Patent ID: 8562614

Claim:
A medical cutting device for creating a thin cartilage disc, comprising: a device body having a first holding device including a first section with a first recess in a top side of said device body and at least partially enclosed by a first lateral delimiting ridge; a cover having a first projection located on a top side of said cover and closing said first recess, wherein said first lateral delimiting ridge includes a first guide slot which is guided via an end face of said first section and extends at a predetermined first distance parallel to a bottom surface of said first recess; a cutting blade inserted in said first guide slot of said first lateral delimiting ridge; wherein the cutting device is composed of a sterilizable material, and wherein said device body has at least one second holding device having a second section which includes a second recess located in the top side of said device body and at least partially enclosed by a second delimiting ridge, wherein said cover has a second projection which is located on the top side of said cover and closes said second recess, and wherein said second lateral delimiting ridge includes a second guide slot which is guided via an end face of said second section and extends at a predetermined second distance parallel to a bottom surface of said second recess, wherein said predetermined second distance is different than said predetermined first distance, and wherein a cutting blade is inserted into said second guide slot; and markings formed on sections selected from the group consisting of said sections of said device body, said sections of said cover on which said projections are formed, and both, said markings indicating a particular predetermined distance from said guide slot to said bottom surface from a corresponding one of said guide slots to said bottom surface of a corresponding line of said recesses and therefore a thickness of a cartilage disc that may be obtained using a corresponding one of said holding devices; and elements selected from the group consisting of round templates and oval templates having different diameters and formed in a surface of the cutting device, in an area selected from the group consisting of said top side of said device body in which said recesses are formed in a working space, on said top side of said cover on which said projections are formed, and both, said templates being configured to further process said thin cartilage disc.