US 7,537,174 B2
Hand triggered tissue sealant spray apparatus and system
Heinz Redl, Vienna (Austria); Zafar Khakpour, Vienna (Austria); Scott R. Ariagno, Lemont, Ill. (US); Andreas Kellner, Vienna (Austria); and Lillian G. Zakarija, Chicago, Ill. (US)
Assigned to Baxter International Inc., Deerfield, Ill. (US); and Baxter Healthcare S.A., Wallisellen, Zurich (Switzerland)
Filed on Jan. 12, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/331,243.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/643368, filed on Jan. 12, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0191962 A1, Aug. 31, 2006
Int. Cl. A62C 13/62 (2006.01); A62C 5/00 (2006.01); B05B 9/04 (2006.01); B05B 11/02 (2006.01); F23D 11/10 (2006.01); B67D 5/52 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 239—321  [239/306; 239/311; 239/418; 222/137; 222/391] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sealant applicator assembly for use with an apparatus of the type having an elongated body defining an interior bore for containing sealant component and having proximal and distal ends, a piston movably positioned in the bore, and a pusher member attached to the through the proximal end of the bore and cantilevered from the piston, the sealant applicator assembly comprising;
a spray adaptor adapted to communicate with the bore of the body and defining a distal outlet;
a first gas passageway cooperatively associated with the distal outlet, the first gas passageway configured to direct gas to create a spray discharge of the sealant; and
an actuating member adapted to be cooperatively associated with the pusher member and that the entirety of which rides with the pusher member toward the distal end of the body to eject sealant through the distal outlet, the actuating member being operative to simultaneously actuate a supply of gas to said first gas passageway for creating a spray discharge of sealant.