Patent ID: 7316688

Claim:
A device for cutting a guide wire and a Kirschner wire and, at the same time, attaching a protective sleeve for protecting the end of the wire, said device comprising: an outer sleeve having a second longitudinal axis, a first front end, a first rear end, and a first borehole having an first borehole axis passing longitudinally through the outer sleeve, the first borehole at the first front end of the outer sleeve has a constriction whose third longitudinal axis is parallel to the first borehole axis and is at a distance a>0 from the first borehole axis; an inner sleeve capable of being rotated in the first borehole coaxially to the first axis of the first borehole having a second front end, a second rear end, and a second borehole having a second borehole axis passing through the inner sleeve longitudinally, the second borehole axis extends parallel to the first borehole axis of the first borehole at a distance b>0 therefrom; and a housing with a central axis, a front end, a rear end, and a cavity which accommodates the outer sleeve and passes through the housing parallel to the central axis, wherein the second front end of the inner sleeve has a circular cutting edge which is concentric with the second borehole axis, wherein the constriction accommodates the protective sleeve and compress fits the protective sleeve onto the wire when the outer sleeve and inner sleeve are rotated with respect to each other.