Richard Wolf Gmbh

Joachim Peuckert

Michael Meyer

Jurgen Gobel

There is disclosed a rack with receptacles for medical forceps. The forceps comprise a forceps jaw at the distal end of a shank and a handle with two scissor type grips which can be spread apart for opening the forceps jaw. To each of the receptacles arranged parallel to one another, in each case, there are allocated two grip supports fixing the grips in their spread apart position, a shank support for the shank and two lateral supports for the handle. This achieves the object that after the insertion into the rack has been effected, the opened forceps jaw parts cannot close.

Rack for medical forceps

The invention relates to a holding arm system, particularly for holding surgical instruments in the region of an operation, with a holding arm incorporated into arm segments and into hinge joints connecting these. The holding arm at the proximal end is fastened to a rail which is guided in a horizontal position on the operating table. Each arm segment comprises straight-lined tube segments as outer sleeves and, in each arm tube, a shaft which is axially rotatable relative to the arm tube and which, with conical gearwheels on the end faces, engages into the shaft of the repective connecting arm segment. A fastening device is operable from a single arm segment and locks the whole holding arm by way of a braking device which engages at a defined location within the arm tube and by these means prevents the rotating of the shafts, connected with a positive fit, in the arm segments.

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Bonningheim, Germany

Joachim Peuckert