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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 1995
Filed:
Feb. 07, 1994
William E Anspach, Jr, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);
Eddy H del Rio, Royal Palm Beach, FL (US);
The Anspach Effort, Inc., Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);
Abstract
A pneumatically driven surgical tool is lubricated by a system that includes a lubricator with a reservoir that contains the lubricant. The lubricator also includes an air inlet, an air outlet and a mechanism that mixes lubricant from the reservoir with air flowing from the air inlet to the air outlet. A first conduit connects the lubricator air outlet to the surgical tool and a second conduit is coupled to an exhaust port of the surgical tool. The second conduit is connected to an air inlet opening of a separator that has a mechanism for extracting lubricant from the air flow through the air inlet opening. The lubricant extracted by the separator is fed through a third conduit to the lubricator reservoir thereby recycling the lubricant.