Flexible composite suture having a tandem linkage

• US 3,311,110 A
• Filed: 07/15/1964
• Issued: 03/28/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: David Kaufman, Glick, Arthur, Sol Singerman
• Original Assignee: David Kaufman, Glick, Arthur, Sol Singerman
• Inventors: Singerman, Sol, Kaufman, David, Glick, Arthur
• Application Number:
  US04/382,877
• Time in Patent Office: 986 Days
• US Class Current: 606/226
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/06004 Means for attaching suture to needle tipping A61B17/06195; connecting wire to other metallic objects B21F15/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/06166 Sutures suture materials A61L17/00; manufacture of artificial threads D01D; treatment of threads D06M
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/06028 by means of a cylindrical longitudinal blind bore machined at the suture-receiving end of the needle, e.g. opposite to needle tip
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49917 by necking in cup or tube wall
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49927 Hollow body is axially joined cup or tube
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49931 Joined to overlapping ends of plural rods

Claims

1. A NEEDLED SURGICAL SUTURE COMPRISING:

(A) A FLEXIBLE SUTURE LEADER, HAVING A FRONT AND BACK END, (B) AN EYELESS SURGICAL NEEDLE, HAVING INSERTED AND CRIMPED IN THE BUTT END THEREOF THE FRONT END OF SAID FLEXIBLE SUTURE LEADER, (C) A STIFF, RELATIVELY BRITTLE, METALLIC SURGICAL SUTURE, HAVING A DIAMETER OF AT LEAST 0.006 INCH, HAVING A FRONT AND BACK END, (D) A CONNECTOR SLEVE CRIMPED TO AND JOINING THE BACK END OF SAID FLEXIBLE SUTURE LEADER TO THE FRONT END OF SAID SUTURE, (E) THE SAID LEADER HAVING SUCH LENGTH THAT THE EXPOSED PORTION BETWEEN SAID NEEDLE AND SAID SLEEVE IS ABOUT 1/8 INCH, AND THE ORDER BEING THE NEEDLE, THE LEADER, THE CONNECTOR, AND THEN THE SUTURE.