Plier-type cutting and gripping tool

• US 3,287,751 A
• Filed: 11/02/1964
• Issued: 11/29/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hoffman, Robert
• Original Assignee: Hoffman, Robert
• Inventors: Hoffman, Robert
• Application Number:
  US04/407,977
• Time in Patent Office: 757 Days
• US Class Current: 7/132
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/8863 Apparatus for shaping or cutting osteosynthesis equipment by medical personnel
• CPC Class Codes: A61C 7/04 plier-type, e.g. pincers

Claims

1. A PLIERS COMPRISING A FIRST RELATIVELY SHORT MOVABLE JAW, A SECOND RELATIVELY SHORT MOVABLE JAW, MEANS PIVOTALLY MOUNTING SAID JAWS FOR MOVEMENT TOWARDS AND AWAY FROM EACH OTHER, EACH OF SAID JAWS HAVING COMPLEMENTARY ABUTTING BEAKS PROVIDED WITH FLAT SURFACES WHICH ABUT EACH OTHER WITH THE JAWS IN A CLOSED POSITION, SAID FIRST JAW HAVING A FIRST BLADE AT ONE EDGE THEREOF, SAID SECOND JAW HAVING A PROJECTION DISPOSED OUTWARDLY OF AND EXTENDING PERPENDICULARLY TO THE FLAT SURFACE OF SAID SECOND JAW, SAID PROJECTION TERMINATING IN A SECOND BLADE EXTENDING ABOVE SAID FLAT SURFACE OF SAID SECOND JAW AND EXTENDING PERPENDICULARLY TO AND COOPERATING WITH SAID FIRST BLADE TO CUT MATERIAL DISPOSED THEREBETWEEN UPON PARTIAL CLOSURE OF SAID JAWS AND SO THAT UPON FURTHER CLOSURE OF SAID JAWS AN END OF SAID MATERIAL SO CUT WILL BE GRASPED BETWEEN SAID FLAT SURFACES, AND A PAIR OF OPPOSED PROJECTIONS SUBSTANTIALLY THINNER THAN SAID BEAKS HAVING COMPLEMENTARY KNURLED SURFACES FORMING EXTENSIONS AND BEING COPLANAR WITH SAID FLAT SURFACES OF SAID BEAKS AND EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM THE SIDES OF SAID JAWS OPPOSITE TO SAID BLADES AND FORWARDLY OF SAID BEAKS AND AT AN ANGLE RELATIVE TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID PLIERS FOR FACILITATING TWISTING OF THE MATERIAL.