Articulating endoscopic surgical clip applier

An apparatus for application of surgical clips to body tissue, the apparatus comprising:

• a handle assembly including:
• a drive assembly;
• and
• a trigger operatively connected to the drive assembly;
• and
• a shaft assembly extending from the handle assembly, the shaft assembly including:
• an articulating neck assembly;
• and
• an end effector assembly supported on a distal end of the articulating neck assembly and being configured to form a surgical clip in place on the body tissue, the end effector including:
• a plurality of clips loaded therein;
• and
• jaws supported at a distal end of the end effector, wherein the jaws are configured to serially receive and form, a single clip at a time, of the plurality of clips;
• wherein a single complete actuation of the trigger loads a single clip of the plurality of clips into the jaws and forms the single clip.