Multipack package

• US 5,947,296 A
• Filed: 10/30/1997
• Issued: 09/07/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Glens Falls Corp. (AngioDynamics, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Schneider/Namic
• Inventors: Castora, Valarie M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sewell, Paul T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BUI, LUAN KIM
• Application Number:
  US08/961,172
• Time in Patent Office: 677 Days
• Field of Search: 206/363, 206/364, 206/370, 206/438, 206/439, 206/461, 206/466, 206/484, 206/484.2, 206/570, 206/571, 206/806, 206/476-478, 383/37, 383/38
• US Class Current: 206/571
• 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

Abstract

A package for containing medical implements in separate pouches packaged together in a continuous strip. The pouches are spaced from one another along the strip and each is maintained in sterile condition until opened. The pouches can be separated one from the other while maintaining the sterility of each pouch and the opening of one pouch can be attained without breaching the integrity and sterility of the another pouch. Each pouch can be opened independently and stored jointly or singly.

Claims

1. A package for medical implements comprising first and second substantially coextensive layers of materials each having first and second longitudinal and transverse edges, said layers being sealed together about said edges, first and second transverse margins being spaced from each other and being disposed intermediate said first and said second transverse edges, with said transverse margins each creating a seal joining said layers together to form first and second sealed pouches;

wherein at least one of said first and second pouches contains a card including means for holding packaged items;

wherein one of said first and second pouches contains an introducer sheath and a dilator; and

the other of said first and second pouches contains at least one catheter.

2. The package according to claim 1 wherein the other of said first and second pouches further includes at least one guidewire.

3. A package for medical implements comprising first and second substantially coextensive layers of materials each having first and second longitudinal and transverse edges, said layers being sealed together about said edges, first and second transverse margins being spaced from each other and being disposed intermediate said first and said second transverse edges, with said transverse margins each creating a seal joining said layers together to form first and second sealed pouches;

wherein at least one of said first and second pouches contains a card including means for holding packaged items;

wherein one of said first and second pouches contains an introducer sheath and a dilator; and

the other of said first and second pouches contains a card and at least one catheter mounted on a first side of said card.

4. A package for medical implements, comprising;

first and second substantially co-extensive layers of materials each having first and second longitudinal and transverse edges, said layers being sealed together about said edges;

first and second transverse margins being spaced from each other and being disposed intermediate said first and second transverse edges, with said transverse margins each creating a seal joining said layers together to form first and second sealed pouches;

wherein one of said first and second pouches contains an introducer sheath and a dilator;

wherein the other of said first and second pouches contains a card and at least one catheter mounted on a first side of said card; and

said package further including at least one guidewire and means for mounting said guidewire on a second side of said card.

5. The package according to claim 4 wherein said means is at least one tab coupling said guidewire to said card.

6. The package according to claim 5 wherein said means further includes at least one flap coupling said guidewire to said card.

7. The package according to claim 4 further including a sleeve sized and configured to enclose at least a portion of said guidewire to maintain said guidewire in a predetermined orientation.

8. The package according to claim 4 further including one or more clips to maintain said guidewire in a predetermined orientation.

9. The package according to claim 4 further including a tube surrounding said guidewire.