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US 4,046,254 AGranted
Surgical trays
OwnerSteven G. Kramerinventor
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Abstract
A surgical instrument tray which may be used for protectively holding surgical instruments during sterilization and storing thereof as well as for so holding the instruments for ready accessibility thereto during an operation, the tray embodying a plurality of compartments which may be programmed as to size and location for holding complete sets of instruments therein in the order of use of the individual instruments during a particular type of surgical procedure, with the compartments embodied in resilient, sterilizable material which is effective to protect the instruments against damage.
Claims3
A surgical instrument tray comprising
- a. a base having
- 1. an upper face, and
- 2. a plurality of spaced, upwardly opening compartments in said upper face for receiving and removably storing individual surgical instruments in respective ones of said compartments,
- b. each of said compartments having
- 1. a compressible, resilient bottom wall portion, and
- 2. a compressible, resilient, upstanding peripheral sidewall portion, and
- c. a cover removably mounted on top of said base,
- d. said cover having compressible, resilient portions extending across the tops of said compartments in closing relation thereto,
- e. said base including a sheet member
- 1. having openings therethrough corresponding to said compartments, and
- 2. disposed between said bottom wall portions and said sidewall portions with said openings defining the lower end portions of respective ones of said compartments.
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