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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 1998
Filed:
May. 06, 1997
Donald D Exline, Carrollton, TX (US);
Dexide, Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Abstract
A surgical sleeve that includes a housing has an opening through which surgical instruments are introduced into the surgical sleeve. A sleeve portion extends from the housing and has an inner diameter coaxial with the opening in the housing. A reducer assembly is removably secured to the housing and includes a rigid seal disc for rotation in a plane transverse to the sleeve portion. A resilient, laminar seal layer is generally coextensive with the seal disc and is disposed between the disc and the housing to sealingly engage a portion of the housing. A plurality of apertures are formed in the seal disc and seal layer and have varying diameters to define seals that are selectively movable, by rotation of the seal disc, over the opening in the housing to seal against exteriors of instruments disposed in the sleeve.