The present invention provides a suture package and packaging method which ensures rapid access to sutures, one at a time, from a suture package which is easy to handle and store. Each suture is readily located in an advantageous position in the package, to be grasped by a needle holder, without the possibility of pulling unwanted sutures from the package, or the need to fumble through a bunch of needles to ensure that a single suture is obtained. This is done by providing a suture package, comp...

An organizer jewelry tray for an organized containment of earrings for pierced ears. The tray surface defines an organizer section having a recess with a pair of projecting pins or posts for receiving the clasp portion of the pin. An adjacent land defines apertures for receiving the post portion of the decorative body of the earring. The edge of the tray is configured having a lip so a plurality of trays may be vertically stacked. The tray may be variously configured, for example, having a squar...

The invention reveals a chemiluminescent lighting element which consists of two concentric, long tubes each of which is made of a translucent and preferably flexible, synthetic material, one of which contains a first chemical liquid which emits chemiluminescent light, and the other of which contains a second chemical liquid whose function is to cause the light activation of the first liquid. The internal tube is provided with an element which moves essentially along the entire length of said tub...

A suture package (30) including a panel having a series of superimposed subpanels (32a). A suture (20) loops back and forth on the subpanels (32a) such that adjacent loops are retained on adjacent subpanels (32a) and the adjacent subpanels separate the adjacent loops from one another. In the preferred embodiment, an accordion style panel (32) is utilized and the series of subpanels (32a) are folded into a superimposed relationship. Various features are incorporated to reduce the instances or lik...

In one embodiment, the stemware holder includes two, thin, elongated, semi-concave fingers, integral at their aft regions, that define a dome rising from a tray surface. The top of the dome is truncated and is open. The inboard edges of the fingers define a fore entry slot, a converging throat, a circular, central section at the truncated top of the dome, and a stress relief slot section extending aft from the circular section. The stemware holder is attached to the tray surface at the aft regio...

An inkable sheet comprises a base sheet, such as a PET film, having on a surface thereof an ink-absorbent resin layer comprising a vinyl pyrrolidone polymer and an acrylic or methacrylic polymer.

A suture retainer is provided with an arrangement of suture-retaining tabs of complex configuration and needle-retaining tabs of a number and distribution which enable the retainer to accommodate any one of several types of combined surgical suture-needle devices.

A jewelry case includes a bottom wall; a top wall; a side wall having one edge hinged to a first edge of the top wall and an opposite edge hinged to a first edge of the bottom wall such that the top wall can be positioned in parallel spaced relation above the bottom wall; an arrangement of first ring fingers extending downwardly from the top wall and being arranged in a plurality of rows, with a spacing between the first ring fingers in each row being at least equal to a width of one the first r...

A carded package including a base portion to which a heat shrinkable tube is adhesively affixed. The article is disposed within the tube and held on to the card by said tube. In one embodiment of the carded package, a pair of projections extend from the base portion of the card. Each projection holds a portion of the heat shrinkable tube to the base portion of the card to enhance the securement of the tube to the card. In another embodiment of the carded package, a projection is spaced from the ...

A screen display device (1) with a plurality of display elements (2), the display elements (2) comprising: (a) at least one display chamber (5) for containing display fluid; (b) at least storage chamber (6) in fluid communication with the display chamber (5); (c) the fluid being movable between the display chamber (5) and the storage chamber (6); (d) control means (7) for controlling fluid movement between the display chamber (5) and the storage chamber (6); and (d) a display screen (3); wherein...