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Method of comminuting soft tissue as well as means of performing the method

US5396898A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Sulzer Medizinaltechnik AG · CH

Inventors

Peter Bittmann · Gaggenau, DE
Daniel Nadler · Cambridge, US
Werner Muller-Glauser · Wiesendangen, CH

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 17, 1993
Grant date	Mar 14, 1995
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 17, 2013

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01N1/286
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The method of comminution of soft tissue (4) from animal or human bodies is performed by a mechanism (10) which exhibits a supply vessel (1), cutter member (2) and collector (3) and forms a closure impermeable to germs against the environment The tissue is removed from the body in a sterile environment, and filled into the supply vessel of the opened mechanism. After the supply vessel has been assembled together with the clutter member and the collector into a mechanism ready for operation, by the employment of pressure-exerting means, preferably compressed gas (11'), the tissue is delivered from the supply vessel into the collector, the tissue being comminuted at the same time by the cutter member.

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