Magazine for C-shaped scalp clips

• US 4,612,932 A
• Filed: 10/02/1984
• Issued: 09/23/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Aesculap-Werke AG Vormals Jetter & Scheerer
• Original Assignee: Aesculap-Werke AG Vormals Jetter & Scheerer
• Inventors: Lutze, Theodor, Kienzle, Karl-Ernst, Caspar, Wolfhard
• Primary Examiner(s): Thaler, Michael H.
• Application Number:
  US06/657,267
• Time in Patent Office: 721 Days
• Field of Search: 128/334 R, 128/334 C, 128/325, 128/326, 128/337, 227/DIG. 1, 206/339, 206/340
• US Class Current: 606/143
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0682 for applying U-shaped staples or clamps, e.g. without a forming anvil

Abstract

A magazine for receiving C-shaped scalp clips having legs connected by a bridge and with facing clamping jaws at their free ends. In order to improve positioning of the scalp clips during displacement along the magazine, the scalp clips are arranged one behind the other in the magazine such that the free ends of one scalp clip rest against the bridge of the adjacent scalp clip, the scalp clips have laterally open recesses in their bridges or the regions where legs and bridge meet and the magazine has guide rails extending along its length and engaging in these recesses.

Claims

1. In combination, C-shaped scalp clips and a magazine for receiving C-shaped scalp clips each of said scalp clips having legs connected via a bridge and with facing clamping jaws at their free ends,

said scalp clips being arranged one behind the other in the magazine such that the free ends of one scalp clip rest against the bridge of the adjacent scalp clip,

said scalp clips having laterally open recesses in their bridges including the regions where legs and bridge meet,

said magazine having guide rails extending along its length and engaging in said recesses, and

each said scalp clip having a bridge that is concave in shape and a convex cross section in the region of the free ends of its legs so that the convex portions of each following scalp clip engages the concave bridge of the preceding scalp clip.

2. The combination as defined in claim 1, wherein the guide rails are formed by the inwardly bent edges of the magazine which is of U-shaped cross section.

3. The combination as defined in claims 1 or 2, wherein a step forming a guide rail is disposed at the point where the bottom of the magazine and the side walls meet, said step projecting into the magazine cross section.