Patent ID: 7473257

Claim:
Bending pliers for perforated bone plates, comprising: two jaws movable relative to one another, including a receiving jaw having two spaced-apart peg members at a fixed distance to one another with an axial extent and having a first circumference operable for insertion through holes of a substantially planar bone plate to be received, the peg members having an outside diameter which is variable along their axial extent in order to cooperate with different hole types; and a pressure-exerting jaw comprising a pressure-exerting element which, when the bending pliers are actuated, cooperates with a received bone plate in a region between the two peg members, wherein the pressure-exerting element is of a substantially peg-shaped design and has a second circumference inoperable to engage the holes of the bone plate; wherein the two peg members of the receiving jaw are fixed along a single axis; wherein the pressure exerting jaw is selectively operable to move transverse to the single axis.