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US4183431:
Access suture package
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Schmidt, Rolf D.; Mohnton, PA
Theodore, Earl M.; Reading, PA
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| Assignee: |
Sharpoint, Inc., Mohnton, PA
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| Published / Filed: |
1980-01-15
/ 1978-06-09
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| Application Number: |
US1978000914276
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A61B 17/06;
Core:
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IPC-7:
A61L 17/02;
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| ECLA Code: |
A61B17/06P4F; A61B17/06R; K61B17/06P7F;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
206/063.3;
043/057.1;
206/227;
206/382;
Original:
206/063.3;
206/227;
206/382;
043/057.5R;
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| Field of Search: |
206/63.3,227,380,382,383
043/57.5 R
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| Priority Number: |
| 1978-06-09 |
US1978000914276 |
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| Abstract: |
Surgical sutures are protected from damage in shipment and handling by providing holders having foamed plastic shapes that are adapted to receive the point and cutting surfaces of a needle in an edge portion of the foamed plastic shape and retain the suture in a manner so that the suture can be easily removed from the holder without the need for undue manipulation of the holder. The holders may also serve as a support to facilitate the manipulation of the needle or suture by operating room personnel, to organize and provide access to selected lengths of surgical thread, and to provide an identifiable repository for used needles. The foamed plastic protective handling devices of this invention are particularly suitable for use in cooperative relationship with selected packaging materials to permit the storage of needles and sutures under sterile conditions.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Page, M. Richard ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Dixson, Jr., William T.;
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| Family: |
None
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First Claim:
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We claim:
1. A suture package comprising:
- a support element;
- a needle-receiving member mounted on the support element, the needle-receiving member comprising a body of pierceable, nonsloughing material;
- a needle, a portion of which is inserted into a side surface of the needle-receiving member, the thickness dimension of the needle-receiving member being greater than the diameter of the needle;
- a length of surgical thread attached to the needle;
- a wrapping means mounted on the support member, the wrapping means comprising a body having a peripheral wrapping surface; and
- thread-retaining means on the support element for lightly frictionally retaining a portion of the thread, the thread extending from the needle and passing about at least a portion of the peripheral surface of the wrapping member and thence to the thread-retaining means.
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