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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. 29, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 24, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mathias Heller, Winterthur, CH;
Fernando Suarez, Zürich, CH;
Assignee:
Sulzer Orthopaedie AG, Baar, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/46 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/46 ;
Abstract
The invention shows a filling transfer apparatus for bone cement with a cylindrical, upwardly open mixing container and a filling transfer piston which can be inserted therein, which is removably connected to the sleeve of a cement injector and which has an opening through which the mixed bone cement can be transferred into the sleeve through a pressing down of the filling transfer piston. In this an ejection piston is inserted in the sleeve and has an aperture in the region of the opening for the through-flowing cement which can be closed by a plug (,) after the removal of the cement injector.