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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:
Jul. 11, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
William P Warthen, Spartanburg, SC (US);
Assignee:
Milliken Research Corporation, Spartanburg, SC (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B26F / ; B32B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
30140 ; 156251 ; 156515 ; 289 181 ;
Abstract
A device is provided for severing the tails of a knot formed in sutures of a wide variety of cross-sectional dimensions which includes a housing, an electrical heating element forming at least a portion of a notch, guide means operably associated with the heating element and the housing, the guide means functioning to bring the tails of the knot into contact with the heating element and meams for electrically supplying power to the heating element.