Patent ID: 9511425
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: A61C,B23C,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. The combination of a milling machine that mills from a work piece a dental prosthesis and a jig device that holds the work piece during milling in a manner that enables first and second opposed sides of the work piece to be milled, said milling machine including a planar tabletop to which the jig device is mounted in a predetermined location so the jig device and milling machine are in an exact spatial relationship to enable the milling machine to precisely mill the dental prosthesis from the work piece first milling one side of the work piece and then the other side of the work piece, said jig device being configured to be inverted and returned to the same predetermined location to mill the second side of the work piece after milling the first side of the work piece, said jig device and milling machine including interactive elements that engage so that the jig device can be repeatedly inverted, positioning the jig device at the same predetermined location after each inverting of the jig device.