Surgery – Instruments – Surgical mesh – connector – clip – clamp or band
Patent
1993-11-15
1995-11-07
Lewis, Aaron J.
Surgery
Instruments
Surgical mesh, connector, clip, clamp or band
606157, 60620445, 606208, A61B 1704
Patent
active
054644135
ABSTRACT:
A nose clip is provided, which can be constructed at low cost and which can be smoothly operated to comfortably close noses of different sizes. The clip includes a frame (12, FIG. 1 ) with a pair of largely vertical bars (14, 16) having nose-squeezing lower ends (20, 22), middles (34, 36) that are pivotally connected, and upper ends (30, 32). A first bar has a pawl (52) on its upper end and the second bar carries a toothed beam (54) that is engaged by the pawl to prevent the upper ends from moving together to thereby keep the lower ends in the nose-squeezing position. The arm middles are connected by an integrally molded flexible and resilient crossbeam (40), and the pawl and toothed beam are integrally molded with the rest of the frame. A person uses the clip by placing pads (24, 26) lying on the lower ends of the bars, against opposite sides of his nose and squeezing the lower ends of the bars until his nose is comfortably closed, at which time one tooth of the multi-toothed beam will engage the pawl.
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Lenz Vernon C.
Siska, Jr. William
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