Package for sterile storage of surgical devices and accessories

• US 3,315,802 A
• Filed: 10/22/1965
• Issued: 04/25/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Henrik Bjarno Knud Maro, Ronnow Lonholdt Hans Christian
• Original Assignee: Henrik Bjarno Knud Maro, Ronnow Lonholdt Hans Christian
• Inventors: RONNOW LONHOLDT HANS CHRISTIAN, HENRIK BJARNO KNUD MARO
• Application Number:
  US04/501,752
• Time in Patent Office: 550 Days
• US Class Current: 206/205
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/06133 of parallelepipedal shape, e.g. made of rectangular or slightly oval panels
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/30 Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments for wound clamps A61B17/10; for ligaturing clips A61B17/122; packages or dispensers for surgical gloves or finger-stalls A61B42/40
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/002 Packages specially adapted therefor combined with means for introducing catheters, e.g. dispensers, A61M25/0113; catheter kit packages for surgical articles A61B50/30

Claims

1. A PACKAGE FOR STERILE STORAGE OF SUTURE AND LIGATURE MATERIAL, HAEMOSTATIC FORCEPS, WOUND RETRACTORS, KNIVES, CATHETERS, AND OTHER SURGICAL DEVICES WHICH COMPRISES AN ENVELOPE FOR HOLDING AT LEAST ONE OF SAID DEVICES, SAID ENVELOPE HAVING A CLOSED BOTTOM AND SIDEWALLS JOINED WITH ONE ANOTHER A SELECTED DISTANCE FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE ENVELOPE, SAID SIDE WALLS BEING FLEXIBLE AND EXTENDING BEYOND THE JOINED PORTION TO FORM FLAPS, SAID FLAPS BEING LOADED WITH SUCH WEIGHT THAT WHEN THE ENVELOPE IS PLACED BOTTOM DOWN, SAID FLAPS FALL OUT TO THE SIDES AND THEREBY PROVIDE FREE AND EASY ADMISSION TO THE INTERIOR OF THE ENVELOPE.