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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2000
Clifford Dey, Flemington, NJ (US);
Konstantin Ivanov, Bound Brook, NJ (US);
Martin Sobel, Flemington, NJ (US);
Joseph Stanley Siernos, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US);
John Rega, Milltown, NJ (US);
David Roslon, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Raul Quinones, Caguas, PR (US);
Alan Hughieson, Edinburgh, GB;
Mehmet Reyhan, E. Windsor, NJ (US);
Manfred Reiser, Hertmannsweiler, DE;
Bernhard Wachter, Backnang, DE;
Manfred Hild, Schorndorf, DE;
Erwin Bauder, Waiblingen, DE;
Ethicon, Somerville, NJ (US);
Abstract
A machine and process for packaging armed sutures into tray packages. The machine has a frame with a rotatable indexing disc member mounted to the top of frame. A plurality of tool nests are rotatably mounted to the top of the indexing disc. Tray packages mounted in the tool nests are rotated to wind sutures into a suture channel in the packages. A stylus having a front nose member and a rear heel member guides suture into the suture channel.