Packaging arrangement for contact lenses

A packaging arrangement for the sealed containment of at least one hydrophilic contact lens in a sterile aqueous solution;

• comprising:
• a) a plurality of injection molded or thermoformed plastic base members each having a cavity for containing contact lenses immersed in a solution, each base member including a flange extending outwardly about the periphery of the cavity, the flange having opposite side walls extending between wider and narrower flange ends, the cavity consisting of a generally curvilinear concave indentation in the base member proximate the wider end of the planar flange and having a shape in substantial conformance with the shape of a contact lens adapted to be contained therein;
• and
• b) a flexible cover sheet superimposed over the plurality of base members and dimensioned to be detachably sealed to a seal area on the surface of each flange, the cover sheet sealingly extending about each cavity and having unsealed edge portions providing gripping means engageable for enabling separating the cover sheet from each flange so as to expose each cavity and to facilitate external access to the contact lens in each cavity;
• wherein the plurality of base members are contiguously arranged and interconnected in an array such that the wider end of respectively one flange is alternatingly positioned adjacent a narrower end of a contiguously located adjacent flange of an adjoiningly located base member, the base members being interconnected by the flexible cover sheet for the containment of a specified number of contact lenses arranged in respectively each cavity of each base member.