Suture winding machine, suture tray package, and method of winding sutures

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6463719
APP PUB NO 20020069617A1
SERIAL NO

09736007

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A machine and process for packaging armed sutures into tray packages. The machine has a frame with a rotatable indexing disc member mounted to the top of frame. A plurality of tool nests are rotatably mounted to the top of the indexing disc. Tray packages mounted in the tool nests are rotated to wind sutures into a suture channel in the packages. A stylus having a front nose member and a rear heel member guides suture into the suture channel.

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ETHICON INC1000 ROUTE 202 RARITAN NJ 08869

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bauder, Erwin Waiblingen, DE 4 444
Dey, Clifford Flemington, NJ 16 165
Hild, Manfred Schorndorf, DE 7 506
Hughieson, Alan Edinburgh, GB 1 78
Ivanov, Konstantin Bound Brook, NJ 30 2018
Quinones, Raul Caguas, PR 1 78
Rega, John Milltown, NJ 3 407
Reiser, Manfred Hertmannsweiler, DE 11 574
Reyhan, Mehmet E. Windsor, NJ 13 455
Roslon, David Hillsborough, NJ 1 78
Siernos, Joseph Stanley Whitehouse Station, NJ 7 217
Sobel, Martin Flemington, NJ 24 866
Wachter, Bernhard Backnang, DE 1 78

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