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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 1986
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1985
John D Eldridge, Jr, Newport Beach, CA (US);
American Hospital Supply Corp., Evanston, IL (US);
Abstract
A disposable collector for surgical implements which utilizes a pair of sponge plastic pads movable between a coplanar position to receive surgical implements, such as semicircular-shaped surgical needles and a folded position with their peripheral or frame portions in mutual contact to form an enclosure having depressed areas defining rows and columns of implement receiving elements, bordered by areas of depressions. In one embodiment the implement receiving elements are completely surrounded by depressed portions; in another embodiment a pair of crescent-shaped depressed portions extend in opposite directions from the implement receiving elements.