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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
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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.

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