Patent ID: 7951160

Claim:
A surgical fastener applier for applying surgical fasteners to a body lumen, the applier comprising: at least one surgical fastener having an outer barrel and an inner rotatable barrel, the fastener defining at least a pair of slots extending through the inner and outer barrels, the fastener having a biased open position wherein the slots are aligned and a biased closed position wherein the slots are out of alignment; an outer tubular sleeve including a proximal end and an open distal end and defining a lumen therethrough, the outer tubular sleeve being configured and dimensioned to receive the at least one surgical fastener in the lumen thereof; an inner pusher configured and dimensioned to be reciprocably received within the lumen of the outer tubular sleeve for pushing the fastener toward the distal end of the sleeve; and a mechanism operatively couplable with the fastener for releasably maintaining the fastener in the biased open position.