Patent ID: 6161812
Filing Date: 2000-12-19
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
A resilient clamp for closing flexible hoses of infusion, transfusion and the like equipment, comprising a body forming in one single piece an upper arm, a lower arm and a curved end portion having a substantially semi-circular shape and elastically interconnecting said upper and lower arms, wherein said lower arm has on the side opposite to said curved end portion of said body an elastic branch bent towards said upper arm and having an anchoring member, and said upper arm is provided, also on the side opposite to said curved end portion of said body, with a maneuver portion and an anchoring element complementary to said anchoring member of said elastic branch of said lower arm and releasably engageable with said anchoring member, said upper and lower arms being further formed with respective clamping projections facing towards the inside of said body and displaceable between a mutually distal position, corresponding to disengaged condition between said anchoring member and said anchoring element, and a mutually proximal position, corresponding to an engaged condition between said anchoring member and said anchoring element, wherein said curved end portion of said body and said elastic branch of said lower arm are formed with respective apertures defining a passageway for a flexible hose fitted through said body between said upper and lower arms, said maneuver portion of said upper arm is raised with respect to said anchoring element to protect the anchoring member from accidental disengagement from the anchoring element, and wherein at least a portion of the maneuver portion is raised with respect to said anchoring member.