Cutlery – Cutting tools – Scrapers
Patent
1997-05-23
1999-02-02
Rada, Rinaldi I.
Cutlery
Cutting tools
Scrapers
302796, 30282, 30 904, 30 908, B26B 300
Patent
active
058649530
ABSTRACT:
A cutting tool is described for cutting an encircling band of identification tape from a surgical instrument handle. The tool housing has an elongated guide slot with a cutting blade mounted in the housing on a circumference of the guide slot exposed distally at a distal end of the tool. The channel slot has a circumference to accommodate surgical instrument handles having an arcuate cross-sectional segment having a radius which is equal to or less that the radius of the channel slot circumference. The cutting blade is positioned to be tangent to the surgical instrument handle operatively nested within the guide slot. The blade is also positioned to define a chord of the encircling tape band around the instrument handle nested within the guide slot. In use, the blade cuttingly engages the tape band as the tool is slid along the surgical instrument handle toward the edge of the tape band. The blade cuts a full width of the tape band, exposing a fresh margin of tape to allow complete removal.
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Pryor Sean A.
Rada Rinaldi I.
Scanlan International, Inc.
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