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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2019
Zimmer Biomet Cmf and Thoracic, Llc, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Saddy Garcia, St. Augustine, FL (US);
James Licht, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Myles Tonkinson, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Kerwin Suarez, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Lawrence Jene Chadwell, Yoder, IN (US);
Ryan N Luby, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (US);
Nicolai Ussin, Saint John's, FL (US);
Rachel Hale, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Brian Lamothe, Wallingford, CT (US);
Zimmer Biomet CMF and Thoracic, LLC, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Abstract
A fastener cartridge can be used with a shaft of a tool during an orthopedic procedure. The fastener cartridge can have a main housing that can be attached to fastener housing including a fastener chamber and a backstop component. The fastener chamber includes a plurality of non-flexible tabs and the backstop component includes a plurality of resiliently flexible tabs. The fastener housing is configured to include a plurality of fasteners that are arranged therein such that the longitudinal axes of the fastener chamber and the plurality of fasteners are collinear. The plurality non-flexible tabs prevent one of the fasteners from inadvertently passing entirely out of an outlet of the fastener chamber and the plurality of resiliently flexible tabs allow the fasteners to move axially in the first direction and restrict movement of the fasteners in a second direction opposite the first direction.