Columbus, MS, United States of America

Patti B Paschal