Patent ID: 7955335
Filing Date: 2011-06-07
Classification: A61B,A61F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A device for trimming an osteochondral plug graft to an implantable configuration, comprising; a. a housing with a housing through bore that forms a continuous passageway in the housing, said housing defining an impact guide configured to receive a blade plate including a plurality of alternatively sized cutting blades, said blade plate configured to slide into said impact guide; b. a selected cutting blade of said blade plate terminating in a configured leading cutting edge; and c. a substantially longitudinal plug graft holding sleeve nestled within the housing through bore and having a sleeve bore to hold a plug graft in a shearable orientation aligned within the continuous passageway and oriented to coaxially receive the selected cutting blade within the sleeve bore with the blade in dose tolerance along an inner bore surface of the holding sleeve to shear the plug graft.