Surgical knife safety handle guard
Granted 25 Jun 2013 · 2 office actions
Assignee: Beyer Weaver & Thomas
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Inventors: Michael J. Morawski, Dana M. Cote · Examiner: Ian Simmons · AU 2916 · TC 2900
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1 parts›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an…
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of a surgical knife safety handle guard showing my new design, with the guard shown extended from a surgical knife safety handle (shown in broken lines) which forms no part of the claimed design;
FIG. 2 is a top view of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 1 ;
FIG. 3 is a left side elevational view of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 1 , the right side elevational view (not shown) being a mirror image of the left side elevational view of FIG. 3 ;
FIG. 4 is a front elevational view of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 1 ;
FIG. 5 is a rear elevational view of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 1 ;
FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 1 , with the guard shown retracted from the unclaimed surgical knife safety handle shown in broken lines;
FIG. 7 is an enlarged perspective view of a portion of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 1 ;
FIG. 8 is an enlarged top view of a portion of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 2 ;
FIG. 9 is an enlarged left side view of a portion of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 3 ; and,
FIG. 10 is an enlarged perspective view of a portion of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 6 .
The broken line showing of the surgical knife safety handle, blade and blade support is for illustrative purposes only, and forms no part of the claimed design.
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