Patent ID: 8556899

Claim:
Surgical instrument, with a shaft and with a one-piece sliding part longitudinally displaceable relative to the shaft, with which a grip part is associated, pivotable about a pivot axis, for longitudinal displacement, wherein the sliding part is able to be transferred from a working position, in which the sliding part is guided longitudinally displaceably on the shaft in a guide, into a cleaning position, in which the sliding part is freed from the guide and is pivotable relative to the shaft about a rotation axis oriented perpendicularly to the longitudinal extent of the shaft so that both ends of the sliding part rotate about the rotation axis, wherein the rotation axis is aligned perpendicularly to the pivot axis of the pivotable grip part, the sliding part having a laterally open recess at a proximal end of the sliding part, wherein the pivotable grip part is engaged in the laterally open recess in the working position of the sliding part and disengaged from the laterally open recess in the cleaning position, wherein the rotation axis is formed by a pin.