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US 2013/0153629 A1Published application
Shipping Wedge with Lockout
AssigneeCovidien LP
InventorStanislaw Kostrzewski
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Abstract
A shipping wedge for use with a surgical instrument includes a base configured to be detachably secured with a body portion of the surgical instrument, a blocking member depending from the base and engageable with a movable operative member of the surgical instrument, and a locking member depending from the base and engageable with a lockout mechanism of the surgical instrument.
Claims17
A shipping wedge for use with a surgical instrument having a body portion, the shipping wedge comprising:
- a base configured to be detachably secured with the body portion of the surgical instrument;
- a blocking member depending from the base and engageable with a movable operative member of the surgical instrument;
- and
- a locking member depending from the base and engageable with a lockout mechanism of the surgical instrument.
1 more element
A surgical instrument comprising:
- an elongate member;
- a loading unit detachably coupled to the elongate member, the loading unit including:
- a body portion;
- a movable operative device disposed in the body portion;
- and
- a lockout mechanism including a locking plate movably mounted to the body portion, the locking plate movable between a locked position and an unlocked position;
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- a removable safety device including:
- a blocking member engageable with the movable operative device;
- and
- a lockout member engageable with the locking plate, wherein the removable safety device is locked to the body portion of the loading unit when the locking plate is in the locked position and is unlocked for removal from the body portion when the locking plate is in the unlocked position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.