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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:
Sep. 19, 1995
Filed:
Jan. 21, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eugene F Bowlin, Jr, Medford, OR (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
422297 ; 422300 ; 422292 ; 206370 ; 206560 ; 206564 ; 206565 ; 220315 ; 220334 ; 292218 ; 292D / ;
Abstract
A dental instrument sterilization cassette securely retains dental instruments on a cover and tray of a perforated housing. Within the cover and tray, the dental instruments are received on open cradled supports. A holddown device with a resilient covering is placed over the cradled instruments, and held in place by anchors attached to the cover and tray. The cradled supports and the resilient holddown device provide secure retention for a range of instrument sizes when the cassette is in either an opened or closed position. A cassette latching mechanism with a recessed latch actuator on the cassette cover provides positive latching of the instrument cassette.