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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1992
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Charles E Brockway, Fairview, NC (US);
Assignee:
Knight Manufacturing Inc., Asheville, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
433 28 ; 433 77 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for supporting and controlling fluid delivery to a dental handpiece includes a handpiece holding support arm pivotably mounted to a frame member with fluid-delivery tubing being affixed at spaced locations to the frame and to the support arm for folding of the tubing upon itself to close the tubing against fluid flow when the handpiece is mounted in the support arm's holder and for unfolding the tubing for open fluid flow when the handpiece is removed from the holder.