Multi-level instrument organizer
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1. A plurality of disposable polymer and stackable surgical instrument organizers, each organizer adapted to support surgical instruments having a single pivot connection for two long shanks at about a midpoint of those shanks and having two finger rings at proximal ends of two pivoted shanks, each organizer comprising:
- (a) four or more adjacent supporting means secured to a rectangular box base formed with base length walls and base end walls;
(b) each of the supporting means extending laterally and perpendicular to the base length walls and adapted to support substantially edgewise a single surgical instrument of substantially any length from only one of the finger rings and lateral sides of the shanks so that distal ends of the shanks lie on a tabletop when the base rests thereon, each supporting means further comprising a lower support and an upper support;
(c) a lower cavity containing the lower supports, where the lower cavity is defined by an inside surface of one of the base length walls, inside surfaces of the base end walls, a cavity floor, and an inside surface of a cavity forward wall substantially adjacent to rearward edges of the upper supports;
(d) the lower supports each comprising two upside down and vertical U-shaped lower support loops spaced apart, parallel and secured at legs in rearward and forward locations in the cavity floor to form a ring handle slot adapted to receive and support the ring handle of a surgical instrument;
(e) lower loop slots defined in the lower cavity floor vertically beneath each lower support loop, each lower loop slot having a width greater than a thickness of the lower support loops;
(f) an upper floor extending from a top edge of the cavity forward wall to the second base length wall, where upper supports each comprise two upside down and vertical U-shaped lower support loops spaced apart, parallel and secured at legs in rearward and forward locations in the upper floor to form a shank slot adapted to receive and support the lateral sides of the pivoted shanks of a surgical instrument; and
(g) upper loop slots defined in the upper floor vertically beneath each upper support loop, each upper loop slot having a width greater than a thickness of the upper support loops.
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The present invention is a stackable surgical instrument organizer with slots defined beneath upward U-shaped extensions for compact stacking of multiple organizers.
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1. A plurality of disposable polymer and stackable surgical instrument organizers, each organizer adapted to support surgical instruments having a single pivot connection for two long shanks at about a midpoint of those shanks and having two finger rings at proximal ends of two pivoted shanks, each organizer comprising:
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(a) four or more adjacent supporting means secured to a rectangular box base formed with base length walls and base end walls;
(b) each of the supporting means extending laterally and perpendicular to the base length walls and adapted to support substantially edgewise a single surgical instrument of substantially any length from only one of the finger rings and lateral sides of the shanks so that distal ends of the shanks lie on a tabletop when the base rests thereon, each supporting means further comprising a lower support and an upper support;
(c) a lower cavity containing the lower supports, where the lower cavity is defined by an inside surface of one of the base length walls, inside surfaces of the base end walls, a cavity floor, and an inside surface of a cavity forward wall substantially adjacent to rearward edges of the upper supports;
(d) the lower supports each comprising two upside down and vertical U-shaped lower support loops spaced apart, parallel and secured at legs in rearward and forward locations in the cavity floor to form a ring handle slot adapted to receive and support the ring handle of a surgical instrument;
(e) lower loop slots defined in the lower cavity floor vertically beneath each lower support loop, each lower loop slot having a width greater than a thickness of the lower support loops;
(f) an upper floor extending from a top edge of the cavity forward wall to the second base length wall, where upper supports each comprise two upside down and vertical U-shaped lower support loops spaced apart, parallel and secured at legs in rearward and forward locations in the upper floor to form a shank slot adapted to receive and support the lateral sides of the pivoted shanks of a surgical instrument; and
(g) upper loop slots defined in the upper floor vertically beneath each upper support loop, each upper loop slot having a width greater than a thickness of the upper support loops. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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