Patent ID: 6953430

Claim:
A pincerlike instrument for an endoscope, comprising: a flexible sheath; a pair of limbs provided at the fore-end of said flexible sheath, that open and close as a pincers, by remote operations from the base-end of said flexible sheath; a water supply channel that is formed inside said flexible sheath for ejecting water from the fore-end of said flexible sheath by supplying said water from said base-end of said flexible sheath; and a pair of pivots such that one pivot of said pair of pivots is arranged on one side of the axis and another pivot of said pair of pivots is arranged on another side of the axis, at the front-end section of said flexible sheath, wherein a water ejection opening of said water supply channel is disposed at the base portion of said pair of limbs and between said two limbs, with said water ejection opening facing forward, and wherein each of said limbs is separately rotatable about a respective pivot of said pair of pivots, and said water supply channel passes between said pair of pivots.