摘要 |
1448544 Jointing by stamping ETHICON Inc 28 Feb 1974 [26 Oct 1973] 15233/75 Divided out of 1448543 Heading B3Q [Also in Divisions A5-A6 and D1-D2] A surgical needle 46, Fig. 3, having a drilled hole 47 in its blunt end, is swaged to the end 44 of a surgical suture 12, which may be of silk, nylon, &c., by compressing the blunt end of the needle between an anvil 48 and a hammer 50. Stops 51 and 52, on the hammer and anvil respectively, limit the deformation of the needle, which is received in a depression 49 on the anvil 48. A portion of the finished needle-suture combination is shown in Fig. 10. |