Abstract A disposable bowel clamp is described in which the clamp can be applied quickly by means of a detachable applicator. The applicator is operated with the thumb and fingers of one hand upon two grips so that the plastic clamp can be positioned about the bowel and fastened therein by the surgeon using only one hand and having the other free for other purposes. The plastic clamp itself is comprised of two rod shaped bodies having on one end a hooking means and on the other end a corresponding aperture through which the hook-penetrates and latches into position. Each of these rods, which make up the body of the clamp, is frictionally held within the confines of one or the other jaws of the applicator in such a way that once the jaws are closed and the clamp fastened securely together, the jaws which have conducted the clamp bodies into contact can be opened and pulled away from the clamp. A presently preferred structural means for holding the clamp bodies in each of the applicator jaws is by means of a frictional U-shaped channel which runs the length of the applicator jaw and frictionally clasps each of the two portions of the clamp body.
In combination a compressive applicator means have two opposed and aligned in parallel jaws, each jaw of the applicator having releasably attached to its inner surface one half of an also opposed and aligned interlatching bowel clamp, said bowel clamp comprising a set of rod like members, each of the rod like members frictionally fitted into a receiving channel positioned in the interior surface of each jaw and having on one end thereof a latching finger and on the opposite end thereof a receptacle for the reception of the latching finger, said bowel clamp members being capable of being positioned around the periphery of a bowel and brought into register by the closure of the opposed jaws of the applicator.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
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In combination a compressive applicator means have two opposed and aligned in parallel jaws, each jaw of the applicator having releasably attached to its inner surface one half of an also opposed and aligned interlatching bowel clamp, said bowel clamp comprising a set of rod like members, each of the rod like members frictionally fitted into a receiving channel positioned in the interior surface of each jaw and having on one end thereof a latching finger and on the opposite end thereof a receptacle for the reception of the latching finger, said bowel clamp members being capable of being positioned around the periphery of a bowel and brought into register by the closure of the opposed jaws of the applicator.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
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A device according to claim 1 wherein the rod-like bowel clamp members are latched together by means of engagement of a ratchet with the latching finger.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
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A device according to claim 1 wherein each rod-like bowel clamp member has an opposed receptacle in register with the latching finger of the other rod-lIke bowel clamp member.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
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A device according to claim 3 wherein the receptacle has therein a set of teeth so arranged as to form a ratchet fastener with the lip of the latching finger.