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Working Surface Style #60

Open sklar-careym opened 10 years ago

sklar-careym commented 10 years ago

I have recently come across specifications regarding a serrated working surface style that have said Cross-Serrated and Heavy Serrated. I am guessing that cross serrated should be hyphenated? 'Cross-Serrated', and 'Heavy Serrated' Should be converted to "Heavily Serrated" with no hyphen?

sklar-sherryp commented 10 years ago

I agree with the use of the hyphen in "Cross-Serrated."

@mwmalinowski will need to weigh in on the Heavy/Heavily Serrated. I don't recall any examples like that and if I saw "heavy" anywhere would most likely have put it in Pattern

mwmalinowski commented 10 years ago

I believe I have seen products with heavy serrations... though I'm not sure of any examples off the cuff... some kinds of forceps, I think. We should look into some instruments with so-called heavy serrations and work from there to decide our naming policy.

sklar-sherryp commented 10 years ago

@mwmalinowski @sklar-careym

Researched "Heavy Serrations" on the Sklar website, Sklar catalogs, and competitor catalogs. This appears in only a handful of instruments and primarily in the Sklar catalogs.

Upon examination of what was available in stock and/or photos, there is definitely a difference between what is considered "Heavy" serrations for each of these groups of instruments. Some look more like teeth than what I would consider serrations (on the Scissors and Sklartech 5000.) The Forceps are longitudinal serrations and are definitely "thicker" than "traditional" serrations so I can see why they would be considered "heavy".

It looks like we (or whomever) just needs to decide (1) what constitutes "Heavy Serrations" (2) How we're going to word it, and (3) make the wording as consistent as possible.

Specifics on the Sklar wesbite that show the inconsistencies etc...

"Heavy Serrations" only shows under 31-4312YC, Sklartech 5000 Miniature Grasping Forceps and only in the Short Description.

"Heavy Serrations" doesn't show at all on the web page for 31-4313YC, Sklartech 5000 Miniature Cobra Grasping Forceps

The Short Description for 41-1120, Martin Scissors shows "Curved Heavy Serrated" - no commas so it could be interpreted as "Heavy Serrated" or a "Heavy" Model I suppose.

The Long Description for 41-1120, Martin Scissors shows simply "Serrated" Edge and "Heavy" Pattern.

The Short Description for 24-2347, Suture Wire Cutting Scissors shows "Straight Serrated" - no commas

The Long Description for 24-2347, Suture Wire Cutting Scissors also shows simply "Serrated" Edge and "Heavy" Pattern.

The Short Description for 55-3012, Harrington-Mixter Clamp shows "Heavy Model, Curved, Longitudinal Serrations"

The Long Description for 55-3012, Harrington-Mixter Clamp and 55-2894, Mixter Right Angle Forceps show "Longitudinally Serrated" Edge with a "Heavy" Pattern.

There were no instances of "Heavily Serrated" with or without a hyphen in the catalogs or on the website.