SURGICAL CLIP AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING THE SAME

摘要

The present invention relates to a surgical clip (10) for occluding the flow of blood through a blood vessel, artery or vein. The clip (10) formed with longitudinal and transverse or lateral notches to prevent both longitudinal and lateral slippage of the clip (10) with respect to the vessel. The clip (10) is also provided with coined front legs (12) to assist in deformation about a vessel and to further provide a self aligning feature when the clips are arranged in an abutting, forward facing row. The apparatus of the present invention forms the foregoing described clip (10) and does so in a symmetrical way to provide a clip (10) with a uniform stock length.