An anterior cervical plating system for securing multiple bone segments relative to each other includes a plate member having multiple pairs of nodes. The switching system must be fashioned in this case such that it recognizes the special dial signal and, upon its arrival, immediately initiates a forwarding to the data terminal network terminal. An outer jacket surrounds the inner container and is made of grade bars of metal or sheet metal. The swivel axes of the disks are eccentric relative to the axes of the sections to reduce the space between the disks in their closed position, when the sections are connected.