Multi-level instrument organizer

• US 20040206711A1
• Filed: 11/12/2003
• Published: 10/21/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Moshe Hoftman
• Original Assignee: Moshe Hoftman
• Inventors: Hoftman, Moshe
• Application Number:
  US10/706,355
• Publication Number:
  US 20040206711A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 211/85.13
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2050/3007 Stackable casings
• 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 50/22 Racks

Abstract

The present invention is a stackable surgical instrument organizer with slots defined beneath upward U-shaped extensions for compact stacking of multiple organizers.

Claims

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.

2. The organizers of claim 1 wherein a first organizer is placed on top of a second organizer so that each of the lower support loops of the second organizer project into the lower loop slots of the first organizer.

3. The organizer of claim 2 wherein each of the upper support loops of the second organizer project into the upper loop slots of the first organizer.

4. The organizer of claim 3 wherein end walls of the box bases of the organizers are provided with connector means for connecting in an end to end orientation.

5. The organizer of claim 1 wherein the lower support loops have an elevation no higher than a top edge of the cavity forward wall.