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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2014
Ethicon Endo-surgery, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Christopher J. Hess, Cincinnati, OH (US);
William B. Weisenburgh, II, Maineville, OH (US);
Jerome R. Morgan, Cincinnati, OH (US);
James W. Voegele, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Hillsboro, OH (US);
Joshua R. Uth, Mason, OH (US);
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A staple cartridge assembly includes a cartridge body. The cartridge body includes a deck and a plurality of staples deployable into tissue. The staple cartridge assembly also includes a buttressing member removably attached to the deck and a firing member movable relative to the cartridge body during a firing stroke to deploy the plurality of staples into the tissue, wherein the buttressing member is completely removed from the deck as a result of the firing stroke.