Patents Represented by Attorney Fitch, Even, Tabin & Tabin, LLP
  • Patent number: 8196743
    Abstract: A needle-holding device (1) suitable in particular as a package comprises a flat needle carrier section (4) and an adjoining section that has a clamping lip (5) that is resiliently biased against the needle carrier section (4). The clamping lip (5) reaches around the stitch-forming sections of the needles (2) which are held lying next to each in contact with each other on the needle carrier section (4). The resiliently yielding clamping lip (5) permits the insertion and the pull-out of one, several or of all the needles (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Groz-Beckert KG
    Inventors: Uwe Stingel, Johannes Bruske, Hans-Joachim Halamoda