Machine for the automated packaging of needles and attached sutu

Details Machine for the automated packaging of needles and attached sutu Machine for the automated packaging of needles and attached sutu

1998-02-06

1999-11-16

Hail, III, Joseph J.

Package making

Methods

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53118, 53235, 53281, 53297, 53471, 53473, 53485, B65B 6304

Patent

active

059836016

ABSTRACT:
A machine and a method for the automated packaging of armed sutures or; in effect, surgical needles having sutures attached thereto and, more particularly, an automated machine for the high-speed individualized packaging of single or individual surgical needles each having an attached suture into a tray and detachable cover providing a suture package utilized for the packaging of the individual or single needles and attached sutures. Additionally, the automated packaging machine incorporates operative mechanism adapted to wind the sutures into a peripheral channel of the tray and facilitating the attachment of the cover to the tray which contains the single needle and attached wound suture, and which cover concurrently constitutes a product-identifying label as a component of the tray, and upon removal of the cover enables a user to gain access to the contents of the tray; in essence, the armed suture.

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