Guide wire tip shaping tool and method

Details Guide wire tip shaping tool and method Guide wire tip shaping tool and method

1986-08-25

1988-01-05

Spruill, Robert L.

Metal deforming

By relatively movable offset tool-faces

With tool motion in fixed path

72383, 72458, 140106, B21F 100

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047167572

ABSTRACT:
Tool and method for bending of shaping the tips of angioplasty guide wires. The tool has two relatively rigid body sections joined together by a relatively flexible hinge, with a flexible tube extending across the hinge for holding the tip of the wire to be bent. The body sections are folded together about the hinge to bend the wire, and the flexible tube tends to form a kink in the wire which helps the wire to retain the shape to which it is bent. Stops limit the movement of the body sections and prevent overbending of the wire.

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