Structure for attachment of buttress material to anvils and cartridges of surgical staplers
AssigneeTyco Healthcare Group LP
InventorErnie Aranyi
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Abstract
A surgical stapler is provided having a pair of jaws including a staple containing cartridge and an anvil. Buttress material is releasable affixed to the staple containing cartridge and the anvil. One of the jaws includes a pair of longitudinal projections at a first end of the jaw and configured to frictionally engage corresponding slots in a first end the buttress material. One of the jaws includes a post at a second end of the jaw. The buttress material includes a hole in a second end of the buttress material for receipt of the post. A buttress material including at least one aperture for receipt of the at least one projection at a first end of jaws and a tab configured to engage the at least one jaw at a second end thereof is also provided.
Claims14
An end effector of a surgical stapler, comprising:
- a pair of jaws including a staple cartridge and an anvil, at least one of the jaws including at least one projection extending longitudinally at a first end of the at least one of the jaws and a groove positioned at a second end thereof;
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- a buttress material releasably affixed to the at least one jaw, the buttress material including at least one aperture at a proximal end for receipt of the least one projection and a tab at a distal end configured to engage the groove.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.