Patent ID: 8485357

Claim:
A tray for positioning elongated objects, each comprising a body and a flange, the tray including a plate with spaced apart openings intended to receive the bodies of the elongated objects and bearing surfaces near said openings to receive the flanges of the elongated objects when the bodies of the elongated objects are engaged in said openings; wherein the tray includes at least one first bearing surface near a first opening, located at a first distance from the plate of the tray, and at least one second bearing surface near a second opening adjacent said first opening, located at a second distance from the plate of the tray, said second distance being different from said first distance; and a difference between said first and second distances is such that the flange of an elongated object engaged in one of these openings is able to rotate in this opening without contact with the flange of an elongated object when engaged in the other of these openings.