Patent ID: 7470278

Claim:
A medical gripping and/or retaining instrument comprising a handle comprising two handgrips; and a retaining part comprising two jaw members capable of activation by the handle, wherein the jaw members can be rotated with respect to one another about a swivel axis; and distinguished in that the first jaw member, to receive the swivel axis, has two parallel side walls set apart from one another and the second jaw member is configured in the area between the two parallel side walls as a stud, which is mounted at a distance from both walls on the common swivel axis in such a way that the second jaw member of the retaining part can rotate around its longitudinal axis; and wherein the stud forming a hub in the area of the mounting on the swivel axis has a bore hole, and the stud is configured so that the bore hole in the stud forming the hub tapers from both sides of the stud to the middle of the bore hole all the way to the outer diameter of the swivel axis.