Patent ID: 6129330
Filing Date: 2000-10-10
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
A roller clamp for regulating fluid flow through elastically deformable tubing, comprising a generally channel-shaped body having two lateral walls and a bottom wall defining a clamping surface along at least part of which a central longitudinal groove is formed having an initial end and a terminal end and having a cross section which is decreasingly variable from said initial end towards said terminal end, and a roller rotatably supported by said lateral walls of the body and longitudinally displaceable in a guided fashion within said body substantially parallel to said clamping surface of the bottom wall so as to clamp in use an elastically deformable tubing fitted through the body between said bottom wall and said roller, wherein lateral longitudinal recesses are formed between said clamping surface of said bottom wall and said lateral walls of said body, along at least part of said central longitudinal groove, each lateral recess being defined in part by a depression of said bottom wall and in part by an undercut of the respective lateral wall.