Patent ID: 8475491
Filing Date: 2013-07-02
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
1. A plurality of surgical staples for implantation into tissue as a chain, each of which staples comprises only two spaced apart legs, and a crown connector which joins said two legs to each other at upper ends thereof and spaces said two legs a predetermined fixed distance apart from each other at their upper ends, said legs having a substantially constant cross section in the region above their lower ends which are pointed, only one of said legs being formed with an integral ring extending laterally therefrom in a direction away from said other leg, said ring being oriented perpendicular to said leg and having an aperture proportioned to receive one leg of a similar surgical staple, said staple being designed to allow said two legs to become bent toward each other once said pointed lower ends have penetrated the tissue surface so as to assume a curved configuration and gather tissue below said surface and constrict same as a part of a chain comprising a plurality of pairs of said staples wherein each said staple is a part of a pair wherein one of said only two legs of one staple of the pair resides in said ring aperture of the other staple of the pair.