Disclosed is a wrapping cape system which displays favorable grasping characteristics in operations for the entrapment and removal of blocking items in tubular geometries The wrapping cape system yields a configuration that surrounds the blocking item, such as a thrombus, peripherally, thus capturing its body tangentially and allowing the operator to pull it along the surrounding tube (for instance vein or artery) by utilizing shear forces distributed along the surface of the blocking item in its axial direction. The advantage stems from the fact that the blocking item is not pushed from behind during its withdrawal, but pulled instead； also, since there is no penetration, fragmentation is avoided.
