Surgical knife safety handle guard

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Description

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of a surgical knife safety handle guard showing my new design, with the guard shown extended from a surgical knife safety handle (shown in broken lines) which forms no part of the claimed design;

FIG. 2 is a top view of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a left side elevational view of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 1, the right side elevational view (not shown) being a mirror image of the left side elevational view of FIG. 3;

FIG. 4 is a front elevational view of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a rear elevational view of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 1, with the guard shown retracted from the unclaimed surgical knife safety handle shown in broken lines;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged perspective view of a portion of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 8 is an enlarged top view of a portion of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 9 is an enlarged left side view of a portion of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 3; and,

FIG. 10 is an enlarged perspective view of a portion of the surgical knife safety handle guard shown in FIG. 6.

The broken line showing of the surgical knife safety handle, blade and blade support is for illustrative purposes only, and forms no part of the claimed design.

Claims

The ornamental design for a surgical knife safety handle guard, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D685091
Type: Grant
Filed: Mar 14, 2011
Date of Patent: Jun 25, 2013
Assignee: Beaver-Vistec International (US), Inc. (Lake Forest, IL)
Inventors: Michael J. Morawski (Haverhill, MA), Dana M. Cote (Saugus, MA)
Primary Examiner: Ian Simmons
Assistant Examiner: Carissa C Fitts
Application Number: 29/371,480
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Manually Driven (32) (D24/147)