Patent ID: 7708746

Claim:
An apparatus for processing harvested dermal tissue supported on a cutting surface, comprising: a housing presenting a handle having a gripping surface and a cutting head attached to the handle; a cutting assembly connected to the cutting head, the cutting assembly including a plurality of spaced apart blade tips that are configured to cut through the harvested tissue as the cutting assembly rotates along the cutting surface to produced sliced tissue, the blade tips being spaced apart by spacer members having a diameter less than a cutting blade diameter, the blade tips spaced apart a distance between about 500 microns and about 900 microns; a tissue separator including a base supported by the housing and a plurality of tines extending outwardly from the base and configured to interdigitate between adjacent blade tips, the tines configured to remove sliced tissue lodged in the cutting assembly, wherein the tines engage the spacer members; and a receptacle disposed downstream of the cutting assembly, the receptacle configured to receive sliced tissue from the cutting blades.