US 11,950,789 B2
Bone cleaning assembly
Robert E. Lynch, Portage, MI (US); Eric K. Diehl, San Francisco, CA (US); John Coleman Horton, IV, Austin, TX (US); Cyril A. Keilers, Georgetown, TX (US); and John P. Bernero, Round Rock, TX (US)
Assigned to Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Filed by Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Filed on Oct. 12, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/068,261.
Application 15/627,488 is a division of application No. 14/311,674, filed on Jun. 23, 2014, granted, now 9,687,361, issued on Jun. 27, 2017.
Application 17/068,261 is a continuation of application No. 16/018,660, filed on Jun. 26, 2018, granted, now 10,828,048.
Application 16/018,660 is a continuation of application No. 15/627,488, filed on Jun. 20, 2017, granted, now 10,034,673, issued on Jul. 31, 2018.
Application 14/311,674 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2012/072160, filed on Dec. 28, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/581,310, filed on Dec. 29, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2021/0022751 A1, Jan. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. A61F 2/46 (2006.01); A61B 17/16 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/1635 (2013.01) [A61F 2/4644 (2013.01); A61F 2002/4646 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bone cleaning assembly, said assembly including:
a shell defining a void space for receiving bone stock;
a cutter formed with a plurality of cutting edges and a shaving tube disposed around said cutter, said cutter is rotatably mounted to said shell so as to be disposed in said shell to remove tissue from bone stock received therein;
a lid defining a collection surface onto which cut tissue collects; and
a cap removably coupled to said shell to cover and enclose said collection surface, wherein said cap and said collection surface cooperate to define a collecting space for soft tissue;
wherein said cutter and shaving tube cooperate to auger cut tissue axially upward to collect on said collection surface.