Kimberly-Clark Corporation

James M Weber

Robert J Brock

William Conn

Holly J Reisdorf

Disclosed herein is a surgical instrument transport tray for handling, moving, sterilizing and storing wrapped instrument sterilization pans. With the tray there is less risk of the wrapping being torn or otherwise breached after sterilization of the contents. Without the tray, the wrapping used to maintain the sterility of the contents is sometimes damaged, thereby necessitating the removal of the damaged wrap followed by rewrapping and re-sterilizing the pan and its contents. The risk of such damage, increased cost and lost time are reduced by way of the present invention.

Surgical instrument transport tray

A house wrap consists of a three-layer, semi-permeable, nonwoven laminate. The two exterior layers are spun-bond polypropylene having a melt flow of 35 grams per ten minutes at 230.degree. C. The interior layer is a two-component melt-blown layer of polyethylene and polypropylene. The polypropylene has a melt flow of 260 and the polyethylene has a melt flow of 350. The laminate is calendered after formation so that the polyethylene melts and flows to close up the interstitial space and to bond the layers together to create a strong semi-permeable laminate.

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Alpharetta, GA, United States of America

James M Weber