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Applicator for C-shaped scalp clips

  • US 4,637,395 A
  • Filed: 10/02/1984
  • Issued: 01/20/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/04/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An applicator for C-shaped scalp clips which have two legs joined by a bridge and facing clamping jaws at their free ends, rearwardly projecting application surfaces at the regions where the legs and bridge meet, and laterally projecting edge regions adjoining the application surfaces, comprisingtwo applying instruments movable between first and second positions and positioned to engage the application surfaces of a scalp clip and displace them towards one another for opening said scalp clip when said applying instruments are in said second position,a magazine that holds a plurality of the scalp clips arranged one behind the other, with the free ends of one scalp clip resting against the bridge of the adjacent scalp clip, said magazine being open at the end to which the free ends of the legs of the scalp clips point, and guiding the scalp clips for displacement in the longitudinal direction thereof, andmeans for urging the scalp clips towards the open end of the magazine,said applying instruments in the first position being remote from one another, projecting downwardly and upwardly into the feed path of the scalp clips at said open end such that one of said scalp clips moved by said urging means past said applying instruments abuts thereon with said laterally projecting edge regions adjoining the application surfaces and in the second position being closer together with said instruments abutting on the application surfaces of one of said scalp clips held between them and thereby opening said one scalp clip.

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