Surgical securance apparatus
OwnerRobert J. Songer, Matthew N. Songerinventors
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Abstract
A method for surgically securing body parts with a cable, typically making use of crimping pliers which comprises a pair of operating handles and connected, opposed jaws. The jaws define opposed recesses for carrying and crimping a tubular crimp member by manual pressure on the operating handles. A capstan is carried on one of the handles for winding a cable which passes through a tubular crimp member carried in the jaws. By this invention surgical cable may be looped around body parts in surgical operations, and the loop may be permanently secured at a predetermined desired tension.
Claims20
Crimping pliers which comprises a pair of operating handles and connected, opposed jaws, said jaws defining opposed recesses for carrying and crimping a tubular crimp member by manual pressure on the operating handles, and capstan means carried on one of said handles for winding a cable which passes through a tubular crimp member carried in said jaws, said capstan means comprising a winding shaft for retaining and winding said cable, a rotatable handle, and self-locking worm gear means for rotating said winding shaft in either direction with rotation of said handle.
Crimping pliers which comprises a pair of operating handles and connected, opposed jaws, said jaws defining opposed recesses for carrying and crimping a tubular crimp member by manual pressure on the operating handles, said opposed recesses being positioned to carry said crimp member at an acute angle to the axis of said crimping pliers jaws, and capstan means carried on one of said handles for winding a cable which passes through a tubular crimp member carried in said jaws, said capstan means comprising a winding shaft for retaining and winding said cable, a rotatable handle, and means for rotating said winding shaft with said rotation of said handle.
A crimping pliers which comprises a pair of operating handles and connected, opposed jaws, said jaws defining opposed recesses for carrying and crimping a tubular crimp member by manual pressure on the operating handles, said opposed recesses being positioned to carry said crimp member at an acute angle to the axis of the jaws of said crimping pliers.
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