Dental apparatus for measuring and evaluating mouth measurements for tooth protheses

Claim 1

DENTAL APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING BITE PATTERNS AND PROTHESES COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A BASE; A LOWER SUPPORT PLATE MOUNTED ON SAID BASE FOR ANGULAR ADJUSTMENT ABOUT A NORMALLY HORIZONTAL AXIS; MEANS OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH SAID BASE AND SAID LOWER SUPPORT PLATE TO RETAIN SAID LOWER SUPPORT PLATE IN ITS ANGULARLY ADJUSTED POSITION; A CALOTTE PLATE LOOSELY SLIDABLE ON SAID LOWER SUPPORT PLATE; A MANDIBLE MODEL FIXEDLY SECURED TO SAID CALOTTE PLATE; AN INTERMEDIATE PLATE SECURED ON SAID MANDIBLE MODEL; AN UPPER SUPPORT SPACED ABOVE SAID LOWER SUPPORT; SUPPORT MEANS MOUNTING SAID UPPER SUPPORT FOR SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICAL ADJUSTMENT RELATIVE TO SAID BASE; AN ARTICULATOR BEAM MOUNTED ON SAID UPPER SUPPORT AND INCLUDING A SUPPORT PORTION ANGULARLY ADJUSTABLE ABOUT A HORIZONTAL AXIS ELEVATED ABOVE SAID BASE; MEANS PROVIDING ADJUSTMENT OF SAID ARTICULATOR BEAM RELATIVE TO SAID UPPER SUPPORT AND PERPENDICULAR TO SAID LAST-NAMED HORIZONTAL AXIS; SAID INTERMEDIATE PLATE PROVIDING A SUPPORT SURFACE FOR ADJUSTMENT OF A MAXILLA MODEL POSITIONED ON THE SUPPORT PORTION OF SAID ARTICULATOR BEAM.