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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2024
Advanced Trauma Solutions, Llc, Decatur, GA (US);
Bruce H. Ziran, Decatur, GA (US);
Patrick Kelly Capeheart, Dahlonega, GA (US);
ADVANCED TRAUMA SOLUTIONS, LLC, Decatur, GA (US);
Abstract
A hinge apparatus has a pair of outrigger bars that attach to and extend outwardly from respective joint bodies. The outrigger bars can be adjusted at various angles relative to each other. The joint bodies have respective surfaces that face and engage each other. A joint screw connects the joint bodies. A torque amplifying knob with collapsable turn levers rotates a central screw turn actuator. The actuator is engaged with the screw so that movement of the actuator is caused in opposite first and second linear directions along the threaded body when rotational force is applied in opposite first and second rotational directions, respectively, to the torque amplifying knob. The turn levers of each knob can be collapsed in a side-by-side arrangement. The turn levers of the knobs are ergonomically designed so that the knobs can be hand operated, without tools, in the collapsed and un-collapsed configurations.