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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2015
Stryker Ireland, Ltd., Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Julie Motherway, County Cork, IE;
Kevin O'Flynn, County Dublin, IE;
STRYKER IRELAND, LTD, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Abstract
A surgical blade () designed for use with an acetabular cup remover (). The blade includes a body () from which teeth () extend distally forward. The body and teeth are disposed around the section of a sphere. On each side of the longitudinal axis of the blade body there is an outer tooth and at least two inner teeth. The teeth are further shaped so that one each side of the longitudinal axis through the blade body there are at least two adjacent inner teeth that have rake surfaces located along axes that, extending from the outer surface of the blade body to the inner surface of the blade body, do not intersect.