Patent ID: 8221440

Claim:
A method of delivering a prosthetic fabric into a patient, the method comprising acts of: (a) collapsing the prosthetic fabric from a first configuration to a collapsed configuration using a first portion of a dual-purpose component; (b) loading the prosthetic fabric in the collapsed configuration into a delivery tube through a proximal end thereof using the first portion of the dual-purpose component in a first orientation; (c) following act (b), removing the dual-purpose component from the proximal end of the delivery tube, reversing the dual-purpose component from the first orientation to a second orientation and inserting the dual-purpose component into the delivery tube in the second orientation through the proximal end thereof; and (d) expelling the prosthetic fabric in the collapsed configuration from a distal end of the delivery tube using a second portion of the dual-purpose component in the second orientation.