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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 1983
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Anton Banko, Bronx, NY (US);
Assignee:
Surgical Design Corp., Long Island City, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128305 ;
Abstract
A surgical instrument for removing objects from the body of a human or animal in vitro in which a hook type implement is utilized to grasp a portion of the object to be removed and to bring it into a relationship with a cutting surface of another portion of the instrument to provide a combined crushing and cutting action. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, suction pressure and irrigation fluid is supplied through the instrument with the cut material being removed from the area by the suction pressure.