Patent ID: 7833234

Claim:
An assembly comprising at least one couched I-shaped surgical fastener (A) and an appliance ( 1 ) for storing, distributing and placing such fasteners, comprising: a handgrip body (B) equipped with at least one control means ( 8 , 10 ) and an elongate element (C) attached and fixed to the handgrip ( 4 ), in which appliance the elongate element (C) is made up of a body ( 20 ) of tubular overall shape containing: a magazine slide ( 22 ) movable through the elongate element (C) and being configured and dimensioned to retain the at least one surgical fastener (A), each surgical fastener (A) including an anchoring bar ( 2 ), a catching bar ( 3 ) and a connecting strip ( 4 ), said magazine slide ( 22 ) being movable through the elongate element (C) by a control rod ( 24 ) which can be actuated by the control means ( 8 , 10 ) of the handgrip ( 6 ), the magazine slide ( 22 ) being secured to a slotted and longitudinal hollow ejection barrel ( 50 ) projecting from the distal end of said magazine slide ( 22 ) and able to project from the elongate element (C), and, the tubular body ( 20 ) including means ( 23 , 41 ) for distributing the stored fasteners (A) one by one via transfer of the anchoring bar ( 2 ) into a receiving seat ( 55 ) formed in the magazine slide ( 22 ), wherein an ejection plunger ( 42 ) is operatively connected to the control means ( 8 , 10 ) of the handgrip ( 6 ) and positioned in alignment with the ejection barrel ( 50 ) so as to push the anchoring bar ( 2 ) of the fastener into the ejection barrel, characterized in that: the anchoring bar includes a cylindrical portion and a conical portion extending distally from a distal end of the cylindrical portion, the conical portion including a distal tip having a hemispherical shape, the surface of the distal end of the ejection barrel ( 50 ) is arranged in a plane substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the tubular body ( 20 ).