Patent ID: 9603603
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: A61B,B23D,B27B,Y10T

Claim:
1. A method of attaching a blade to a hand-held surgical tool, the method comprising: opening a collet fixture of the hand-held surgical tool to create a space for reception of a proximal end of the blade; introducing a shank of the collet fixture into a first opening having a slot at the proximal end of the blade, wherein the first opening and slot is defined at least partially by one or more fingers at the proximal end of the blade, wherein the introducing of the shank comprises deflecting the one or more fingers with the shank into one or more corresponding gaps formed within the first opening and slot from a first state to a second state; and advancing the shank into the first opening and radially beyond ends of the one or more fingers, such that the one or more fingers return to the first state after deflecting within the one or more corresponding gaps formed within the first opening and slot, wherein while the one or more fingers are in the first state and the shank is in the first opening and slot, the blade is provisionally secured to the shank by at least the one or more fingers.