Patent ID: 6991108

Claim:
A device for storing surgical instruments and/or implants, comprising: A) upper and lower shell-shaped instrument trays ( 4 ), each instrument tray comprising a base ( 9 ), an upper side ( 6 ), an underside ( 7 ), and lateral walls ( 16 ), wherein said upper side is essentially parallel to a horizontal outline of the base ( 9 ), said lateral walls ( 16 ) extending generally perpendicularly relative to the base ( 9 ), and wherein said upper instrument tray is adapted to be stacked on said lower instrument tray; and B) a lid ( 1 ) comprising a cover plate ( 17 ) having a horizontal outline identical to the base horizontal outline, an upper side ( 14 ), an underside ( 13 ), and at least one displaceable locking mechanism ( 3 ), said locking mechanism detachably fastening the lid ( 1 ) on the upper side ( 6 ) of one of said upper and lower instrument trays; C) each of said instrument trays comprises locking means ( 10 ) that is operable to detachably fasten each of said instrument trays to an immediately subjacent instrument tray; wherein: D) the locking means ( 10 ) comprise upper locking elements ( 11 ) facing the upper side ( 6 ) of the associated instrument tray and lower locking elements ( 12 ) facing the underside ( 7 ) of the associated instrument tray; E) the locking mechanism ( 3 ) also comprises lower locking elements ( 12 ) facing the lid underside ( 13 ); and wherein F) the lower locking elements ( 12 ) can be detachably engaged with the upper locking elements ( 11 ) of the immediately subjacent instrument tray and the locking elements ( 11 , 12 ) are synchronously displaced by displacing the at least one locking mechanism ( 3 ) on the lid ( 1 ).