Surgical Clamp
date: label: Date made
content: 1983
name: label: maker
content: Narco Scientific. Pilling Division
notes: label: Description
content: Surgical clamp with "Lifelok" and "PAT 3608554" inscriptions. Pilling filed for a trademark on the term “LIFE LOK” and the associated insignia in 1974.
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 Co., Cardiovascular, Thoracic and General Surgery Instruments (Philadelphia, 1979), p. 247.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Fort Washington
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1994.0365.04
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0365.04
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: 6.5 cm x 8.7 cm x 28 cm; 2 9/16 in x 3 7/16 in x 11 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 11 in x 4 in; 12.065 cm x 27.94 cm x 10.16 cm