Medical clips

A medical clip for use as a sexual sterilisation clip having a resilient lower jaw member and a resilient upper jaw member hingedly connected at one end to the lower jaw member, the clip having cooperating latch means which may secure the clip in a closed position, the upper and lower jaws being convexly bowed when the clip is in the closed position in which said cooperating latch means comprises a hooked portion formed integrally with said upper jaw member at an end of said upper jaw, opposite to said hinge of said upper jaw and in which said lower jaw member is formed with an aperture at a distal end of said lower jaw member, opposite to said hinge and in which said hook member is dimensioned to cooperate with said aperture to form said latch means to latch, said clip in a closed position and in which said lower jaw is formed with a finger adjacent to said aperture, said finger extending from said aperture towards said hinge end of said lower jaw and being integrally situated within said lower jaw, said finger being dimensioned to cooperate with said hooked portion of said upper jaw to guide said hooked portion of said upper jaw through said aperture in said lower jaw during closure of said clip.