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US3559961A
US3559961A US753178A US3559961DA US3559961A US 3559961 A US3559961 A US 3559961A US 753178 A US753178 A US 753178A US 3559961D A US3559961D A US 3559961DA US 3559961 A US3559961 A US 3559961A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61C—DENTISTRY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE
    • A61C5/00—Filling or capping teeth
    • A61C5/60—Devices specially adapted for pressing or mixing capping or filling materials, e.g. amalgam presses
    • A61C5/68—Mixing dental material components for immediate application to a site to be restored, e.g. a tooth cavity
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F33/00—Other mixers; Mixing plants; Combinations of mixers
    • B01F33/70—Mixers specially adapted for working at sub- or super-atmospheric pressure, e.g. combined with de-foaming
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    • A61C19/007—Dust removing devices on working places in dental laboratories, e.g. working by suction
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  • the invention relates to an apparatus and a method for the production of dental mixtures from a pulverous material and a material in a liquid state, for example a so-called alloy" and mercury respectively for the production of amalgam, and pulverous materials and materials in a liquid state for the production of various dental cements.
  • the dental amalgams used by the dentists today are produced according to international specifications and standard prescriptions.
  • the basic materials of amalgam are file dust of a silver alloy and other metals, so-called alloys, and chemically clean mercury. These two components are mixed by the dentist either through manual mixing in a mortar by means of a pestle or as is more and more usual in a capsule by means of electrically driven shaker apparatuses, so-called amalgamators, which capsule consists of two dismountable halves and in which prescribed amounts of an alloy and mercury are inserted.
  • the temporarily plastic compound obtained after the mixing is then packed under pressure a portion at a time in the bored up cavity of a tooth so that excess mercury is removed and an amalgam as homogeneous as possible which fills out all parts of the cavity is obtained in the cavity as a final product.
  • the object of the present invention is to produce mixtures for tooth stopping such as amalgam mixtures and different cements which are essentially poorer in air and thus in porosities that the hitherto used mixtures of this kind.
  • the object according to the invention is reached by means of an apparatus and a method, wherein the two materials to be mixed in pulverous and liquid states respectively, i.e. especially socalled alloys and mercury respectively, are placed in a chamber which is evacuated down to the lowest practically available value by means of a pump connected to the chamber, so that the powder is substantially removed from air and the two materials are not until then mixed together in the evacuated chamber, preferably by shaking the chamber or by means of a spatula inserted in an airtight manner through the wall of the chamber.
  • FIG. 1 shows schematically a chamber in the form of a capsule having an output to a vacuum pump, which chamber is in tended to be attached to a shaker apparatus or a so-called amalgamator.
  • FIG. 2 shows schematically a chamber having a transparent cover with a spatula inserted airtightly through a diaphragm in the wall of the chamber.
  • the capsule shown in FIG. 1 consists of two parts 1, 2, and has an output 3 to a vacuum pump (not shown) in part 1.
  • a vacuum pump (not shown) in part 1.
  • the alloy and mercury are inserted into it by screwing off the cover or part 1.
  • the cover 1 is put on again and the capsule is attached to the shaker apparatus, whereupon the output 3 is connected e.g. by means of a flexible tube to a vacuum pump.
  • the pump is started and when the pressure in the capsule can be read by means of a pertaining pressure gauge (not shown) to e.g. a few mm.
  • the shaking is started for example with a frequency of about 3,000 cycles per minute, the pump being operating during the whole shaking or mixing operation.
  • the shaker apparatus After a suitable time, which is determined empirically, the shaker apparatus is stopped, air is let into the capsule and the same is removed from the shaker apparatus. Then the tube to the air pump is disengaged from the output 3 and the cover 1 is screwed ofi, whereupon the amalgam mixture is withdrawn and is ready for use.
  • the chamber according to FIG. 2 consists of a bottom part 4 and a plexiglass cover 5.
  • the wall of the plexiglass cover comprises an airtightly connected diaphragm 6 through which is airtightly inserted a spatula 7 for stirring the mixture components consisting of e.g. different dental cements such as phosphate cement, silicate cement, zinc oxide-eugenol cement etc. and lying on a glass plate 8.
  • the cover has an output 9 to a vacuum pump (not shown).
  • the chamber is first evacuated to a suitable pressure, e.g. a few mm. Hg, after the pulverous and liquid components to be mixed have been put upon the glass plate 8.
  • the materials are thereafter mixed by means of the spatula 7 while the pump is operating.
  • the cover is removed and the prepared mixture can be removed.
  • Apparatus for the production of dental mixtures from a pulverous material and a material in a liquid state which apparatus comprises a chamber for the pulverous and liquid materials respectively, wherein the chamber has an output which is connectable to a vacuum pump for evacuation of the chamber before the mixing of the materials is started, said chamber being provided with or being connectable to means for carrying through the mixing, and wherein said chamber consists of a bottom part with a detachable transparent cover and comprises a plate for introduction of the two materials before the evacuation, a spatula being airtightly inserted into said chamber through an airtightly closing diaphragm in the cover for mixing the two materials after evacuation of air from said chamber.

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US5121990A (en) * 1985-12-23 1992-06-16 Jacques Guiet Device for the preparation of a paste
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