Patent ID: 7556424

Claim:
A thermometer probe cover system comprising first and second probe cover cassettes, each of said first and second cassettes comprising a frame and plurality of probe covers releasably attached to the frame, and a holder, at least one of the plurality of robe covers on the first cassette being nested with a probe cover of the second cassette, the holder comprising a base for supporting the first and second cassettes and a housing, the housing defining an opening for loading cassettes in the holder and removing cassettes from the holder, a first portion of the housing being configured to extend away from the base to at least to about the top of the first cassette to partially enclose the first and second cassettes in the housing, a second portion of the housing being configured to define a cutaway in the housing, said cutaway extending from said first portion of the housing to at least the top of the second cassette to facilitate manual grasping of the first and/or second cassettes.