Flexible tensioning device, especially for medical purposes
AssigneeKarl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsMarkus Salvermoser, Uwe Bacher
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Abstract
The invention comprises a flexible tightening device, especially for medical purposes, with one of several jointed element pivotable against one another existing arm, in which the arm can be locked into the desired position of the locking element by means of a tightening element. In order to create a simply constructed tightening device, which is also easy to clean, which can be adjusted on many sides and is lockable, the invention is suggested, in which each jointed element demonstrates a ball joint at one end and at the opposite end a socket joint to receive the ball joint and that each jointed element is constructed in the length direction in two parts, whereby the individual length pieces are adjustable against one another for locking purposes.
Claims8
A flexible tightening device, having an arm comprising several jointed elements moveable against one another, in which the arm may be locked in a chosen pivoted position of the jointed elements by means of a tightening element, wherein each jointed element comprises on one end a ball joint and at the opposite end a socket joint to receive a ball joint, and wherein each jointed element is constructed in two parts in the length direction, whereby the two parts can be adjusted against one another for locking purposes, and wherein the two parts of each jointed element are pivotable against each other about a common joint axis in such a way that by causing the socket joint of a jointed element to open, the ball joint of the same jointed element is also caused to open.
A flexible tightening device having an arm comprising several jointed elements moveable against one another, in which the arm may be locked in a chosen pivoted position of the jointed elements by means of a tightening element, wherein each jointed element comprises on one end a ball joint and at the opposite end a socket joint to receive a ball joint, wherein each jointed element is constructed in two parts in the length direction, whereby the two parts can be adjusted against one another for locking purposes, and wherein the two parts of the jointed elements are z-shaped in construction when viewed from the side so that with one of the two parts the upper part of the ball joint is connected with the lower part of the socket joint and with the other of the two parts the lower part of the ball joint is connected to the upper part of the socket joint.
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