Patent ID: 8876075

Claim:
Apparatus for supporting a medical device, the apparatus comprising: a vertical pillar ( 8 ); several bearing heads ( 3 a , 3 b , 3 c ) which are mountable at the vertical pillar ( 8 ); one or more cantilevers ( 2 , 2 a , 2 b , 2 c ), which are supported at one or more bearing heads; and means ( 4 , 5 ) for mounting two or more bearing heads ( 3 a , 3 b , 3 c ) vertically one below the other; and several shafts ( 4 a , 4 b , 4 c ) corresponding to the several bearing heads ( 3 a , 3 b , 3 c ), respectively, wherein each of the several bearing heads ( 3 a , 3 b , 3 c ) is mounted on the corresponding shaft ( 4 a , 4 b , 4 c ) so as to be rotatable, wherein a top shaft of the several shafts is connected to the vertical pillar and each of the lower shafts ( 4 b , 4 c ) is connected directly to a shaft ( 4 a , 4 b ) arranged above it by means of connecting screws ( 5 a , 5 b , 5 c ) extending vertically from the shaft ( 4 b , 4 c ) and inserting into the shaft ( 4 a , 4 b ) arranged above it wherein each of the several shafts abuts an adjacent shaft; wherein the vertical pillar ( 8 ) is mountable at a ceiling of an operation theatre and that the medical device is an operation theatre lamp.