Tourniquet

• US 3,884,240 A
• Filed: 08/03/1973
• Issued: 05/20/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: C. Malcolm B. Gilman
• Original Assignee: C. Malcolm B. Gilman
• Inventors: Gilman, C. Malcolm B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pace, Channing L.
• Application Number:
  US05/216,017
• Time in Patent Office: 655 Days
• Field of Search: 128/325,327,346 248/226A,226B,316A 24/263LS 2/209
• US Class Current: 606/201
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/132 Tourniquets sphygmomanometer A61B5/022
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/12004 for haemostasis, for prevention of bleeding
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44615 with position locking-means for gripping members

Abstract

A tourniquet comprising; a loop of spring steel defining a C or U shape; a manually operable pressure screw disposed at one end of the loop having a first rubber pad disposed on the inside of the loop; and a second rubber pad secured to the other end of the loop on the inside thereof.

Claims

1. A tourniquet comprising:

A FIRST CURVED OPEN ENDED LOOP MEMBER OF SPRING STEEL HAVING AN INTERNAL BORE EXTENDING THEREIN FROM ONE END TO A POINT INTERMEDIATE THE ENDS, THE FIRST MEMBER HAVING A CONVEX OUTER SURFACE AND A CONCAVE INNER SURFACE;

A SECOND CURVED OPEN ENDED LOOP MEMBER OF SPRING STEEL ALSO HAVING A CONVEX OUTER SURFACE AND A CONCAVE INNER SURFACE, ONE END OF THE SECOND MEMBER BEING SLIDABLE IN THE BORE OF THE FIRST MEMBER TO VARY THE OVERALL LENGTH OF A COMPOSITE LOOP DEFINED BY THE TWO INTERCONNECTED MEMBERS, THE OTHER ENDS OF THE MEMBERS BEING DISPOSED OPPOSITE EACH OTHER REGARDLESS OF THE OVERALL LENGTH;

MANUALLY ADJUSTABLE SECURING MEANS ATTACHED TO THE FIRST MEMBER ADJACENT SAID ONE END AND EXTENDING RADIALLY OUTWARD FROM THE CONVEX SURFACE OF THE FIRST MEMBER, SAID MEANS SECURING THE TWO MEMBERS TOGETHER TO ESTABLISH A SELECTED OVERALL LENGTH;

A MANUALLY OPERABLE PRESSURE SCREW EXTENDING ROTATABLY THROUGH THE OTHER END OF A SELECTED ONE OF THE MEMBERS;

A FIRST RUBBER PAD SECURED TO ONE END OF SAID SCREW AND DISPOSED BETWEEN THE OTHER ENDS OF SAID MEMBERS;

AND A SECOND RUBBER PAD SECURED TO THE CONCAVE SURFACE OF THE OTHER MEMBER ADJACENT THE SAID OTHER END OF SAID OTHER MEMBER.

2. A tourniquet as set forth in claim 1 wherein the second number is the selected member.

3. A tourniquet as set forth in claim 2 wherein a sheet of gauze is secured to the first pad.