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Surgical device

  • US 4,296,751 A
  • Filed: 08/02/1979
  • Issued: 10/27/1981
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/02/1979
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A surgical device, particularly a hemostat, comprisingan applicator having a pair of cooperating jaws provided with anvils and being movable between an open and a closed position;

  • andsupply means for feeding surgical clips to said jaws, said supply means comprising a cartridge including a housing adapted to accommodate a string of clips, means for advancing the string towards the jaws for seriatim insertion of the respectively leading clip of the string between said anvils while the jaws are in said open position so as to become cinched between said anvils when the jaws move to said closed position, and means for retracting all except the respectively leading clip in direction away from said anvils prior to movement of said anvils from said open end towards said closed position, said housing comprising a body having a leading end section and a trailing end section and two substantially parallel tracks both extending between said end sections, said advancing means comprising biasing means for biasing a string of clips in one of said tracks lengthwise of the same towards said leading end section, and said retracting means including a retracting member in the other of said tracks and having a leading portion extending into and moveable in said one track between one position in which said leading portion is disengaged from said clips and permits the respectively leading clip to issue from said leading end section and another position in which said leading portion engages the clip immediately upstream of the leading clip and retracts it, and thereby said string of clips, in direction towards said trailing end section.

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