United States Patent m
Phillips
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US005383879A
Patent Number:
Date of Patent:
Appl. No.: PCT Filed: PCT No.: § 371 Date: § 102(e) Date:
915,806
Jan. 22,1990
PCT/US90/00479
Jan. 15,1993
Jan. 15,1993
Int CI.6 A61B 17/56
U.S. a 606/86; 604/309
Field of Search 606/86, 92, 93;
604/289, 293, 290, 304, 309
References Cited
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737,066 8/1903 Bonar .
932,388 8/1909 Hartsock .
1,852,114 4/1932 Green .
2,057,500 10/1936 O'Connor .
FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
1265013 1/1990 Canada 606/86
2834801 2/1980 Germany .
862949 9/1981 U.S.S.R 604/290
Primary Examiner—Tamara L. Graysay
Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Merchant, Gould, Smith,
Welter & Schmidt
[57] ABSTRACT
An applicator for-applying bone wax to bone tissue in which a layer of bone wax covers selected surface portions of a pattie of surgical fibre, and a method of applying bone wax from an applicator having a layer of bone wax covering portions of a pattie wherein the bone wax layer is drawn across the bone to deposit the bone wax, and the deposited bone wax is then molded over the bone tissue with exposed portions of the applicator pattie.
8 Claims, 3 Drawing Sheets
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