Patent ID: 8608774

Claim:
A bifurcated forceps, comprising: mutually opposed first and second arms, each of the arms being an elongate, wide, thin, flexible sheet of material having a proximal end portion permanently affixed to the proximal end portion of the opposite arm along the entirety of the proximal end portions, the arms being compressible towards each other and resiliently returning to their original position when released, each of the arms further having an intermediate portion and a distal portion, wherein the intermediate portions of each of the arms diverge angularly from one another from their mutually attached proximal end portions toward their distal portions and the distal portions of each of the arms are spaced apart from one another and parallel to one another throughout their entire length; each of the distal portions having: a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the first side and the second side of the distal portions defining a slot therebetween; an elongate first tine extending from the first side of each of the distal portions; an elongate second tine extending from the second side of each of the distal portions, the second tines being separated laterally from the corresponding first tines so that each of the distal portions has a pair of tines, the pairs of tines having mutually facing gripping surfaces having a plurality of serrations extending laterally across the tines, the serrations being disposed along the majority of the length of each of the tines; whereby the forceps is adapted for simultaneously gripping an elongate object at two different locations between the two pairs of spaced apart tines.