Method of using manual mixer
AssigneeMedtronic Holding Company SàRl
InventorsNeil Sasaki, Mollie Benson, Sarah Freesemann, Benjamin Murray, Aj Konnath
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Abstract
A manual mixer serves to facilitate mixing and agitating materials for use during surgery. The manual mixer includes a mixing assembly and an actuation assembly for actuating the mixing assembly. The mixing assembly includes at least a paddle portion and a plunger portion. The plunger portion is simultaneously capable of rotational movement with the paddle portion and movement upwardly or downwardly along the paddle portion. Rotation of the paddle portion serves to facilitate mixing and agitating of the materials, and downward movement of the plunger portion serves to facilitate dispensing of the materials from the manual mixer.
Claims20
A method of mixing and agitating materials using a manual mixer, the method comprising:
- providing the manual mixer having a body portion, a mixing assembly, and an actuation assembly, the body portion defining an interior cavity for receiving at least a portion of the mixing assembly, the mixing assembly including a paddle portion and a plunger portion, a portion of the paddle portion being received within an aperture extending through the plunger portion, the plunger portion being moveable downwardly along the paddle portion, and the actuation assembly being operatively interconnected with the mixing assembly;
- removing the mixing assembly from the interior cavity;
- providing the materials to be mixed and agitated in the interior cavity;
- replacing the mixing assembly in the interior cavity;
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- actuating the actuation assembly to rotate the paddle portion and the plunger portion, and simultaneously move the plunger portion downwardly along the paddle portion within the interior cavity, and to mix and agitate the materials provided in the interior cavity via the rotation of the paddle portion and the plunger portion, and via the downward movement of the plunger portion.
A method of mixing and agitating materials using a manual mixer, the method comprising:
- providing the manual mixer having a body portion, a mixing assembly, and an actuation assembly, the body portion defining an interior cavity for receiving at least a portion of the mixing assembly, the mixing assembly including a paddle portion and a plunger portion, a portion of the paddle portion being received within an aperture extending through the plunger portion, the plunger portion being moveable downwardly along the paddle portion, and the actuation assembly including a transmission and a drive shaft, the transmission including a first gear connected to the paddle portion and a second gear connected to the drive shaft;
- providing the materials to be mixed and agitated in the interior cavity;
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- actuating the actuation assembly to operatively connect the second gear to the first gear via linear movement of the drive shaft from a first position to a second position, to translate the linear movement of the drive shaft from the first position to the second position thereof into rotation the second gear to correspondingly rotate the paddle portion when the first gear and the second gear are operatively connected to one another, to rotate the plunger portion with the rotation of paddle portion, and simultaneously move the plunger portion downwardly along the paddle portion within the interior cavity.
A method of mixing and agitating materials using a manual mixer, the method comprising:
- providing the manual mixer having a body portion, a mixing assembly, and an actuation assembly, the body portion defining an interior cavity for receiving at least a portion of the mixing assembly, the mixing assembly including a paddle portion and a plunger portion, a portion of the paddle portion being received within an aperture extending through the plunger portion, the plunger portion being moveable downwardly along the paddle portion, and the actuation assembly being operatively interconnected with the mixing assembly;
- disassembling the mixing assembly from the body portion and reassembling the mixing assembly to the body portion;
- between disassembling and reassembling, providing the materials to be mixed and agitated in the interior cavity;
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- actuating the actuation assembly to rotate the paddle portion and the plunger portion, and simultaneously move the plunger portion downwardly along the paddle portion within the interior cavity, to mix and agitate the materials provided in the interior cavity via the rotation of the paddle portion and the plunger portion, and via the downward movement of the plunger portion, and to pass a portion of the materials from a first side of the paddle portion to a second side of the paddle portion through at least one opening in the paddle portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.