Metal working – Means to assemble or disassemble – Spreading parts apart or separating them from face to face...
Patent
1993-07-12
1995-04-18
Watson, Robert C.
Metal working
Means to assemble or disassemble
Spreading parts apart or separating them from face to face...
29278, B23P 1904
Patent
active
054066840
ABSTRACT:
A sanitary surgical blade removal instrument for removing a disposable blade from the handle of a surgical tool. The instrument consisting of a piece of sheet metal bent at a C-shaped flexible fold to produce an upper portion and a lower portion which extend generally parallel to one another. The upper and lower portions of the sheet metal form the upper and lower portions of a blade gripping and flexing end and the upper and lower portions of a handle end. To use the blade removal instrument, the surgical tool is inserted into the removal instrument so that the neck of the surgical tool rests within a lower notch in a lower ridge of the lower portion of the removal instrument such that the lower ridge on either side of the lower notch engages the underneath side of the disposable blade. The user squeezes the upper and lower portions of the handle of the removal instrument, keeping his hand at a safe distance from the sharp contaminated blade. The handle of the surgical tool may then be pulled away from the blade while the blade remains securely gripped in the gripping section of the removal instrument. The blade may then be disposed of safely with the hand of the user safely positioned on the handle of the instrument, away from the contaminated sharp blade. Finally, the removal instrument may be sterilized so the removal instrument may be reused.
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