Amniotomy glove

• US 6,409,734 B1
• Filed: 07/09/1999
• Issued: 06/25/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Helio Zapata
• Original Assignee: Helio Zapata
• Inventors: Zapata, Helio
• Primary Examiner(s): Lucchesi, Nicholas D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Priddy, Michael B.
• Application Number:
  US09/349,798
• Time in Patent Office: 1,082 Days
• Field of Search: 606/119, 606/125, 216/17, 216/0
• US Class Current: 606/125
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/4208 Instruments for rupturing the amniotic membrane
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 42/00 Surgical gloves; Finger-stalls specially adapted for surgery; Devices for handling or treatment thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 42/10 Surgical gloves

Abstract

An amniotomy glove incorporating a puncturing hook in the shape of a falcon'"'"'s beak mounted on a structural base which is bonded to the inner surface of a latex physician'"'"'s glove at a location spaced slightly from the tip of middle finger stall of said glove. The hook extends through wall of the middle finger stall and is bonded to the latex wall of said middle finger stall.

Claims

1. An amniotomy glove formed of flexible elastic latex material and capable of fitting on the hand of the users said glove having thumb and finger stalls including a middle finger stall having an interior wall and a tip and capable of receiving the middle finger of the user, a structural base element having a puncturing hook portion bonded thereto, said structural base element being bonded to the interior wall of said middle finger stall at a location adjacent but spaced slightly from the tip of said middle finger stall with said puncturing hook portion extending through the interior wall of said middle finger enabling said puncturing hook portion to pierce the amniotic membrane for effecting the rupture thereof.

2. The amniotomy glove according to claim 1 wherein said glove has a palm side and said structural base element is in the form of a generally flat piece of material bonded to the inner surface of said middle finger stall that is on the palm side of said glove and located adjacent the tip of said middle finger stall.

3. The amniotomy glove according to claim 1 in which the tip of said middle finger stall is of curved configuration and said puncturing hook extends outward of the wall thereof.

4. The amniotomy glove according to claim 1 in which said puncturing hook portion extends outward at a location spaced from the tip of said middle finger stall.

5. The amniotomy glove according to claim 1 in which said puncturing hook portion has the configuration of an inverted falcon'"'"'s beak.

6. The amniotomy glove according to claim 1 in which said hook portion extends outward and in a direction along the tip of middle finger stall and with the point thereof directed toward the palm of the hand of the user.