Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Orthopedic bandage – Skeletal traction applicator
Patent
1992-07-29
1993-10-19
Apley, Richard J.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Orthopedic bandage
Skeletal traction applicator
602 36, 602 37, A61H 102
Patent
active
052540790
ABSTRACT:
A head clamp which includes a frame with two arms, a bracket on one of the arms capable of rotation to adjust the position of head engaging pins affixed at the ends of the arms. The bracket is rotatable but held in position by a plurality of index pins fixed in apertures in a plate and the bracket is capable of being rotated by moving the pins out of the apertures and rotating the bracket when the head engaging pins have been removed from the patient.
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Agbodoe Victor B.
David Robert E.
Gallini Edward L.
Apley Richard J.
Codman & Shurtleff Inc.
Meindl Beverly A.
Tatlow Michael Q.
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