Patent ID: 11883019
Assignee: CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 13:
14. A surgical stapler for stapling the tissue of a patient, comprising:
a handle;
a shaft extending from said handle;
a plurality of staples;
an end effector, comprising:
a tissue compression surface;
a tissue cutting knife; and
an anvil comprising staple forming pockets;

a staple cluster feeding system comprising a divider, wherein said staple cluster feeding system is configured to:
advance a quantity of said staples into said end effector;
wherein said divider separates said quantity of staples into a first cluster of staples on a first side of said tissue cutting knife and a second cluster of staples on a second side of said tissue cutting knife; and
align said first cluster of staples with a first cluster of forming pockets of said staple forming pockets positioned on said first side of said tissue cutting knife and said second cluster of staples with a second cluster of forming pockets of said staple forming pockets positioned on said second side of said tissue cutting knife; and

a staple firing system configured to deploy said first cluster of staples and said second cluster of staples during a single staple firing motion.