Patent ID: 8864660

Claim:
A self-retaining vaginal retractor with a weighted speculum comprising a speculum body of said weighted speculum including a speculum blade extended from said speculum body; a middle portion, and a tubular means extending from said middle portion; a swollen portion extended from said middle portion; an elongated lower portion extended from said swollen portion; a speculum projection extending from said swollen portion, wherein said speculum projection includes teeth; a handle means including a handle projection and coupled by a fixing means with said speculum projection, wherein said fixing means comprises a pawl sprung by a spring and including a cam located on one side of said pawl, wherein said cam rests on a tooth of said teeth; a fixation release trigger located on another side of said pawl and extended outside of said handle means, wherein said pawl is coupled with said handle means by a second pin located between handle means extensions, and wherein said handle means is pivotable around said second pin; an auxiliary spring located between said handle means and said middle portion of said speculum body, said auxiliary spring biased to return said handle means to an initial position; a dilating mechanism of said self-retaining vaginal retractor with said weighted speculum, wherein said dilating mechanism includes a left dilating portion comprising a left hook comprising a free end; a left knee comprising a first aperture and a recess; a left blade holder comprising an upper end coupled with a left blade; a right dilating portion coupled by a first pin with said left dilating portion, wherein said right dilating portion comprises a right hook comprising a free end; a right knee comprising a second aperture and a right knee projection, which is unobstructedly inserted in said recess; a right blade holder comprising an upper end coupled with a right blade, wherein said left dilating portion is counter clockwise pivotable around said first pin and said right dilating portion is clockwise pivotable around said first pin; a main cable, unobstructedly passing through said tubular means, and a lower end of which is coupled with said handle projection, wherein an upper end of said main cable is by a cable connecting means coupled with a first end of a left cable and with a first end of a right cable, and wherein a second end of said left cable is coupled with said free end of said left hook and a second end of said right cable is coupled with said free end of said right hook.