Patent ID: 8556915

Claim:
A skin removal instrument, comprising: first and second resilient arms, each of said first and second arms including a main body having a middle, an attachment end and a nipping end opposite said attachment end, said attachment ends of said first and second arms being attached to one another, thereby forming a spring area allowing said nipping ends of said first and second arms to resiliently move toward and away from each other, each of said first and second arms including an outer gripping area disposed offset from said middle of said main body of said first and second arms, respectively, said outer gripping area having a substantially bulbous shape such that a width of said outer gripping area is substantially wider than a width of the remainder of said main body of each of said first and second arms, and each of said nipping ends of said first and second arms including an extension portion that extends from said main body and a nipping blade portion that extends from said extension portion, each of said nipping blade portions having an angled surface angled downwardly from an inner surface of said extension portions, respectively, such that said nipping blade portions converge toward one another, and each of said nipping blade portions including a nipping edge at an end of said respective angled surface, said nipping edges always being parallel to each other, wherein said nipping blade portions meet and said nipping edges meet when said first and second arms are compressed together to remove a section of skin.