Apparatus for electrical destruction of medical instruments
Granted 4 May 1999 · no office action yet
Current assignee: Innovative Medical Equipment, Inc. · originally INNOVATIVE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, LLC
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Inventors: William E. Brazis, Erin Riddell, Roger H. Ramsey, Cherry Bochmann · Examiner: Louis S. Zarfas · AU 294 · TC 2900
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1 parts›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the…
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the apparatus for electrical destruction of medical instruments showing our new design;
FIG. 2 is a top plan view thereof;
FIG. 3 is a side elevational view thereof, the other side being a mirror image;
FIG. 4 is a rear elevational view thereof;
FIG. 5 is a frontal elevational view thereof;
FIG. 6 is a bottom view thereof;
FIG. 7 is a perspective view of an alternative apparatus for electrical destruction of medical instruments showing a variation of our new design;
FIG. 8 is a top plan view of the alternative design depicted in FIG. 7;
FIG. 9 is a side elevational view of the alternative design depicted in FIG. 7, the other side being a mirror image;
FIG. 10 is a rear elevational view of the alternative design depicted in FIG. 7;
FIG. 11 is a frontal elevational view of the alternative design depicted in FIG. 7;
FIG. 12 is a bottom view of the alternative design depicted in FIG. 7.
FIG. 13 is a perspective view of a still further alternative apparatus for the electrical destruction of medical instruments showing a further variation of our new design, the side elevations, the rear elevation, the frontal elevation and the bottom view are, respectively, identical to the side elevation of FIGS. 3 and 9, identical to the rear elevation of FIGS. 4 and 10, identical to the frontal elevation of FIG. 5 and the bottom may be identical to either FIG. 6 or FIG. 12; and,
FIG. 14 is a perspective view of an even further alternative apparatus for the electrical destruction of medical instruments showing a still further variation of our new design, the side elevations, the rear elevation, the frontal elevation and the bottom view are, respectively, identical to the side elevation of FIGS. 3 and 9, identical to the rear elevation of FIGS. 4 and 10, identical to the frontal elevation of FIG. 11 and the bottom may be identical to either FIG. 6 or FIG. 12.
The broken line showing the digital readout components in FIGS. 1, 2, 7 and 8 is for illustrative purposes only and forms not part of the claimed design.
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