The present invention provides a low-cost, durable dental articulator that does not require the use of toxic or messy glues. The articulator is composed of a pair of bands that encircle and are attached to the plaster upper and lower teeth bases of the model, a pair of spheres that mechanically attach to the bands at any of several positions corresponding to the rear of the mouth on the dental model, and a hinge assembly simulating movement of the jaw and made of two arcs attached to each other at their ends by a hinge mechanism and having clamps at their apexes for attaching to the spheres. The dental model can be adjusted to mimic the occlusion of the patient by adjusting the position at which the spheres are attached to the bands and the position of the spheres in the clamps.

The instrument has a sleeve (2) comprising a metal body or core (3) and a sheath (4) surmounted around the metal body or core. The sheath distorts under the effect of a type of sterilization or disinfection such as sterilization by dry heat, by steam or sterilization with ethylene oxide, currently utilized by a practitioner. The sheath is made of material whose melting point is lower than 90[deg]Celsius.

The invention relates to the automated cleaning of paint buckets (2).In a device intended for this purpose the curled mouth rims (6) of the buckets are pushed slidingly one by one into the teeth (22,23) of a lifting fork (21), tilted and positioned in upside down position at the location of a scraping station (12), where paint residues are removed from the inner surface by scraping. A thus cleaned bucket is then transported in upside down position to a flushing station (17) where the last paint residues are removed by flushing and spraying clean. The thus cleaned buckets are finally tilted back to their upright position and stacked onto each other in nested form.

1. Syringe intended for the ultra-ligamentary injection of liquid products, especially anaesthetic products, of the type composed of a body the forward portion of which, to which the injection needle is fitted, serves as housing for a container of the said liquid product, constituted by a glass tube the rear extremity of which is closed by a plug (7) of rubber or analogous material, while the rear portion of the body serves as guide for a piston (6) actuated by a rack (4), in such manner that when the operator operates the syringe, the piston progresses forward step by step, thrusting the said plug forward into the interior of the container, and consequently the liquid product into the injection needle, the piston (6) being terminated, at its forward extremity, by a head (12, 12') of a diameter substantially equal to the internal diameter of the container (8), characterised in that the head forwardly presents a concavity causing migration of the material of the plug (7) towards the axis in the advance of the piston (6).

1. Syringe intended for the ultra-ligamentary injection of liquid products, especially anaesthetic products, of the type composed of a body the forward portion of which, to which the injection needle is fitted, serves as housing for a container of the said liquid product, constituted by a glass tube the rear extremity of which is closed by a plug (7) of rubber or analogous material, while the rear portion of the body serves as guide for a piston (6) actuated by a rack (4), in such manner that when the operator operates the syringe, the piston progresses forward step by step, thrusting the said plug forward into the interior of the container, and consequently the liquid product into the injection needle, the piston (6) being terminated, at its forward extremity, by a head (12, 12') of a diameter substantially equal to the internal diameter of the container (8), characterised in that the head forwardly presents a concavity causing migration of the material of the plug (7) towards the axis in the advance of the piston (6).

A polymerizable composition is formed from (a) a polymerizable olefinically unsaturated substance, (b) a phosphorus oxyacid and an organic amine, at least one of which bears a polymerizable olefinically unsaturated group and optionally (c) a particulate inorganic material. Such compositions are useful in dental applications.

The invention relates to a color chamber doctor blade 1 , which has following characteristic features: two doctor blade knives 2 that can be set up in a roof-like fashion against a roller 6 from which two doctor blade knives 2 can be fixed on the doctor blade chamber body 5 by means of a clamping plate 3 whereby the clamping plate 3 is in active connection with long-stretch fasteners 4 in the axial direction (z) of the roller 6, which are arranged essentially parallel to the clamping plate 3 and from which the force required for fixing at least one doctor blade knife 2 is applied. Inventive is that the resultant of the force exercised by the fasteners 4 points to the doctor blade chamber body 5.

The invention relates to a method for coating a substrate with a layer of a material, such as a metal, in which a quantity of electrically conductive material is vaporized in a space with a low background pressure and energy is supplied to the material which is to be vaporized in order to vaporize this material. According to the invention, the material which is to be vaporized, while it is being vaporized, is kept floating, without support, in the space and is enclosed in an alternating electromagnetic field, the alternating electromagnetic field being generated with the aid of a high-frequency alternating current. The invention also relates to a device for coating a substrate and to a substrate.

The invention relates to a method for coating a substrate with a layer of a material, such as a metal, in which a quantity of electrically conductive material is vaporized in a space with a low background pressure and energy is supplied to the material which is to be vaporized in order to vaporize this material. According to the invention, the material which is to be vaporized, while it is being vaporized, is kept floating, without support, in the space and is enclosed in an alternating electromagnetic field, the alternating electromagnetic field being generated with the aid of a high-frequency alternating current. The invention also relates to a device for coating a substrate and to a substrate.

The invention relates to endodontic fibers suitable for the sustained release of medicaments that have been homogeneously dispersed therein. Methods of using the endodontic fibers for the local delivery of medicaments, particularly antibiotics, to intracanal treatment sites are also described.