Suture winding machine, suture tray package, and method of winding sutures

US6463719B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ethicon, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Clifford Dey · Flemington, US
• Konstantin Ivanov · Edison, US
• Martin Sobel · Flemington, US
• Joseph Siernos · Whitehouse Station, US
• John Rega · Milltown, US
• David Roslon · Fryeburg, US
• Raul David Quinones · Caguas, US
• Alan Hughieson · Edinburgh, GB
• Mehmet Reyhan · Plainsboro, US
• Manfred Reiser · Winnenden, DE
• Bernhard Wachter · Backnang, DE
• Manfred Hild · Schorndorf, DE
• Erwin Bauder · Waiblingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 13, 2000
• Grant date: Oct 15, 2002
• Expiry date: Apr 3, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B2017/06157
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A machine and process for packaging armed sutures into tray packages. The machine has a frame with a rotatable indexing disc member mounted to the top of frame. A plurality of tool nests are rotatably mounted to the top of the indexing disc. Tray packages mounted in the tool nests are rotated to wind sutures into a suture channel in the packages. A stylus having a front nose member and a rear heel member guides suture into the suture channel.