Patent ID: 8042720

Claim:
A device for affixing a tubular medical accessory to a wall of a body passage, said device comprises a handle portion, a barrel portion and a working head portion, said barrel portion is fitted with a pushing rod, which is displaceable along the barrel portion upon actuating the handle portion, wherein said working head portion is fitted with a plurality of wings and levers and said wings are preloaded with a plurality of staples, the arrangement being such that initial displacement of the pushing rod in a distal direction the wings towards the medical accessory without swiveling the levers wherein said wings are defined by a length which is sufficient to cause stretching of the medical accessory and the body passage in a radial direction resulting in abutment of the medical accessory while still further displacement of the pushing rod in the distal direction swivels the levers causing the staples to exit from the wings such that the staples pierce the accessory and the wall of the body passage and affix the accessory to the body passage.