Improvements in surgical instruments

Abstract

Abstract 966,277. Scissors; pliers. P. D. CURUTCHET. Nov. 13, 1962, No. 42959/62. Headings B4B and B4W. [Also in Division A5] A surgical clamp or scissors comprise two members 11, 12 relatively pivotal about a pin 13 intermediate their ends, each member carrying at its operating end holding means in the form of a plate 18, 19 which is not coplanar with the two members, a spring 30 being mounted between the members for urging them apart and each member having projections 16, 17 which are interengageable to hold the members closed. The plates are flat and are arranged at right angles to the plane containing the two members. Fins 27, 28 traverse the centre of each plate. The spring is of strip form and is secured at one end to one member and has a slot 31 at the other end which is slidable on a latching toe 32 on the other member. The operative end of the device comprises toothed jaws.

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