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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2004
Kevin Corcoran, Corona, CA (US);
John Payne, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Kevin Corcoran, Corona, CA (US);
John Payne, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Ormco Corporation, Orange, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for organizing and loading orthodontic appliances, for example orthodontic brackets, onto set-up trays. The system includes an organizer tray which holds a set-up tray in a fixed orientation, and also holds a plurality of packages of orthodontic brackets in predetermined relationships to bracket staging areas on the set-up tray. Bracket packages and the organizer tray are configured so that the brackets are presented in the same orientation, when in their packages held by the organizer tray, as they will have when transferred to the set-up tray. As a result, the brackets can be loaded onto the set-up tray from the packages without re-orientation. The organizer tray has a storage base that holds supplies of packages of the different brackets of a given set so that the organizer tray can be reloaded with packages. Preferred organizer tray and package configurations are also provided.