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Stapling head feature for a surgical stapler

Granted 6 Nov 2018 · no office action yet

Application
29/594,335
filed 17 Feb 2017
Publication
Not published
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US D833010
granted 6 Nov 2018

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a top perspective view of…

FIG. 1 is a top perspective view of a stapling head feature for a surgical stapler, showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a bottom perspective view of the stapling head feature for a surgical stapler of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 3 is a front elevational view of the stapling head feature for a surgical stapler of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 4 is a rear elevational view of the stapling head feature for a surgical stapler of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 5 is a left elevational view of the stapling head feature for a surgical stapler of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 6 is a right elevational view of the stapling head feature a surgical stapler of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 7 is a top plan view of the stapling head feature for a surgical stapler of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 8 is a bottom plan view of the stapling head feature for a surgical stapler of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 9 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the stapling head feature for a surgical stapler of FIG. 1 , taken along line 9 - 9 of FIG. 7 ; and,

FIG. 10 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the stapling head feature for a surgical stapler of FIG. 1 , taken along line 10 - 10 of FIG. 7 .

The evenly-spaced broken lines in the drawings are included for purpose of illustrating portions of the staple head feature for a surgical stapler that form no part of the claimed design. The dot-dash-dot broken lines in the drawings are included for the purpose of defining the boundary of the claim, it being understood that the dot-dash-dot broken lines themselves form no part of the claimed design. The defined boundary represents a repeatable unit of the claimed design.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D24/145

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