Patent ID: 8062311

Claim:
An apparatus for applying clips to tissue, comprising: a plurality of clips linked to one another to form a clip chain; a control linkage coupled to a proximal-most one of the clips for applying tension and compression to the clip chain; and a magazine containing the clip chain, the magazine including an abutment surface sized to permit passage distally therebeyond only of a distal-most clip of the clip chain, the clips being biased so that, when a distal-most one of the clips is moved distally out of the magazine, arms of the distal-most clip move apart to a tissue receiving configuration, a distal opening of the magazine being shaped so that, as the distal-most clip is drawn back into the opening through the application of tension to a proximal-most clip of the clip chain, the clip arms of the distal-most clip are drawn together to grip tissue received therebetween.