Patent ID: RE42050

Claim:
A laparoscopic specimen extractor comprising: (a) an outer tube assembly insertable in an incision or trocar; (b) an inner tube assembly slidably mounted coaxially in said outer tube to slide between a retracted position to a deployed position and having an operator end and a patient end; (c) a cage having one end securely coupled to said patient end and a free end wherein, when said inner tube assembly is in said retracted position, said cage is collapsed and contained in said outer tube assembly and, when said inner tube assembly is in said deployed position, said cage is at least partially ejected from said outer tube assembly and said free end automatically opened and expanded into a tulip shape, said cage comprising a plurality of spaced spring loaded strips secured to the inner circumferential wall of said patient end of said inner tube assembly and which project from said patient end wherein said free end of said cage comprises tips of said plurality of spaced spring loaded strips, each strip having a free end twisted approximately 90° (ninety degrees) with respect to the rest of itself to form a twisted section and a hole is bored in such twisted section wherein said twisted section is substantially perpendicular to a center axis of said inner tube assembly and said cage and wherein as the twisted sections are cinched closed, said cage forms a substantially elliptical or football shape; (d) means journalled through said inner tube assembly and secured to said free end of said cage for cinching closed said free end; and, (e) a pathway coaxially through said inner tube assembly and said cage and adapted to have journalled therethrough said cinching close means, adapted to have inserted coaxially therethrough a grasping laparoscopic instrument for retrieving a specimen, adapted to have retracted therethrough said grasping laparoscopic instrument to deposit said specimen in said cage and adapted to aspirate or morcelate said specimen in said cage therethrough.