Surgical stapling instrument

Details Surgical stapling instrument Surgical stapling instrument

1975-05-08

1976-08-17

Custer, Jr, Granville Y.

Elongated-member-driving apparatus

With means to assemble plural pieces of work

227121, 227129, B25C 502

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RE0289329

ABSTRACT:
A surgical stapling instrument for applying sterilized staples to the disunited skin or fascia of a patient in order to effect a joining of the skin or fascia. The instrument is adapted to associate with a staple-carrying cartridge having a plurality of staples therein. The instrument is manually powered and includes a nose portion rotatably mounted in a hand-held main body portion and adapted to mount the staple-carrying cartridge so that the stapling angle can be varied without rotating the hand-held portion of the stapler. A clutch means is provided for ensuring that the staple-advancing drive means of the instrument is only activated once per stapling operation. The instrument is further provided with means for preventing the insertion of a fresh staple-carrying cartridge until the instrument is in the readiness position for a driving stroke, and means for maintaining the unloaded instrument in its readiness position until equipped with a cartridge.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2275548 (1942-03-01), Olsen
patent: 2801415 (1957-08-01), Jenny
patent: 3618842 (1971-11-01), Bryan

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