Patent ID: 8764778

Claim:
A suture clip for joining portions of bodily soft tissue, said suture clip comprising a pair of identical flexible compression strips formed of a biodegradable and bio-absorbable polymer and adapted to interlock with one another with said portions of said bodily soft tissue compressed therebetween to arrest blood vessels in said portions of said bodily soft tissue, each said compression strip having at least two equidistantly spaced-apart tissue piercing teeth projecting forwardly of a flat clamping surface of said strip, each said piercing tooth having a pointed free end portion and opposed latch formations, each said latch formation being disposed to a respective one of opposed top and bottom sides of said piercing teeth for latching engagement of said latch formations, said compression strips having spaced-apart tooth latching guide ramps extending rearwardly from said clamping surface and disposed on opposed sides of said tissue piercing teeth, said tooth latching guide ramps being angulated rearwards and having a fixed arresting means formed in a rear edge thereof, each said pointed free end portion of said piercing tooth having opposed outwardly sloped flat walls extending rearwardly from said pointed free end portion of said tooth, said opposed outwardly sloped flat walls terminating in an abrupt rear edge of said piercing tooth to constitute said latch formations, and each compression strip having a flexible arresting means projecting above each said latching guide ramp and the flexible arresting means has a gripping edge formation facing said latching guide ramp, said compression strips when brought together in offset mating relationship causing said piercing teeth to be displaced on said tooth latching guide ramps until said latch formations of said piercing teeth become locked between said fixed arresting means of said guide ramps and said gripping edge formations of said flexible arresting means.