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The present invention relates to a surgical clip for occluding the flow of blood through a blood vessel, artery or vein. The clip formed with longitudinal and transverse or lateral notches to prevent both longitudinal and lateral slippage of the clip with respect to the vessel. The clip is also prov

The present invention relates to a surgical clip for occluding the flow of blood through a blood vessel, artery or vein. The clip formed with longitudinal and transverse or lateral notches to prevent both longitudinal and lateral slippage of the clip with respect to the vessel. The clip is also provided with coined front legs to assist in deformation about a vessel and to further provide a self aligning feature when the clips are arranged in an abutting, forward facing row. The apparatus of the present invention forms the foregoing described clip and does so in a symmetrical way to provide a clip with a uniform stock length.

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A surgical clip for occluding the flow of a body fluid through a vein, artery or similar vessel for use with a mechanical clip applying device adapted to hold a plurality of the clips abuttingly arranged in a forward facing row and deform each successive clip to provide two generally parallel legs j

A surgical clip for occluding the flow of a body fluid through a vein, artery or similar vessel for use with a mechanical clip applying device adapted to hold a plurality of the clips abuttingly arranged in a forward facing row and deform each successive clip to provide two generally parallel legs joined at a bight portion, the clip, prior to deformation, having proximal leg portions connected together at the bight portion and forming an angle therebetween, and distal leg portions, each distal leg portion being connected to its respective proximal leg portion at an obtuse angle, the distal and proximal leg portions being substantially coplanar and the distal leg portions being substantially parallel, the improvement comprising bevelled formations at the free ends of the distal leg portions disposed and arranged to cause each clip to have a clip stack length equal to the clip stack length of every other clip in the row of clips and to engage the proximal leg portions of the preceding clip in the row of clips to cause the row of clips to advance while maintaining linear alignment upon the application of a force to the last clip in the row of clips.