Package for dental root canal and the like instruments

Claim 1

A package holding in spaced-apart relationship from one another dental instruments of the type having a narrow elongate shank extending axially from an elongate handle, comprising; a base plate comprised of a main part, a marginal edge part adjacent thereto, and a plurality of protuberances integral with said main part and said marginal edge part of the base plate and being spaced apart along the general direction of said edge part, said protuberances being formed by generally parallel protruding bridges each including respective narrow end portions attached to said main part and said marginal edge part, and a widened central part having edges folded down toward said base plate to form resilient side walls, adjacent pairs of said protuberances disposed with their respective resilient side walls facing one another to define means for gripping the handle of an instrument disposed transverse to said edge part with an end part of the instrument handle opposite the shank protruding from the base plate beyond said edge part, and a cover movable from a position mounted on the base plate covering the shanks and enclosing the handles of the instruments held on the base plate to a position uncovering the instruments and allowing access to said protruding ends of the handles.