Catheter tubing clamp

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION, A SPRING CLAMP AND A RETENTION TYPE CATHETER, SAID CATHETER HAVING A FLEXIBLE TUBELIKE MAIN ARM CONTAINING A MAIN CHANNEL INCLUDING A CONNECTION END LEADING THEREINTO AND AN AUXILIARY CHANNEL, SAID MAIN ARM TERMINATING AT ITS OTHER EXTREMITY IN AN INSERTION END SUITABLE FOR INTRODUCTION INTO AN ANIMAL BODY, SAID INSERTION END CONTAINING AN APERTURE INTO SAID MAIN CHANNEL AND BEING FASTENED TO A COLLAPSED BALLOON, SAID BALLOON BEING CONNECTED TO SAID AUXILIARY CHANNEL AND BEING INFLATABLE, AFTER SAID INTRODUCTION, BY FLUID THEREFROM, SAID AUXILIARY CHANNEL BEING AN EXTENSION OF A SIDE ARM CHANNEL DIVERTING FROM SAID MAIN ARM AND CONTAINED IN A SIDE ARM ATTACHED TO SAID MAIN ARM ADJACENT THE CONNECTING END THEREOF, SAID SIDE ARM CHANNEL LEADING INTO A FLUID INFLATED CHAMBER IN SAID SIDE ARM, THE FLUID IN SAID CHAMBER BEING RETAINED THEREIN BY CLOSURE OF SAID SIDE ARM CHANNEL BY THE NIP PRESSURE OF SAID SPRING CLAMP, SAID SPRING CLAMP BEING FORMED OF AN INTEGRAL SPRING-METAL RIBBON BY A SERIES OF TRANSVERSE BENDS INTO A FORM RESEMBLING A CAPITAL A, THE NIP OF SAID CLAMP COMPRISING TWO LIP-LIKE REVERSE BENDS IN SPRING CONTACT WITH AND COMPRESSING SAID SIDE ARM AND CORRESPONDING TO THE TOP OF THE A, THE TWO ENDS OF SAID RIBBON CONSTITUTING FINGER GRIPPING ENDS OF SAID CLAMP CORRESPONDING TO THE LEGS OF SAID A, AND THE BRIDGE OF SAIC CLAMP CORRESPONDING TO THE BRIDGE OF SAID A FORMED BY FILLETED TRANSVERSE BENDS IN THAT PORTION OF SAID RIBBON INTERMEDIATE THE LIP-LIKE REVERSE BENDS, THERE BEING A HOLE IN SAID BRIDGE THROUGH WHICH SAID SIDE ARM IS THREADED, SAID INFLATED CHAMBER OF SAID SIDE ARM BEING SITUATED BETWEEN SAID FINGER GRIPPING ENDS AND BEING SEPARATED BY SAID BRIDGE FROM THAT PORTION OF SAID SIDE ARM COMPRESSED BY THE NIP OF SAID SPRING, WHEREBY PRESSURE URGING SAID FINGER GRIPPING ENDS INTO CLOSER RELATIONSHIP SEPARATES THE LIPS COMPRISING THE NIP OF SAID SPRING, RELEASES THE NIP PRESSURE CLOSING THE CHANNEL OF SAID SIDE ARM AND COMPRESSES THE INFLATED CHAMBER OF SAID SIDE ARM CAUSING FLUID TO MOVE FROM SAID CHAMBER INTO THE SIDE ARM CHANNEL HENCE INTO THE AUXILIARY CHANNEL AND FINALLY INTO THE COLLAPSED BALLOON TO INFLATE THE SAME.