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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2003
Thomas D. Anspach, Jupiter, FL (US);
J. Thomas Roland, Jr., Bronx, NY (US);
Werner Schad, Neuhausen, DE;
Thomas D. Anspach, Jupiter, FL (US);
J. Thomas Roland, Jr., Bronx, NY (US);
Werner Schad, Neuhausen, DE;
The Anspach Effort, Inc., Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);
Abstract
A hand-held directional irrigation tube and a suction tube surgical instrument includes a finger or thumb operated aperture on the suction tube communicating with the lumen thereof that serves to selectively by-pass and connect the suction pump with the surgical site and the irrigation tube being removably supported in a sleeve attached to the suction tube that includes a gear-like member having circumferentially spaced valleys or slots attached to the sleeve cooperating with a projection attached to the irrigation tube so that the surgeon can slide the irrigation tube to disengage the projection and rotate it and re-insert it into another slot in the gear-like member to re-direct the spray of irrigation fluid egressing from the irrigation tube to different locations in the surgical site.