Apparatus for extracting a fetus through the natural genital tract of the mother

• US 5,207,687 A
• Filed: 01/16/1991
• Issued: 05/04/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gilles Bernon
• Original Assignee: Gilles Bernon
• Inventors: Bernon, Gilles
• Primary Examiner(s): ASCHENBRENNER, PETER
• Application Number:
  US07/635,538
• Time in Patent Office: 839 Days
• Field of Search: 606/119-124, 56/329, 56/332
• US Class Current: 606/122
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/442 without pivotal connections, e.g. using vacuum

Abstract

The apparatus comprises a carcass which includes a plurality of flexible rods arranged substantially as a corolla, and which are integral at one of their ends with a tubular hollow sleeve and at their opposite free ends with a crosslinked structure made of flexible material extending insider the corolla and of which the bottom is made integral with an appropriate traction member. The apparatus is designed for difficult deliveries of babies.

Claims

1. An apparatus for extracting a fetus through the natural genital tract of the mother, which comprises:

a tubular sleeve and a body having a plurality of flexible rods arranged substantially as a corolla, said rods being connected at one of their ends with said tubular hollow sleeve and at a free opposite end with a crosslinked structure made of flexible material, extending inside said corolla; and

a base connected with a traction member, wherein said crosslinked structure comprises two networks imbricated one in the other, of which one is a closed-mesh network and the other is a free-mesh network having braids, said braids including at ends thereof which extend inside said corolla, wherein traction strands are fixed to said ends, and wherein said traction strands terminate at an opposite end fixed to the crosslinked structure in an anchoring core positioned in said traction member.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, which comprises guide means for guiding said traction strands in said tubular sleeve.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claims 1 or 2, wherein the traction member comprises a cage member for receiving said anchoring core, a movable sleeve tube is mounted on said cage, and wherein a traction handle is connected to an end portion of said anchoring cage.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the sleeve tube is movably mounted to an end portion of the anchoring cage.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein said end portion is provided with a threaded portion corresponding to the initial internal thread portion of said sleeve tube.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein said sleeve includes a stop member and wherein the sleeve engages said stop of said sleeve.