Patent ID: 8419752

Claim:
An apparatus for application of surgical clips to body tissue, the apparatus comprising: a handle assembly including a trigger and a drive bar reciprocally translatable by the trigger upon an actuation thereof; a shaft assembly extending distally from the handle assembly and defining a longitudinal axis, the shaft assembly including: a housing; a plurality of surgical clips disposed within the housing; a jaw mounted adjacent a distal end portion of the housing, the jaw being movable between an open spaced-apart condition and a closed approximated condition; a pusher bar reciprocally disposed within the housing, the pusher bar being configured to load a distal-most surgical clip into the jaws while the jaws are in the open condition and remain in a distal-most position during an approximation of the jaws; a wedge plate reciprocally disposed within the housing, the wedge plate being movable between a position where a distal end thereof is disposed in the jaws and a position where the distal end thereof is free from said jaws; and a connector plate reciprocally disposed within the housing, wherein the connector plate detachably connects to at least one of the pusher bar and the wedge plate during at least a portion of a firing stroke of the apparatus, wherein the pusher bar includes a spring clip supported thereon for detachably connecting to a first feature provided on the connector plate, and the wedge plate includes a spring clip supported thereon for detachably connecting to a second feature provided on the connector plate.