Patent ID: 7270672

Claim:
A knot transfer instrument for transferring, through an access port coming from a body cavity in an endoscopic surgery, a slidable knot of the type that is formed from a surgical suture, has a pair of suture ends extending therefrom, and joins a patient's tissue, comprising: an elongated cylindrical shaft, having a proximal and distal end, said shaft capable of cradling the slidable knot at the distal end, said proximal and distal ends being spaced a predetermined distance apart, said distal end of said shaft, along the longitudinal portion of the shaft, having a flat surface on the outer circumference of the shaft and perpendicular to a longitudinal plane of the shaft wherein a pair of spaced parallel legs extend longitudinally from the distal end of said shaft at opposite sides of the flat surface and are perpendicular to the flat surface, the legs comprising proximal and distal ends and having a rectangular shape with rounded corners and edges, one of the legs having a rounded hole eyelet connected to a slit wherein the slit extends to the distal end of the leg and the other leg having a rounded hole eyelet without a slit, whereby each of said legs can be used to hold a respective suture end extending from said slidable knot, and said knot transfer instrument can be used to urge said slidable knot forward from outside to inside said body cavity through said access port with precision, ease, and dispatch with and without pause, and said eyelets can facilitate tightening said slidable knot to join said patient's tissue contiguously.