Patent ID: 8142449

Claim:
A device for inserting at least one anchor piece into a hollow space of a living being, in order to fix a wall of said hollow space temporarily to a wall of a body of said human being by means of said anchor piece, comprising two shaft-like elements which are axially movable relative to one another along a longitudinal axis, wherein each of said two shaft-like elements has a jaw, and wherein one of said two shaft-like elements is designed as an outer tube having a distal end, and the other is designed as an axially displaceable inner shaft received in said outer tube, a distal end of said inner shaft is designed as a tip having a proximal end, said jaws being axially spaced apart along said longitudinal axis, at least one anchor piece having two axially spaced apart opposite ends, said at least one anchor piece can be held captive between said axially spaced apart jaws of said two shaft-like elements at said axially spaced apart opposite ends, wherein one of said jaws is arranged on said distal end of said outer tube, and the other one of said jaws is arranged on said proximal end of said tip of said inner shaft, wherein each of said jaws has at least one pocket, a shape of said pocket corresponds to a shape of one of said opposite ends of said anchor piece held by said pocket, wherein the at least one pocket of each of said jaws contacts a respective opposite end of said anchor piece to prevent radial movement of said anchor piece, and an actuating mechanism via which at least one of said two shaft-like elements can be moved in such a way that said anchor piece held between said two shaft-like elements can be released.