Surgery – Instruments – Cutting – puncturing or piercing
Patent
1996-06-21
1997-09-23
Dawson, Glenn
Surgery
Instruments
Cutting, puncturing or piercing
206471, A61B 1734
Patent
active
056699298
ABSTRACT:
An integral ear piercing system minimizes the risk of deleterious results (such as infection) and reduces the potential for trapping and/or pinching flesh during the piercing process between the earring stud post and the earring clutch flange. An earring stud post having a sloped stop prevents the trapping and/or pinching of adjacent flesh between the earring stud post and the flange of the earring clutch during the piercing process. The earring stud is held in a sterile condition inside a blister pak by a supporting base that allows manipulation of the earring ornaments without direct manual contact with the ornaments. The supporting base may be color coded to match an interchangeable earring stud holder driven by a stud gun. Several interchangeable earring stud holders may be used in the stud gun, the earring stud holders sized to match different sizes of earring stud heads. Such holders may be color coded to the supporting base and an adapter clip, the color indicating the size of the earring stud head. The stud gun end may resiliently address ear tissue or the like held between it and a second jaw by means of a spring. By engaging a stud-clutch pair, the earring stud gun may drive the earring stud post through intervening tissue to engage the earring clutch. After the piercing process, the pierced earring and clutch are readily disengaged by the stud gun to perform the same operation again on the other ear.
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