Surgical device for correction of urinary incontinence

• US 3,384,073 A
• Filed: 04/21/1964
• Issued: 05/21/1968
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Winkle Jr Walton Van
• Original Assignee: Winkle Jr Walton Van
• Inventors: WINKLE JR WALTON VAN
• Application Number:
  US04/361,383
• Time in Patent Office: 1,491 Days
• US Class Current: 600/30
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/0045 Support slings
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/0063 Implantable repair or support meshes, e.g. hernia meshes
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/0078 Gender-specific, e.g. different for male and female patients
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/25 Artificial sphincters and devices for controlling urinary incontinence

Claims

1. A SURGICAL PROSTHESIS USEFUL IN THE SURGICAL CORRECTION OF URINARY INCONTINENCE COMPRISING A WOVEN COLLAGEN FABRIC HAVING SEVERAL ROWS OF SLIT-LIKE OPENINGS EXTENDING ACROSS SAID FABRIC, THE OPENINGS IN EACH ROW BEING IN ALIGNMENT WITH EACH OTHER AND PARALLEL TO ONE SET OF THREADS FORMING THE FABRIC;

A PLURALITY OF COLLAGEN TAPES, EACH HAVING A LENGTH SUBSTANTIALLY GREATER THAN THE DISTANCE ACROSS SAID FABRIC, EACH OF SAID TAPES BEING LACED THROUGH THE OPENINGS IN ONE OF SAID ROWS, WHEREBY THE TAPES ARE PARALLEL TO EACH OTHER AND MAY BE MOVED IN A DIRECTION PARALLEL TO SAID ROWS BUT ARE RESTAINED FROM LATERAL MOVEMENT.