Patent ID: 7441655

Claim:
A transfer tray for surgical sharps comprising: (a) two parallel and substantially vertical outside length walls of equal lengths connected at their ends by outside end walls to form a box structure; (b) substantial side access cutaways defined at mid-sections of the outside length walls substantially reducing the height of said outside length walls by one half or more; (c) a floor section at about an elevation of the lowest edges of the outside length walls and extending between the outside length walls only between the side access cutaways and having two side to side edges; (d) mid-section walls rising to a first height from each of the two side to side edges of the floor section to a first elevation; (e) handle surfaces that extend up from the first elevation to a second elevation below top edges of the outside end walls, whereby the handle surfaces are sloped downward from the second elevation toward the floor section; and (f) opposing suture needle walls extend down from lengthwise edges of the handle surfaces and dividing the mid-section walls to a needle floor portion and defining two suture needle spaces therebetween to thereby form a pair of co-axial and longitudinal concavities.