Orthodontic bracket
CA 2099730 A1 · Owner: Pletcher, Erwin C. · Inventors: Pletcher, Erwin C.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Abstract of the Disclosure A self-locking orthodontic bracket having a body with an archwire slot, and a locking slide member which is movable to open and close the slot. Archwire retention is provided by the slide member without use of conventional ligatures or tie wires. A detent system is provided to retain the slide member in either the open or closed position, while preventing excessive sliding movement which could disengage the slide member from the bracket body.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed June 29, 1993. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 29, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 29, 2015.
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