Patent ID: 8377074
Filing Date: 2013-02-19
Classification: A61B,B25B,B65D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A surgical screwdriver, surgical screw, and surgical screw storage cartridge system comprising: a screwdriver for torquing said surgical screw into a patient, said driver having a tip; a cartridge for storing a plurality of surgical screws, said cartridge including: a body for having a cavity for storing a plurality of surgical screws; a biased plunger for presenting said surgical screws to said driver head first; a tab preventing removal of said surgical screws from said body in the absence of insertion of said screwdriver into said body; and a plurality of surgical screws, said surgical screws having a head configured for reception of a tip of said screwdriver to interact therewith to providing a torsional interface between said surgical screw and said screwdriver, and said surgical screw having a counterbore for accepting an adjacent surgical screw stacked within said cartridge.