Patent ID: 7785329

Claim:
A surgical device, which comprises: a) an elongated housing extending along an axis to first and second housing portions having respective first and second housing ends, the elongated housing comprised of at least a first and a second housing member that are separable from one another approximately along a plane substantially parallel to the axis of the elongated housing; and b) a capture mechanism, wherein at least one of the first and second housing ends is retained to hold parallel adjacent surface portions of the first and second housing members in a face-to-face contact relationship by the capture mechanism, the first and second housing members being transversely separable from one another with respect to said axis along the parallel adjacent surface portions, the capture mechanism comprising: i) a locking ring; ii) an annular sleeve to which a repositionable handle is attached; iii) an elastic device biasing between the locking ring and the annular sleeve; and iv) a locking sleeve, wherein the elastic device biases the locking ring into a locking position holding the first and second housing members together in the face-to-face relationship, and wherein the elastic device also biases the annular sleeve, and thus the repositionable handle, into a locked angular position about an axis of the handle, wherein removal of the locking ring against an elastic bias of the elastic device unfastens an end of the housing in order to facilitate disassembly of the first and second housing members.