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US 5,180,053 AGranted
Cantilevered needle park
AssigneeEthicon, Inc.
InventorsJack Cascio, Konstantin Ivanov, Marvin Alpern, Robert Cerwin, Joseph Siernos
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Abstract
A needle park for a package that holds one or more surgical needles and sutures has a generally planar base. A cantilevered arm, fixed at one end and free at its other end, extends above and parallel to the base. A needle is introduced between the free end of the arm and the base and held between the arm and base. A nib that extends from the free end of the arm toward the base secures the needle. The needle park may be molded as part of a one-piece needle and suture package and is well adapted for automatic loading.
Claims11
A needle park for securing a needle, comprising
- a generally planar base,
- an elongated arm that, having a first end secured in a fixed relationship to the base and a second end that is free, extends in a direction generally parallel to the base, and
- a nib that extends toward the base from a point near the free end of the arm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.