A surgical tray system for retaining a plurality of surgical instruments, the surgical tray system comprising:
- an enclosure base, said enclosure base having a horizontal floor member and four vertical side members, two opposite ones of said vertical side members including handle means for enabling the user to carry side enclosure base, each of two opposite ones of said vertical side members having a pair of upwardly projecting positioning studs;
- a U-shaped instrument rack adapted for being removably positioned on said horizontal floor member of said enclosure base, said U-shaped instrument rack having a horizontal floor member, including feet means for elevating said floor member of said U-shaped instrument rack above said floor member of said enclosure base when said U-shaped instrument rack is positioned on said floor member of said enclosure base, said U-shaped instrument rack having two opposite vertical side members, including handle means for enabling the user to grasp said U-shaped instrument rack, each of said opposite vertical side members of said U-shaped instrument rack having a plurality of correspondingly shaped and positioned vertical slots opening at a top edge of each of said opposite vertical side members for retaining a plurality of surgical instruments such that a shaft portion of each of said plurality of surgical instruments is supported within a pair of corresponding slots of said opposite vertical side members of said U-shaped instrument rack, thereby permitting a handle portion of each of said plurality of surgical instruments to freely depend from said shaft portion;
- an operative assembly tray, said operative assembly tray including fastener means positioned for removable engagement with said upwardly projecting positioning studs of said enclosure base for removably attaching said operative assembly tray atop said enclosure base, said operative assembly tray including a plurality of apertures and upwardly projecting guide members for receiving disassembled parts of a plurality of surgical instruments, a corresponding location on said operative assembly tray at which each of the disassembled parts of said plurality of surgical instruments is received being identified by an outline of each of said disassembled parts, and said operative assembly tray including four upwardly projecting positioning studs generally aligned with said positioning studs of said enclosure base;
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- a cover for covering said enclosure base, said U-shaped instrument rack positioned within the enclosure base, and said operative assembly tray positioned atop the enclosure base, said cover including fastener means positioned for removable engagement with said upwardly projecting positioning studs of said operative assembly tray for removably attaching said cover atop said operative assembly tray, said cover including a plurality of downwardly projecting flexible strips for exerting pressure on the disassembled parts of said plurality of surgical instruments received on said operative assembly tray to thereby retain them in their corresponding locations on said operative assembly tray.