W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.

Michael S Winterling

Edwin G Dauber

Sherif A Eskaros

William P Mortimer, Jr

Douglas B McKenna

Deborah W Bell

Joseph J DiPietro, Jr

Samuel M Date

Mary Jo Russell

Jared G Ragone

An apparatus for supplying surgical buttress material to a surgical stapler is provided. The apparatus has a pivotable area for attaching surgical buttress material. The apparatus may also have an adhesive and a release liner disposed over the buttress material.

Apparatus for supplying surgical staple line reinforcement

A surgical staple line reinforcement is provided for use with a variety of surgical staplers to protect against tissue damage from surgical staples. The surgical staple line reinforcement is made up of a tubular structure of bio-implantable material with one or more stiffening members attached to or integrated within the tubular structure to resist, prevent or inhibit movement, rotation, or longitudinal compression of the tubular structure.

Surgical staple line reinforcements

The present invention is an improved sorbent filter for use in both particulate filtration and absorption of gaseous contaminants in a variety of applications, such as for filtration in a computer disk drive. The filter of the present invention provides previously unavailable levels of combined particulate filtration and contaminant sorption while being capable of ready reconditioning (such as through washing with D.I. water).

Nonparticulating adsorbent recirculating filter

A compact sorbent filter for selectively sorbing contaminants and method of removing contamination from an enclosure with a filter is disclosed. The filter comprises a sorbent core including contaminant adsorbing material therein, an outer protective cover wrapped around the inner sorbent core so as to completely contain the sorbent core, with the exposed end(s) of the core being capped so as to encapsulate the sorbent core present within the filter while not limiting the amount of material contained therein. A sorbing filter is placed within an enclosure to remove gaseous contamination therein. The filter is particularly suitable for use in a computer disk drive or similar enclosure where out-gassing contamination may be a problem.

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Newark, DE, United States of America

Michael S Winterling