Patent ID: 7334679
Filing Date: 2008-02-26
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
1. A tear open package, for a hydrophilic catheter having an insertion end and a funnel end, comprising: a pair of thin elongated sheets of gas impermeable material joined about their edges by a perimeter heat seal, the elongated sheets of material defining an elongated cavity receiving a catheter therein, the catheter having the insertion end near one end of the cavity and the funnel end near the other end of the cavity; the perimeter heat seal including at least an insertion end heat seal portion at one end of the package, a funnel end heat seal portion at the other end of the package, and a pair of side heat seal portions along each side of the package each extending from the insertion end heat seal portion to the funnel end heat seal portion in spaced relation to one another; and a respective tear line in each of the elongated sheets of material extending in registration with one another from one side of the package toward the other between the insertion end of the catheter and the insertion end heat seal portion, the tear lines extending through at least one of the side heat seal portions for opening the package by controlled tearing along the tear lines, the tear lines in the elongated sheets of material being formed into a first insertion end tear line portion and a second insertion end tear line portion to define respective continuous chevron-shaped insertion end tear lines.