Martin Shelly Sobel

US Patent:

6463719, Oct 15, 2002

Filed:

Dec 13, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/736007

Inventors:

Clifford Dey - Flemington NJ
Konstantin Ivanov - Bound Brook NJ
Martin Sobel - Flemington NJ
Joseph Stanley Siernos - Whitehouse Station NJ
John Rega - Milltown NJ
David Roslon - Hillsborough NJ
Raul Quinones - Caguas PR
Alan Hughieson - Edinburgh, GB
Mehmet Reyhan - E. Windsor NJ
Manfred Reiser - Hertmannsweiler, DE
Bernhard Wachter - Backnang, DE
Manfred Hild - Schorndorf, DE
Erwin Bauder - Waiblingen, DE

Assignee:

Ethicon - Somerville NJ

International Classification:

B65B 6304

US Classification:

53430, 53116, 206 633

Abstract:

A machine and process for packaging armed sutures into tray packages. The machine has a frame with a rotatable indexing disc member mounted to the top of frame. A plurality of tool nests are rotatably mounted to the top of the indexing disc. Tray packages mounted in the tool nests are rotated to wind sutures into a suture channel in the packages. A stylus having a front nose member and a rear heel member guides suture into the suture channel.

US Patent:

20060053996, Mar 16, 2006

Filed:

Sep 15, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/941391

Inventors:

Martin Sobel - Flemington NJ, US
Shelly Sobel - Flemington NJ, US

International Classification:

B26D 5/08

US Classification:

083614000

Abstract:

A light duty, long axis portable cutter includes a base member having a flat top and an elongated recessed cutting channel and an elongated housing guide connected to base member with a gap between the base member and the elongated housing guide so as to position a sheet to be cut atop the base member and under the elongated housing guide. The elongated housing guide is parallel to the channel, and has at least one track component adapted to receive a corresponding track component of the main housing. The main housing is adapted to move along the elongated housing guide parallel to the channel. It has a handle and a knife holder adapted to receive and hold a cutting knife or blade.

US Patent:

20060165529, Jul 27, 2006

Filed:

Jan 12, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/034431

Inventors:

Martin Sobel - Flemington NJ, US

International Classification:

F04D 29/34

US Classification:

41621000R

Abstract:

An air circulation system-driven, suspended rotating display device includes an attachment member and a rotatable member. The attachment member has an upper end and a lower end, and a component for attachment proximate a ceiling fan or, alternatively, proximate an air vent. The attachment component is located at the upper end, and has a swivel joint for attachment to a rotatable member. The rotatable member has a frame, a sign connected to the frame and at least one air vane connected to frame for acting like a turbine to cause circulating air to spin the rotatable member with its sign.

US Patent:

20070074614, Apr 5, 2007

Filed:

Dec 4, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/633259

Inventors:

Martin Sobel - Flemington NJ, US
Shelly Sobel - Flemington NJ, US

International Classification:

B26D 1/04

US Classification:

083614000

Abstract:

A light duty, long axis, portable, suspension linear cutter includes a base member having a flat top and an elongated recessed cutting channel and an elongated housing guide connected to suspension towers by suspension mechanism(s) with a gap between the base member and the elongated housing guide so as to position a sheet to be cut atop the base member and under the elongated housing guide. The elongated housing guide is parallel to the channel, and has a track component adapted to receive a corresponding track component of the main blade housing. The main blade housing is adapted to move along the elongated housing guide parallel to the channel. It has a handle and a knife holder adapted to receive and hold a blade.

US Patent:

54919541, Feb 20, 1996

Filed:

Jan 13, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/181591

Inventors:

Martin Sobel - Flemington NJ

Assignee:

Ethicon, Inc. - Somerville NJ

International Classification:

B65B 6304

US Classification:

53116

Abstract:

A suture winder machine and, more particularly, a semi-automated suture winding station of the machine adapted to facilitate the high-speed winding of multiple sutures, which are each attached to needles, into a peripheral channel of a tray utilized for packaging the needles and attached sutures. A substantially flat suture tray loaded with multiple needles and sutures extending therefrom is mounted on a rotatable platform incorporating registration structure for ensuring the appropriate mounting and positioning of the suture tray thereon, and with the winding machine containing operative structure adapted to rotate the suture tray about an axis perpendicular to the planar surface thereof so as to enable the extending multiple sutures to be bundled and wound for depositing in a channel formed along the periphery of the suture tray. The winding station of the machine includes cam-controlled stylus and suture guide structure; with the stylus engaging successive resilient fingers on the tray covering the channel during rotation of the tray on the platform on which the package is supported for rotation, so as to in cooperation with the suture guide, cause the sutures to be continually introduced into the channel beneath the raised fingers. Also disclosed is a cover-applying apparatus for attaching covers to the trays and concurrently forming product-labeling structure fastened to the trays.

US Patent:

55753825, Nov 19, 1996

Filed:

Dec 22, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/362681

Inventors:

Martin Sobel - Flemington NJ
Robert J. Cerwin - Tipersville PA

Assignee:

Ethicon, Inc. - Somerville NJ

International Classification:

A61B 1706

US Classification:

206 633

Abstract:

A package for retaining at least one ligature comprising a circular plate having a circular recessed base in the central portion thereof and a raised outer perimeter forming an inner wall that extends from and is substantially perpendicular to the base and an upper ring that extends from the inner wall and is substantially perpendicular to the inner wall and extends away from the base; and a flange member having a lower ring with an outer edge and an inner edge, extending from the outer edge is an outer wall which is substantially perpendicular to the lower ring, the outer wall having a top, extending form the top is an outer member that is substantially perpendicularly to the outer wall and extends away from the lower ring wherein the inner wall of the circular plate fits inside the inner edge of the lower ring and is adjacent thereto and the combination of the inner wall, lower ring, the outer wall and the upper ring defines a channel suitable for retaining a ligature said channel having an aperture for receiving said ligature. A method of loading a suture armed with a needle in the package is also disclosed.

US Patent:

56600240, Aug 26, 1997

Filed:

Aug 31, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/521978

Inventors:

Konstantin Ivanov - Bound Brook NJ
Martin Sobel - Flemington NJ
Donald Pompei - Montville NJ
Joseph Siernos - Whitehouse Station NJ
Andrew Chaloka - Clark NJ
Erwin Bauder - Waiblingen, DE
Walter Bohringer - Kleinheppach, DE

Assignee:

Ethicon, Inc. - Somerville NJ
Harro Hofliger - Somerville NJ

International Classification:

B65B 6304

US Classification:

53430

Abstract:

The specification discloses an automated apparatus and method for packaging surgical needles having sutures attached thereto wherein a bundle of needles and sutures are placed at a semi-automated separation station and an operator feeds the needles, one at a time, into a rotating needle feed wheel. As the feed wheel advances, the suture is tensioned and directed along a pre-determined path to separate it from the remaining sutures in the bundle. The apparatus has a plurality of individually rotatable tool nests which are sequentially spaced on a rotating or indexing turntable. These tool nests sequentially receive plastic packages for receiving the needle and suture at a first station. At a second station, a needle is inserted into the package by robotic fingers which have retrieved the needle and attached suture from the rotating needle feed wheel. The rotating needle feed wheel and the rotating tool nests are synchronized to step together as each advances.

US Patent:

52132102, May 25, 1993

Filed:

Feb 28, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/843651

Inventors:

Jack Cascio - Bridgewater NJ
Konstantin Ivanov - Dunellen NJ
Marvin Alpern - Glen Ridge NJ
Robert Cerwin - Pipersville PA
Joseph Siernos - Whitehouse Station NJ
Martin Sobel - Flemington NJ

Assignee:

Ethicon, Inc. - Somerville NJ

International Classification:

A61B 1706

US Classification:

206380

Abstract:

An easy loading suture package contains sutures in a channel near the periphery of the package. Resilient cantilevered fingers extend most of the way across the channel to prevent any part of the suture from coming up out of the channel either during or after loading of the suture into the package. A needle park retains a needle attached to one end of the suture. The package lends itself to fabrication by molding and is adapted for automated loading and convenient, reliable dispensing.