Improvements in Embryotomy and Parturition Instruments Employed by Veterinary Surgeons.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 26th Nov., 1897--Accepted, 26th Feb., 1898
Improvements in Embryotomy and Parturition Instruments
Employed by Veterinary Surgeons.
GEORGE FREDRICK GOOCH, 30, Priory Terrace, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England,
Veterinary Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in instruments employed by veterinary
surgeons and others in certain cases of embryotomy and difficult cases of parturition.
My invention consists of a pair of incurved blades or cutting jaws being worked by
means of levers, or other device, and manipulated by a screw from a long handle.
The said screw is protected by a cylindrical sheath.
For certain cases it is necessary to employ incurved hooks in lieu of the aforesaid
cutting jaws.
Improvements in Embryotomy and Parturition Instruments
Employed by Veterinary Surgeons.
I, GEORGE FREDRICK GOOCH, Veterinary Surgeon, residing at 30, Priory Terrace,
Stamford, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in instruments employed by veterinary
surgeons in difficult and obstinate cases of embryotomy and parturition and the
like.
My invention consists of a metal rod or bar having a pair of cutting jaws, grips,
claws or the like fitted at one end of the said rod or bar, the jaws, grips, claws, or the
like are attached to the rod or bar by means of jointed levers and opened and closed
by means of a screw tapped on the end of the rod or bar and working within a
correspondingly tapped socket. The rod or bar is attached to the parts which carry
the tapped socket by means of a set screw which passes through the outer part into
the bar. The said bar having a suitable groove or chase cut or otherwise prepared
in its outer surface to enable the rod or bar to be turned as desired to manipulate
the cutting jaws or the like, the jointed levers are attached to each other and to the
tapped socket, by loose rivets or pins.
Fig. 1 of the accompying drawing shows a section of the invention.

page_text: D is the screw tapped on the end of rod or bar; E is a correspondingly tapped
socket carrying the jointed levers C; B is one of the cutting jaws which are opened
or closed by turning the rod or bar A; the said rod or bar may terminate at the
outer end with a knob or other suitable handle.
F is a set screw to connect the rod or bar to the parts which carry the socket
and cutting jaws, H is groove or chase for F to revolve in, K shows the part
which carries the rivet or pivot upon which the cutting jaws work and extends on two
sides only.
The socket is sufficiently long to act as a shield or guard for the screw arrange-
ment. When it is desired to make use of the improved instrument the jaws, grips,
claws or the like are closed and the instrument partly inserted into the animal,
with the hand of the person who desires to perform the operation.
The jaws, grips, claws or the like may be of various shapes and sizes to suit
various kinds of internal operations connected with embryotomy and the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1st The construction of embryotomy instruments, to be used in cases of parturition
operations and the like, substantially as set forth and described.
.
Dated this 5th day of November 1907