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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2003
Clifford A. Dey, Riegelsville, PA (US);
Robert J. Cerwin, Pipersville, PA (US);
Thomas J. Zingale, San Angelo, TX (US);
Konstantin Ivanov, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Delfin A. Lorenzo Iglesias, Guaynabo, PR (US);
Manfred Hild, Schorndorf, DE;
Manfred Reiser, Hertmannsweiler, DE;
Bernard Wachter, Backnang, DE;
Ethicon, Inc., 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 the frame. A plurality of tool nests are rotatably mounted to the top of the indexing disc. Tray packages mounted in the toll 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. Channel winding pins in the winding tooling provide for an arranged wind of suture in a suture channel of the tray packages. The machine has an in-line printer and a punching machine for printing and punching paper covers from strips of stock material, which are then mounted to the tray packages.