Surgical instrument and connector for permitting independent assembly and disassembly of a mobile cutting element and a mobile grip from a fixed body of the instrument

摘要

A connecting device for a surgical instrument having at least one mobile cutting element which is reciprocally movable relative to a fixed jaw by operation of a resiliently loaded mobile grip wherein the connecting device includes an indexing mechanism which can be moved to a first position to permit mounting or removal of the mobile cutting element and a second position to permit independent mounting or removal of the mobile grip.