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Article: Swedish Inventors Develop Patient Chair Calf Rest
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 23, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Hans Lingegard of Eslov, Sweden, and Bo Persson of Loddekopinge, Sweden, have developed a calf rest for a patient chair.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A calf rest is provided for a patient chair. The calf rest may comprise a plate-shaped calf rest pad and a mounting is be mounted on the patient chair by means of a joint arrangement. The joint arrangement may be designed so that the calf rest pad is movable between an inactive moved-away end position, in which the extent of the calf rest pad is substantially parallel to one side of the patient chair and the calf rest pad can be positioned close to the patient chair, and a second active end ...