Buttress assembly for a surgical stapler

FIG. 1 is a top perspective view of a buttress assembly for a surgical stapler, showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the buttress assembly for a surgical stapler of FIG. 1 , the opposite bottom plan view being a mirror image thereof;

FIG. 3 is a side elevational view of the buttress assembly for a surgical stapler of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 4 is a side elevational view of the buttress assembly for a surgical stapler of FIG. 1 , the side elevation view of FIG. 4 being opposite to the side elevation view of FIG. 3 ;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged front elevational view of the buttress assembly for a surgical stapler of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 6 is an enlarged rear elevational view of the buttress assembly for a surgical stapler of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of the buttress assembly for a surgical stapler of FIG. 1 , taken along line 7 - 7 of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view of the buttress assembly for a surgical stapler of FIG. 1 , taken along line 8 - 8 of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view of the buttress assembly for a surgical stapler of FIG. 1 , taken along line 9 - 9 of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 10 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the buttress assembly for a surgical stapler of FIG. 3 , taken along line 10 - 10 of FIG. 3 ;

FIG. 11 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the buttress assembly for a surgical stapler of FIG. 3 , taken along line 11 - 11 of FIG. 3 ; and,

FIG. 12 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the buttress assembly for a surgical stapler of FIG. 3 , taken along line 12 - 12 of FIG. 3 .

The evenly-spaced broken lines in the drawings are included for purpose of illustrating portions of the buttress assembly 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 region between the dot-dash-dot broken lines and the dot-dash-dot broken lines themselves form no part of the claimed design.