Metal working – Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for... – Separate tool stations for selective or successive operation...
Patent
1994-01-13
1995-08-08
Briggs, William
Metal working
Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for...
Separate tool stations for selective or successive operation...
29517, 72423, 163 1, 163 5, B23P 2300, B21G 102
Patent
active
054387469
ABSTRACT:
An automated machine for attaching a suture to a surgical needle comprises a first apparatus located at a first predetermined location for sorting a plurality of randomly oriented needles and orienting each needle for automatic handling at a first predetermined location, each of the needles having a suture receiving opening formed therein. A second apparatus located at a second predetermined location is provided for automatically cutting an indefinite length of suture material to a definite length suture strand and for automatically inserting an end of the definite length suture strand into the suture receiving opening formed in the needle. Also provided is a third apparatus for swaging the needle to close the suture receiving opening about the suture to secure said suture thereto and form therefrom a needle and suture assembly. An indexing device automatically receives each individual needle in a predetermined orientation at the first predetermined location and conveys the needle for sequential processing from the first to the second locations to form the needle-suture assembly.
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Blanch John F.
Demarest David
Duncan Robert B.
Briggs William
Ciamporcero, Jr. Audley A.
Ethicon Inc.
Skula E. Richard
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