Package with suture material for surgical purposes

Claim 1

Package with suture material for surgical purposes, in particular as an inner package for sterile packaging characterized by (a) a bottom plate with a rear carrier strip, the latter running in the rear zone parallel to the longitudinal edges of the bottom plate and being secured on said bottom plate, consisting of several partial sections and having guide cuts open to the top, and with several transverse carrier strips, the latter running in the front zone perpendicular to the longitudinal edges of the bottom plate being secured on said bottom plate and having guide cuts open to the top; (b) at least one intermediate sections which extends essentially in the zone between the front longitudinal edge of the rear carrier strip and the rear ends of the transverse carrier strips; (c) a plurality of needle/thread combinations, the needles of which are held in guide cuts of the transverse carrier strips and the thread-end zones of which are held in guide cuts of the rear carrier strip, the threads being divided into groups which are separated from one another by the intermediate sections; (d) a cover plate which is connected to the rear longitudinal edge of the bottom plate and can be turned onto the bottom plate, covering in its areal extension said bottom plate roughly as far as the rear ends of the transverse carrier strips; and (e) a closure plate which is connected to the front longitudinal edge of the bottom plate and is so dimensioned in its areal extension that, after being turned down onto said bottom plate, it covers the front zone of the bottom plate not covered by the cover plate.