US 2022/0266502 A1 · PROCESS OF CHANGING CROSS SECTIONAL SHAPE WITHIN A TEXTILE

Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices for changing cross-sectional sizes and/or shapes of flat braided sutures and the resulting constructs are disclosed. The flat braided sutures can have a textile first cross-sectional shape that can be changed to a textile second cross-sectional shape. The systems can have a heater and a die. The flat braided sutures can be movable through the heater and the die. When the flat braided sutures are in the heater, the flat braided sutures can be heatable from a textile first temperature to a textile second temperature greater than the textile first temperature. When the flat braided sutures are at the textile second temperature, the textile first cross-sectional shape can be changeable to the textile second cross-sectional shape.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A textile shaper comprising:

a textile having a textile first cross-sectional shape and a textile second cross-sectional shape;
a heater;
and
a die,
wherein the textile is moveable through the heater and the die,
wherein when the textile is in the heater, the textile has the textile first cross-sectional shape, and wherein when the textile is in the die, the textile has the textile second cross-sectional shape.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/653,249Filed 2 Mar 2022

Priority

22 Jul 2016

Published

25 Aug 2022

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification24 codes

B29C 55/30
Shaping by stretching, e.g. drawing through a die; Apparatus therefor: drawing through a die
A61B 17/06166
Needles ; Sutures; Needle-suture combinations; Holders or packages for needles or suture materials: sutures
A61L 17/14
Materials for surgical sutures or for ligaturing blood vessels ; Materials for prostheses or catheters: post-treatment to improve physical properties
D02J 1/06
Modifying the structure or properties resulting from a particular structure; Modifying, retaining, or restoring the physical form or…: imparting…

Family

Application62/365,467Us provisional application · filed 22 Jul 2016

Application16/254,414Division · filed 22 Jan 2019

Application17/653,249Division

Application16/254,414Continuation in part

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Process of changing cross sectional shape within a textile

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Process of changing cross sectional shape within a textile

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Abstract

Claims13