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US 11,684,487 B2Granted
Surgical hammer
AssigneeShukla Medical
InventorsZachary Robert Sweitzer, Nicholas Christopher Keach
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Abstract
A surgical hammer that includes a handle, a shaft extending from the handle and a hammer head connected to the shaft. The hammer head includes a slot extending through the hammer head and in fluid communication with a distal end of the hammer head, a first internal cavity within the hammer head spaced laterally from the slot, and a second internal cavity within the hammer head spaced laterally from the slot.
Claims20
A surgical hammer comprising:
- a handle;
- a shaft extending from the handle;
- and
- a hammer head connected to the shaft, the hammer head including:
- a slot extending through the hammer head and in fluid communication with a distal end of the hammer head, wherein the slot is gradually tapered from the distal end of the hammer head to a proximal end of the slot,
- a bore extending into the hammer head sized to receive the shaft,
- a first internal cavity within the hammer head spaced laterally from the slot, and
- a second internal cavity within the hammer head spaced laterally from the slot, wherein the slot is distal to the bore at a longitudinal midportion of the hammer head, between the first internal cavity and the second internal cavity.
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A surgical hammer comprising:
- a handle;
- a shaft extending from the handle;
- and
- a substantially cylindrical hammer head connected to the shaft about a proximal end and a longitudinal midportion of the hammer head, the hammer head including:
- an elongated tapered slot extending through the hammer head and in fluid communication with a distal end of the hammer head,
- a bore extending into the hammer head sized to receive the shaft,
- a cylindrical first internal cavity within the hammer head spaced laterally from the elongated tapered slot and at least partially filled with metal ball bearings or shot, and
- a cylindrical second internal cavity within the hammer head spaced laterally from the elongated tapered slot and at least partially filled with metal ball bearings or shot, wherein the elongated tapered slot is distal to the bore at the longitudinal midportion of the hammer head, between the cylindrical first internal cavity and the cylindrical second internal cavity.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.