INSTRUMENT FOR BINDING AND TIGHTENING LIATURE KNOTS Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: medical engineering. SUBSTANCE: device has handle 7 and upright connected to handle 7 with guiding slots connected to handle 7. Rod 2 is in the upright. The upright is hollow cylindrical casing 1 with open operating end face. Rod 3 has conical end site 3. The guiding slots are connected to each other creating a kind of passage 12 with the surface corresponding to the shape of knot to be bound and placed on the conical end site 3 of rod 2 and operating end face of casing 1. Movable gripping means 9 is mounted in the slots. The means is designed as flexible spring 17 with hold-down bend 18 with internal ligature clamp 19 made from rope or as balls 20 bound by means of rope 19 with end clamp 21 composed of two jaws or as flexible tube 22 with rope 19 enclosed inside it and connected to two clamping jaws 21 or as two clamping jaws 21 and flexible thread bound through a hinge. EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness in binding and producing ligature knots. 5 cl, 15 dwg