Machine for the automated packaging of needles and attached sutures

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5983601
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09020084

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A machine and a method for the automated packaging of armed sutures or; in effect, surgical needles having sutures attached thereto and, more particularly, an automated machine for the high-speed individualized packaging of single or individual surgical needles each having an attached suture into a tray and detachable cover providing a suture package utilized for the packaging of the individual or single needles and attached sutures. Additionally, the automated packaging machine incorporates operative mechanism adapted to wind the sutures into a peripheral channel of the tray and facilitating the attachment of the cover to the tray which contains the single needle and attached wound suture, and which cover concurrently constitutes a product-identifying label as a component of the tray, and upon removal of the cover enables a user to gain access to the contents of the tray; in essence, the armed suture.

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  • ETHICON, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Blanch, John F Tinton Falls, NJ 26 742
Branco, Richard Paul Collegeville, PA 6 211
Cafone, Matthew Edgewater Park, NJ 3 134
Daniele, Robert A Flemington, NJ 25 1284
Demarest, David D Parsippany, NJ 27 888
Esteves, Anthony Somerville, NJ 28 1351
Hodulik, Michael G Dunellen, NJ 13 389
Reinemuth, George Horst Glen Mills, PA 6 211
Shaw, Teresa M Lawrenceville, NJ 5 158
Smith, William F Ringoes, NJ 46 689

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