Patent ID: 9579098
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A combination of a suturing device and a holder wherein said suturing device comprises: a sized bendable suture needle and a longitudinally extending outer hollow body having a point and a hollow passage therethrough; wherein said longitudinally extending outer hollow body being constructed and dimensioned to receive said sized bendable suture needle within said passage with slightly close tolerances; and wherein said outer longitudinally extending outer hollow body includes a lower portion of relatively stiff bendable material and an upper portion of relatively malleable material adjacent to and fixed to said lower portion; and wherein said longitudinally extending outer hollow body is more malleable as it becomes closer to said point; and wherein said holder for said suturing device comprising: a pair of forwardly extending arms and means pivotally connecting said forwardly extending arms together intermediate of said forwardly extending arms; a pair of handles at one end of said forwardly extending arms with one of said handles on each of said pair of arms on one side of said means pivotally connecting said arms together; two pair of spring biased jaws with one of said pair of spring biased jaws disposed at one opposite end of said arm from said handles and in an opposite side of said means pivotally connecting said arms together; each of said forwardly extending arms including an arc-shaped element and a longitudinally extending passageway through each of said arms; a pair of wires with one of said wires disposed in each of said passageways and connected at one end thereof to one of said arc-shaped elements and at the other end thereof to the one of said pair of jaws and wherein pulling one of said arc-shaped elements toward said handle opens the one of said pair of jaws and releasing said one of said arc-shaped elements closes said one of said pair of jaws due to said spring bias; and wherein moving said spring biased jaws simultaneously away from said arms is configured to bend the suturing device held therein by said jaws.