Packaging assembly for surgical use

• US 6,915,901 B2
• Filed: 12/10/2001
• Issued: 07/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ethicon Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: Ethicon Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Whitehall, Richard, Fort, Tucker H., Feinberg, Marc, Peters, Robin, Stairs, Lance, Pohle, Mike
• Primary Examiner(s): Yu, Mickey
• Assistant Examiner(s): PICKETT, JOHN G
• Application Number:
  US10/016,240
• Publication Number:
  US 20020108875A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,310 Days
• Field of Search: 206363-365, 206/63.3, 206/63.5, 206/219, 206/221, 206/438, 206/439, 206/564, 206/223, 206570-572, 206/443, 206/471, 206/277, 206/377, 206/378, 206/486, 206/477, D24/227, D24/229, 606/214
• US Class Current: 206/363
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/00491 Surgical glue applicators surgical adhesives A61L24/00; two-component delivery syringes A61M5/19
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/20 Holders specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments drapes with means to hold surgical instruments A61B46/23; for catheters A61M25/02
• 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

Abstract

A package assembly holds at least one applicator nozzle tip and, optionally, a fluid-containing vial adapted for attachment to the nozzle tip. By providing the vial with a fluid-dispensing end, it may be used with or without the nozzle tip. When used in combination, the vial and nozzle tip can be employed to dispense, for instance, a medical adhesive to a wound site.

Claims

1. A package, comprising a first product component;

first holding means for releasably holding said first product component;

a second product component; and

second holding means for releasably holding said second product component such that said second product component is attachable to said first product component without removing either of said product components from said package, said first and second product components being movable relative to each other while they are held by said first and second holding means, respectively, said first holding means holding said first product component in a substantially fixed position relative to said package and said second holding means holding said second product component such that it is movable relative to said package between a first position, in which said second product component is detached from said first product component, and a second position, in which said second product component is attached to said first product component, whereby said first and second product components can be removed from the package as a unit.

2. A package according to claim 1, wherein said second holding means holds said second product component such that it is slidable from said first position to said second position.

3. A package according to claim 2, wherein said package includes a tray containing said first and second holding means, said tray having an exterior shape which inhibits it from rolling.

4. A package according to claim 3, wherein said tray is removably received within another tray.

5. A package according to claim 4, wherein said tray has means for permitting it to be gripped by a user and manually removed from said another tray.

6. A package according to claim 4, wherein said tray has means for permitting it to be held by a user as said second product component is slid from said first position to said second position.

7. A package according to claim 2, wherein said package includes a housing containing said first and second holding means, said housing having an exterior shape which inhibits it from rolling.

8. A package according to claim 7, wherein said first holding means holds said first product component such that it is entirely contained within said housing and said second holding means holds said second product component such that it is only partially contained within said housing.