Surgical prosthesis

• US 3,304,557 A
• Filed: 09/28/1965
• Issued: 02/21/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Seymour Polansky
• Original Assignee: Seymour Polansky
• Inventors: Polansky, Seymour
• Application Number:
  US04/502,801
• Time in Patent Office: 511 Days
• US Class Current: 623/1.38
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/06 Blood vessels
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2310/00365 Proteins; Polypeptides; Degradation products thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 27/14 Macromolecular materials
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 27/24 Collagen
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 623/917 Collagen

Claims

1. AS A SURGICAL PROSTHESIS COMPRISING, A TUBE HAVING A WALL FABRICATED OF THREADS OF COLLAGEN ABSORBABLE IN LIVE ANIMAL TISSUE AND THREADS OF OTHER MATERIAL NON-ABSORBABLE IN LIVE ANIMAL TISSUE, AND REINFORCING MEANS LOCATED ESSENTIALLY ON THE OUTER SURFACE OF SAID TUBE AND SPACED INTERMITTENTLY ALONG THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS THEREOF, SAID REINFORCING MEANS COMPRISING NON-ABSORBABLE THREADS CIRCUMFERENTIALLY POSITIONED AROUND SAID TUBE PERPENDICULAR TO SAID LONGITUDINAL AXIS.