US 2014/0228893 A1 · BONE PLATE POSITIONING SCAFFOLD

Abstract

A device to maintain temporary engagement with a bone plate and a bone, the device comprising a first biased appendage positioned opposite a second biased appendage, the first and second biased appendages including an arcuate vertical profile that partially defines an interior region; a platform concurrently coupled to the first and second biased appendages, the platform also partially defining the interior region, the platform including a through hole open to the interior region; a first tab extending from at least one of the first biased appendage, the second biased appendage, and the platform, the first tab extending into the interior region and adapted to engage a bone plate; a first arcuate flange mounted to a distal portion of the platform; and a second arcuate flange mounted to a proximal portion of the platform.

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Dependent claims

A device to maintain temporary engagement with a bone plate and a bone, the device comprising:

a first biased appendage positioned opposite a second biased appendage, the first and second biased appendages including an arcuate vertical profile that partially defines an interior region;
a platform concurrently coupled to the first and second biased appendages, the platform also partially defining the interior region, the platform including a through hole open to the interior region;
a first tab extending from at least one of the first biased appendage, the second biased appendage, and the platform, the first tab extending into the interior region and adapted to engage a bone plate;
a first arcuate flange mounted to a distal portion of the platform;
and
a second arcuate flange mounted to a proximal portion of the platform.

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A device to maintain temporary engagement with a bone plate and a bone, the device comprising:

a first biased appendage having a vertical arcuate profile that bows outward in a medial direction;
a second biased appendage positioned opposite the first biased appendage, the second biased appendage having a vertical arcuate profile that bows outward in a lateral direction, opposite the medial direction;
a platform concurrently coupled to the first and second biased appendages, the platform cooperates with the first biased appendage and the second biased appendage to partially define an interior region, the platform including an oblong through hole open to the interior region;
a first arcuate flange mounted to a distal portion of the platform;
and
a second arcuate flange mounted to a proximal portion of the platform.
wherein at least one of the first biased appendage, the second biased appendage, and the platform includes a K-wire hole extending therethrough.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Bone plate positioning scaffold

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Bone plate positioning scaffold

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Abstract

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