A - Human Necessities – 61 – B
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A - Human Necessities
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A61B 17/04 (2006.01) A61B 17/068 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1112971
SURGICAL STAPLING INSTRUMENT ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A surgical stapling instrument for forming and implanting a staple in the skin or fascia of a patient to close a wound or incision therein. The surgical stapling instrument is intended to be used with a staple carrying cartridge of the type taught in U.S. Patent 4,043,504 and characterized by a staple feeding track containing a stack of staples, a parallel staple forming track, a longitudinally shiftable feeder actuator operative to cause the bottommost staple of the stack to be shifted from the staple feeding track to the stapling forming track and a longiduinally shiftable staple former to implant the staple and form it about an anvil mounted on the instru- ment. The surgical stapling instrument has a handle portion and a nose portion. The nose portion carries the instrument anvil and releasably supports the surgical staple carrying cartridge. The nose portion also mounts a longitudinally shiftable feeder block operatively connected to the cartridge feeder actuator and a longitudinally shiftable driver operatively connected to the cartridge staple former. A trigger is mounted in the handle portion and is operatively connected to the driver to shift the driver to cause the cartridge staple former to form and implant a staple. A feeder pawl causes the feeder block to travel with the driver during the driver's initial travel to operate the cartridge feeder actuator to provide a staple for the cartridge staple former to implant and form.
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Senco Products Inc.
Smart & Biggar
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