Sterile packaging

Details Sterile packaging Sterile packaging

1993-10-18

1995-02-21

Price, William I.

Special receptacle or package

For body treatment article or material

With gas permeable cover

2062131, 206587, 206815, B56D 8102, A61B 1902

Patent

active

053907922

ABSTRACT:
A packaging for the protective sterile containment of a rigid product and, more particularly, a sealed container protectively enclosing the sterile product, such as a liquid-filled vial, during shipment and handling of the packaging, and upon opening of the packaging in a sterile environment; for instance, a surgical operating room, facilitating the sterile transfer of the product from the packaging into the sterile environment. The packaging includes a substantially rigid, resiliently flexible thermoformed plastic container having a plurality of indentations or recessed wall portions molded or thermoformed into various of the side, end and bottom wall surfaces of the container, with such wall portions forming contacting surfaces shaped in correlation with the exterior surface portions of a product housed in the container so as to position the product therein in a specified orientation, and in which at least one of the indentations includes product-gripping structure protectively maintaining the product within the packaging container in its fixed position during shipping and handling of the container so as to be secure from potential damage due to impacts or shocks imparted to the packaging. The indentations are formed with venting ridges constituting tubular passages between the mutually contacting surfaces of the container and the product to enable an improved and substantially unhindered circulation of sterilizing gases throughout the interior of the packaging and about the product.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4466552 (1984-08-01), Butterworth et al.
patent: 4664256 (1987-05-01), Halskov
patent: 5052558 (1991-10-01), Carter
patent: 5217118 (1993-02-01), Mochizuki et al.
patent: 5246109 (1993-09-01), Markle et al.

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