Patent · US Expired

Package winding machine

US6804937B2 · kind B2 · utility

30Cited by

33References

11Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Ethicon, Inc. · US

Inventors

Clifford Dey · Flemington, US
Robert J. Cerwin · Wantage, US
Thomas J. Zingale · Pieter Appelplein, US
Konstantin Ivanov · Edison, US
Delfin A. Lorenzo Iglesias · San Juan, US
Manfred Hild · Schorndorf, DE
Manfred Reiser · Winnenden, DE
Bernard Wachter · Kings Point, US

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 13, 2003
Grant date	Oct 19, 2004
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 13, 2023

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61B2017/06142
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

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 the frame. A plurality of tool nests are rotatably mounted to the top of the indexing disc. Tray packages mounted in the toll 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. Channel winding pins in the winding tooling provide for an arranged wind of suture in a suture channel of the tray packages. The machine has an in-line printer and a punching machine for printing and punching paper covers from strips of stock material, which are then mounted to the tray packages.

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