Patent ID: 8079468

Claim:
Surgical screw container, comprising: a receiving part having at least two screw receptacles for accommodating at least two bone screws, a closure part mounted on the receiving part so as to be movable, at least one storage device coupling member for the releasable connection of the surgical screw container to a surgical screw container storage device for at least one surgical screw container, and at least two elongated coupling projections projecting from the surgical screw container in opposite directions, said projections being designed to correspond to two elongated and oppositely disposed parallel grooves of at least one screw container receptacle of the surgical screw container storage device and said projections being insertable into the grooves of the at least one screw container receptacle for guidance of the surgical screw container into a storage position in which the at least one storage device coupling member engages with a corresponding coupling member of the surgical screw container storage device, wherein: the closure part is adapted to be brought into at least one closure position relative to the receiving part, none of the screw receptacles being accessible for insertion or removal of a bone screw in said closure position, and the closure part is adapted to be brought from the at least one closure position into at least two removal positions, only a single screw receptacle being accessible for the insertion or removal of a single bone screw in each of said removal positions.