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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 1993
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1992
David D Baker, Jr, Hagerstown, MD (US);
Louie D Martin, Waynesboro, PA (US);
Mark W Brown, Myersville, MD (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A cassette holder and positioning assembly device for a portable x-ray mane, comprising: a mounting plate; oppositely adjustable vertical arms disposed in parallel relationship on the mounting plate attached in proximity to an outer periphery along vertical axes of the plate and opposite horizontal arms mounted fixedly on the plate and disposed in perpendicular relationship to the vertical arms; a selection handle disposed pivotally between alignment guides on a handle gear that meshes with a circumferential gear pivotally attached to linkage arms in perpendicular relationship to portions of the mounting plate beneath the alignment guides and pivotally attached to a backstop linkage arm in perpendicular relationship to the alignment guides, the backstop linkage arm is pivotally attached to a platform fixed to the mounting plate; a semi-circular indexing plate containing a plurality of notches in its inner arc and fixed in raised relation on the mounting plate above the selection handle; the selection handle having a spring-tensioned tongue member extending from a housing fixed between the handle gear and the semi-circular indexing plate, the tongue member being releasable from a given notch and available for another notch through a push button disposed in the selection handle; one of the alignment guides contains an ejection block slidably disposed in a guide rail in the alignment guide.