Patent ID: 8097023

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a receiver member defining a channel to receive a part of an elongated member, said receiver member having at least one aperture to receive a closure member and an opening transverse to said channel; a grommet member defining a passage to receive a part of a bone implant member, said grommet member having an extension transverse to said passage, said extension having at least two prongs that are movable relative to one another; wherein said at least two prongs of said extension have an unstressed state and are compressed toward one another to a compressed state so that said extension is sized to be inserted into said opening of said receiver member, and wherein said at least two prongs of said extension are expanded away from one another within said opening of said receiver member toward said unstressed state to provide a snap fit connection between said grommet member and said receiver member wherein said grommet member is non-threadedly and rotatably connected to said receiver member along a rotation axis; a first disk adjacent said receiver member, said first disk having a first surface with a contact portion for contacting an elongated member and a second roughened surface; and a second disk adjacent said grommet member, said second disk having a first surface with a groove for contacting a bone implant member and a second roughened surface; wherein said second surfaces of said first and second disks face each other.