Patent ID: 8056565

Claim:
A method of assembling any one of a relatively small, medium and large scaled surgical clip applier, wherein the respective clip appliers are scaled to deliver relatively small, medium and large surgical clips, the method comprising the steps of: assembling a channel assembly including the steps of: providing a lower channel; placing a drive channel in the lower channel; placing particularly sized jaws in the lower channel and overlying the drive channel; and placing a particularly sized wedge plate in lower channel and overlaying at least a portion of the drive channel and the jaws; providing a housing for a handle assembly; connecting the channel assembly to the housing, wherein the channel assembly includes a plurality of respectively scaled surgical clips loaded therein; providing a pusher bar in the channel assembly and extending to the handle assembly; and connecting a motion multiplier system to the pusher bar, wherein the scaling member varies a stroke of the pusher bar upon a firing of either a relatively small, medium or large scaled clip applier to load the respective clip into jaws of the clip applier.