Patent ID: 8205340
Filing Date: 2012-06-26
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A surgical scalpel assembly comprising; a single piece handle, having two vertical sides and two horizontal sides which terminates said vertical sides, whereon a surgical scalpel sharps blade is capable of secure attachment at the distal end of said handle, said handle designed to have longitudinal travel channels and a separate longitudinal steam slot to allow for passage of sterilizing autoclave, said handle having a lack of non-autoclavable interior voids, and having an ejector bay longitudinally positioned along one of said vertical sides at said distal end of said handle, and where at least one said longitudinal travel channel is positioned along said horizontal side of said handle, and a shield, said shield having a substantially “C” shaped cross-sectional configuration having an interior and exterior portion and opposing upper and lower horizontal surfaces and a vertical surface connecting to each said horizontal surface, said “C” shaped configuration capable of partial circumferential interface with said handle and where said upper horizontal surface contains a perpendicular edge to interface with said longitudinal travel channel of said handle, said shield having a distal end and a proximal end, containing a surgical sharps ejection mechanism located proximally along said vertical surface, a shield locking mechanism interfacing with said longitudinal travel channel of said handle, and means to recognize the blade number of said surgical sharps, where said means to recognize the blade number of said surgical sharps is a section removed from said shield so located as to allow the user to view the blade number of said surgical sharp while said shield is locked in said closed position, said shield capable of linear transitory motion between fully covering said attached surgical sharps blade in a closed position and fully uncovering said attached surgical sharps blade in an open position, said shield capable of assembly and disassembly from said handle.