Patent ID: 8377061

Claim:
Apparatus for external fixation of bone fragments, wherein the apparatus comprises: a housing including an internal mounting surface and an aperture; a pin holder held within the housing, including a spherically rounded external surface engaging the internal mounting surface within the housing, a pin mounting hole extending in a straight line through a center of the spherical rounded external surface between first and second ends of the pin holder, and a first slot, disposed along a plane perpendicular to the pin mounting hole to extend outward from the pin mounting hole in all directions perpendicular to the pin mounting hole, extending across the pin mounting hole and partially across the pin holder, displaced inward from a first end of the pin mounting hole, forming a first deflectable portion of the pin holder extending between the first slot and the first end of the pin mounting hole; a bone pin, held within the pin mounting hole of the pin holder to extend through the aperture, wherein an angle, relative to the housing, at which the bone pin extends through the aperture is varied by pivoting the pin holder within the housing, and a clamping member holding the pin holder in place within the housing and deflecting the first deflectable portion of the pin holder to hold the bone pin in place within the pin holder.