Patent ID: 7699851

Claim:
A cutting jig system serving as a guide for cutting spinal spacer implants from donor bone for spinal fusions, the system comprising: a first jig having a bed with clamp means for clamping donor bone positioned on said bed for cutting; a removable cutting guide insert received in fixed orientation on said bed and having two spaced cutting blade cutting guides configured for transversely cutting out a segment of donor bone clamped on said bed to a predetermined shape and dimension to provide a custom fit lumbar inter-body fusion implant; said cutting guide insert comprised of a spaced upper and lower pair of inserts having identical cutting blade guide profiles therein which are open to one side of said jig for receiving and guiding respectively upper and lower portions of a cutting blade from said one side; said jig open at said one side and thereby forming a cavity therein for exposing bone clamped in said first jig to be cut and receiving a cutting blade through said side opening, and said spaced cutting blade cutting guides of both said upper and lower inserts being open ended at said one side of said jig and dimensioned to thereby simultaneously receive and guide upper and lower portions respectively of a vertically reciprocated cutting blade into said cavity from said one side of said jig for cutting through donor bone clamped on said bed along a predetermined profile.