Package for a medical anchor element and suture thread
AssigneeKarl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsKurt Ruffieux, Heiner Kern, Dennis Reichardt, Alexander Siegrist
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Abstract
A package is used for the packaging of an anchor element together with a suture thread which is threaded on the latter. It is proposed to provide the package with an outer casing hermetically closed to the outside, the casing container holder which receives said anchor element and which has a seat for the suture thread already wound on the anchor element.
Claims8
A package with an anchor element, having an approximately cylindrical body, together with suture thread, said anchor element can be introduced together with said suture thread into a bone for a purpose of fixing a tendon, having
- an outer casing hermetically closed off from an outside,
- a holder arranged inside said casing,
- said anchor element being received in said holder,
- a seat for said suture thread,
- said suture thread already threaded on said anchor element,
- wherein said holder is designed as a blank and wherein said blank has at least one flap into which said anchor element is inserted,
- wherein said flap has a predetermined break point,
- wherein said cylindrical body of said anchor element is provided with hooks on its outer face which are design in the manner of annular flanges, and
- wherein the distance between two hooks corresponds approximately to the width of said flap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.