Surgical cutters with clamp retaining means

Claim 1

A SURGICAL CUTTER COMPRISING A PAIR OF BLADES EACH ATTACHED TO A HANDLE AND A HINGE COUPLING BETWEEN SAID BLADES AND HANDLES TO FORM A PAIR OF SCISSORS, CONTAINING MEANS NORMALLY CONSTRAINING SAID PAIR OF SCISSORS TO A POSITION IN WHICH THE BLADES ARE HELD APART, A FIRST CLAMP RETAINING MEMBER ON ONE SIDE OF SAID SCISSORS, DISPOSED AND COUPLED TO SAID SCISSORS CLOSE TO SAID HINGE COUPLING, A RECESS IN SAID FIRST CLAMP RETAINING MEMBER FACING THE BLADE END OF SAID SCISSORS, SECOND AND THIRD CLAMP RETAINING MEMBERS, ONE MOUNTED ON EACH BLADE, DISPOSED ADJACENT THE ENDS OF THE RESPECTIVE BLADES REMOTE FROM THE HANDLES AND BOTH ON SAID ONE SIDE OF THE SCISSORS, AND RECESSES IN SAID SECOND AND THIRD CLAMP RETAINING MEMBERS FACING EACH OTHER, SO THAT THE RECESSES IN SAID SECOND AND THIRD CLAMP RETAINING MEMBERS ARE SPECED APART WHEN THE BLADES OF THE SCISSORS ARE APART, AND SAID RECESSES IN THE SECOND AND THIRD CLAMP RETAINING MEMBERS ARE IN PROXIMITY AND SUBSTANTIAL ALIGNMENT WITH EACH OTHER WHEN THE BLADES OF THE SCISSORS ARE PARTIALLY OVERLYING EACH OTHER IN A CLOSED POSITION.