Patent ID: 11877907
Assignee: nan
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 16:
17. An orthodontic appliance as claimed in claim 16, and wherein the inner elongated rod has a main body having the opposite first and second ends, and an outside facing surface, and wherein the elongated main body of the inner elongated rod is coaxially aligned relative to the longitudinal axis of the outer, cylindrically shaped tube, and further has a length dimension which is greater than about the length dimension of the first intermediate tube, and wherein the elongated main body has an outside diametral dimension as measured at the first end of the elongated main body which is less than the inside diametral dimension of the internal cavity of the second, intermediate tube as measured at the first end of the second intermediate tube, and further the elongated main body of the elongated rod has an outside diametral dimension, when measured at the second end of the elongated main body, and which is less than the inside diametral dimension of the internal cavity of the second, intermediate tube as measured at the second end thereof, and wherein the inner elongated tube has an outside diametral dimension when measured at the first end thereof, and which is less than the inside diametral dimension of the internal cavity of the second, intermediate tube when measured at the first end of the second, intermediate tube, and wherein the inner elongated rod is telescopingly and reciprocally moveable along the given coaxially path of travel relative to each of the outer, cylindrically shaped tube, the first intermediate tube, and the second intermediate tube.