Button for surgical applications

US4291698A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Intermedicat GmbH · CH

Inventors

• Heinz Fuchs · Homberg (Efze), DE
• Hans Muller · Sandhausen, DE
• Hildegard Hecht · Homberg (Efze), DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 28, 1979
• Grant date: Sep 29, 1981
• Expiry date: Nov 28, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T24/44752
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A button for surgical applications comprising a disk having a slot which extends to a passage for guiding a thread therethrough within the circumference of the disk, said passage being sealed by a clamping device for clamping the thread firmly in the passage. The clamping device includes a disk segment movable parallel with the disk over the slot and passage to a latched position where its inner marginal part is past the passage thereby bending the thread and holding it by friction and compression.