US Patent 7341150 Needle package and needle pouch, as well as packaging method

A needle pouch made of a flexible material, such as paper or plastic, for an orderly packaging of needle sets (6), formed of a strip-shaped portion from the desired material. One end of the strip is folded onto the shanks of the needles and is, at the edges, connected to a mid portion on which the needle set is positioned. The connection is effected between the folded-over pouch portion (15) and the mid portion (14) which are in a face-to-face relationship. The strip-shaped locations of connection bilaterally confine the needle set and thus tightly hold the needles against one another. The needle pouch (2) may be made automatically and in a simple manner and may be adapted in the simplest way to different needle sets.