Patent ID: 7066328

Claim:
A grooved angled tray for holding a plurality of ring-handled surgical instruments, each instrument having a ring handle and a lower portion, said tray comprising: a horizontal top having a front, a rear, and a pair of sides; a plurality of downwardly depending, elongate grooves in said horizontal top, said elongate grooves extending from the front to the rear of said top; a horizontal base parallel to said horizontal top, said horizontal base having a front edge, a rear edge and a pair of side edges; a vertical rear wall extending upwardly from said base rear edge to the rear of said horizontal top; first and second opposing sidewalls extending upwardly from the side edges of said base; and a front wall, said front wall including an inclined ramp and a bottom portion; said inclined ramp having an upper edge and a lower edge; said front wall bottom portion being inclined upwardly from the front edge of said base to said inclined ramp lower edge, and said inclined ramp being inclined upwardly from said lower edge to said upper edge; wherein said inclined ramp upper edge is located proximate to the front of said horizontal top and said horizontal top is disposed lower than the upper edge of said front wall inclined ramp.