Sterile sealed packaging envelope

• US 4,997,092 A
• Filed: 02/23/1990
• Issued: 03/05/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: George Z. Dupont
• Original Assignee: George Z. Dupont
• Inventors: Dupont, George Z.
• Primary Examiner(s): Price, William I.
• Application Number:
  US07/483,678
• Time in Patent Office: 375 Days
• Field of Search: 206/632, 206/631, 206/813
• US Class Current: 206/363
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/00072 Packaging of dressings
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/02 Adhesive bandages or dressings
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 15/001 Packages or dispensers for bandages, cotton balls, drapes, dressings, gauze, gowns, sheets, sponges, swabsticks or towels A61F15/007 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2013/00795 special helping devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2013/00897 package for individual plaster
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/813 Adhesive

Abstract

The present invention discloses an adhesively sealed, sterile, packaging apparatus that includes a sterile envelope having a sterile compartment to receive all or part of a sterile article therein and wherein a second embodiment is included having two half sections that are adhesively sealed and joined together so as to allow a sterile article to be encapsulated within the sterile envelope defined thereby. Each embodiment provides a sterile enviroment therein and allows the envelope or sections thereof to be readily pulled apart without contaminating the sterile article.

Claims

1. A sterile packaging envelope in combination with a sterile article partially enclosed and sealed therein, said combination comprising:

a sterile sealable envelope having a sealable open end in which a sterile compartment is defined thereby;

a sterile article having a selective portion thereof sealed and encapsulated in said sterile compartment;

said open end of said envelope being defined by a pair of folded lip members positioned for engagement with said article; and

means for securing said lip members to said sterile article whereby at least a portion of said sterile article is sealed in the sterile environment of said sterile compartment, wherein said securing means comprises adhesive means positioned between said folded lip members and said article, and wherein said adhesive means is positioned on said sterile article for sealing engagement with said lip members of said envelope, whereby said lip members are lifted and peeled upwardly and downwardly as said envelope is pulled from said article.