Glover Coarctation Clamp
date: label: Date made
content: 1983
name: label: maker
content: Narco Scientific. Pilling Division
notes: label: Description
content: Surgical clamp with “LifeLok” and “PILLING / USA P1” and “PAT. 3608554” inscriptions. Pilling filed for a trademark on the term “LIFE LOK” and the associated insignia in 1974. The form was associated with Robert Prentice Glover (1913-1961), a prominent and pioneering cardiac surgeon.
label: Description
content: Ref: Michael G. McGuinness and William H. Pilling, “Surgical Clamping Means,” U.S. Patent 3,608,554 (Sept. 28, 1971).
label: Description
content: Pilling Company, Cardiovascular, Thoracic and General Surgery Instruments (Philadelphia, 1979), p. 245.
label: Description
content: “Robert P. Glover, A Heart Surgeon,” New York Times (Feb. 2, 1961), p. 29.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Fort Washington
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Pilling Weck
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0365.07
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0365.07
label: accession number
content: 1994.0365
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Clamp
label: Object Name
content: clamp
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
label: Other Terms
content: Clamp; Grasping and Fixating Instruments; Vascular
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, stainless steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: .8 cm x 8.2 cm x 22.8 cm; 5/16 in x 3 1/4 in x 9 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 9 in x 3 1/2 in; .635 cm x 22.86 cm x 8.89 cm