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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1981
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1979
Harry T Treace, Forest Hill, TN (US);
Richards Manufacturing Company, Inc., Memphis, TN (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a container, package, or case and at the same time an article of surgical equipment for the storage, transportation, asepsis and surgical preparation of a medical device. The container is especially adapted for small, delicate, otic prostheses, the type used as a middle ear implant, such as a total or partial ossicular replacement prosthesis. The container comprises a base that constitutes a work area and has a first recessed area formed therein conforming to the shape and size of the prosthesis which it will carry. The end of this first recessed area opens laterally into a contiguous, coplanar second recessed area adapted in cooperation with the said work area to use in preparation of the prosthesis. Disposed on the base opposite the second recessed area and parallel to the longitudinal axis of the first recessed area are measuring apparatus having a scale set perpendicular to the said longitudinal axis. A raised cutting platform adapted to cutting cartilage, tissue or fascia, is disposed on the base so as to be enclosed within the case when the lid is closed. On the inside of the lid of the container, immediately opposite the prosthesis-holding recessed area of the base is a complementary recessed portion.