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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Daniel Smith, Manalapan Township, NJ (US);
Bernard M Willis, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Kenneth P Marschke, Jr, Medford, NJ (US);
Barry Littlewood, Harmony, NJ (US);
Vulgens Schoen, Stockton, NJ (US);
Carl Gucker, Branchburg, NJ (US);
Michael Nordmeyer, Neshanic Station, NJ (US);
Thaddeus Miklewicz, Nazareth, PA (US);
Ethicon, Inc., Somerville, NJ (US);
Abstract
A process for manufacturing surgical needles from solid, cylindrical needle blanks. A plurality of needle blanks are cut from a roll of wire and mounted to a flat carrier strip. The carrier strip then indexes each needle blank to a grinding station where an orbital grinding means grinds the distal end of each needle blank into a taper point while the needle blanks are held fixed in the carrier strip.