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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:
May. 15, 1990
Filed:
Jan. 10, 1989
James L Phillips, Mattawan, MI (US);
Dale W Richardson, Mattawan, MI (US);
Lawrence M Silverman, Danville, CA (US);
International Research & Development Corporation, Mattawan, MI (US);
Abstract
An electric-knife cleaning device useful in connection with surgery comprising a cleaning head mounted on a laminated base, the bottom lamina of which is a removable pull-off sheet adhered to said base by a tacky adhesive which remains on said base when said pull-off sheet is removed and is then operative to adhere said base to a surface, and the top lamina of which comprises means for mounting said cleaning head on said base, whereby the bottom lamina can be removed and the device adhered to a surface adjacent the situs of the surgery in a position convenient for cleaning the knife during the surgery, is disclosed, as well as a method for its production and use.