USPatent applicationPatented

Surgical knife safety handle guard

Granted 25 Jun 2013 · 2 office actions

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29/371,480
filed 14 Mar 2011
Publication
Not published
not published
Patent
US D685091
granted 25 Jun 2013

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Description

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›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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Classifications

4 codes
IPC · International Patent Classification
Section A — Human necessities
  • A61B19/00
  • A61B17/32
  • A61F9/013
USPC · US Patent Classification
D24/147

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834 days filing → grant
Office actions
2
non-final + final
Responses
2
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Examiner
Ian Simmons
art unit 2916 · TC 2900
Citations: 162 back · 0 forward

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