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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 05, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
John R Daugherty, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Paul D Diegel, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Bret J Kilgrow, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Assignee:
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ; B65D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
606232 ; 606228 ; 606151 ; 206343 ; 206345 ; 206339 ; 206820 ;
Abstract
A surgical pledget dispensing system wherein a pledget is affixed to at least one other object whereby the pledget is tearably releasable from the at least one other object. Preferably a multiplicity of pledgers are affixed to the at least one other object in a tearably releasable fashion. The at least one other object is preferably at least one runner, a portion of a suture package or at least one other pledget.
Published as:
CA2186501A1; WO9632893A1; AU5561196A; EP0766532A1; US5733308A; JPH10513390A; CA2186501C; EP0766532B1; DE69625660D1; DE69625660T2;