EP0189276A2 - Emballage pour la distribution de médicaments - Google Patents

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EP0189276A2
EP0189276A2 EP86300273A EP86300273A EP0189276A2 EP 0189276 A2 EP0189276 A2 EP 0189276A2 EP 86300273 A EP86300273 A EP 86300273A EP 86300273 A EP86300273 A EP 86300273A EP 0189276 A2 EP0189276 A2 EP 0189276A2
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John Webster
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Manrex Ltd
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D75/00—Packages comprising articles or materials partially or wholly enclosed in strips, sheets, blanks, tubes, or webs of flexible sheet material, e.g. in folded wrappers
    • B65D75/28—Articles or materials wholly enclosed in composite wrappers, i.e. wrappers formed by associating or interconnecting two or more sheets or blanks
    • B65D75/30—Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding
    • B65D75/32—Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding one or both sheets or blanks being recessed to accommodate contents
    • B65D75/325—Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding one or both sheets or blanks being recessed to accommodate contents one sheet being recessed, and the other being a flat not- rigid sheet, e.g. puncturable or peelable foil
    • B65D75/327—Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding one or both sheets or blanks being recessed to accommodate contents one sheet being recessed, and the other being a flat not- rigid sheet, e.g. puncturable or peelable foil and forming several compartments
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2585/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D2585/56—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials for medicinal tablets or pills

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  • This invention relates to a package for dispensing medication.
  • the blister sheet is fully supported by a relatively rigid plastics cover sheet which is effectively a permanent structure and can be refilled with further blister packs.
  • the pockets of the blister pack are exposed through the openings of the cover sheet whereby the flexible blister sheet can be compressed and the dose of medication expelled through the frangible foil layer.
  • the invention provides a blister pack for dispensing doses of medication, the pack comprising a sheet of flexible plastics material deformed to one side of the sheet so as to define a plurality of pockets each for receiving a respective dose, each pocket being elongate along a first axis so as to define a pocket length which is longer on said first axis than along an axis at right angles thereto, the pockets being arranged in a plurality of columns with a plurality of pockets in each column, said first axis of the pockets of all the columns except one end column being arranged to lie substantially parallel and inclined to one side of the respective column and said first axis of the pockets of the end column being arranged to lie substantially parallel and in a direction clearly visibly different from the pockets of the other columns.
  • the one end column can have the pockets arranged inclined in the opposite direction to the other columns with both being inclined at approximately 45° to the column itself.
  • the above blister pack can of course be provided in combination with the medication itself and a backing sheet to form a replacable pack.
  • the so formed replacable pack provides a further aspect in combination with a pair of cover sheets which are relatively permanent.
  • the cover sheets themselves provide a yet further aspect including openings shaped to cooperate with the pockets.
  • a blister pack is indicated generally at 10 in Figure 1 comprising a sheet of flexible plastics material which is stamped to form a number of blisters or pockets 11.
  • Each pocket 11 is of slightly elongate shape that is with semi-circular ends and straight sides defining a generally oval shape which is suitable to receive either circular pills or elongate capsules of medication.
  • the cross-section of the pockets is generally shown in Figure 2 where it will be noted that the pockets are upstanding from one side of the base sheet and have a flat base and slightly inclined sides so that the pockets can be simply formed by a stamping process from the flat flexible sheet.
  • cut-outs 12 can be provided on a side edge and a bottom edge of the rectangular base sheet.
  • pockets are arranged in five columns of seven rows each to provide a total of 35 pockets.
  • the first four rows are as shown inclined so that the elongate axis of the pocket indicated relative to one pocket at 13 is inclined to the left relative to the direction of the respective column.
  • the angle of inclination of the pockets of the four columns is of the order of 45°.
  • the pockets of each column are inclined at the same angle as the top pocket illustrated respectively at 13, 14, 15 and 16.
  • the angle of inclination varies slightly so that in the example shown the first pocket indicated at 13 has an angle relative to the column of 42°, the second pocket has an angle indicated at 14 of 44°, the angle indicated at 15 is 45°and the angle indicated at 16 is 46°.
  • these angles are exemplary only and can be varied depending upon design parameters.
  • the right hand column is arranged with the pockets providing an angle of the axis indicated at 17 of the order of 45° but inclined to the right of the column.
  • the pockets of the right hand column are clearly visibly distinct from those of the remaining columns.
  • an outer cover of a relatively stiff plastics material is provided for receiving the blister pack of Figures 1 and 2.
  • the cover comprises two sheets 20 and 21 of the plastics material connected at a hinge line 23 provided by separate hinge portions 22.
  • a plurality of press fasteners are arranged around the periphery of the sheets 20 and 21 with one of the sheets, in this case the front sheet 21 having press studs 24 which are on the underside of the sheet as illustrated in Figure 3 and which cooperate with openings 25 in the sheet 20.
  • press fasteners in the bottom edge, two in the side edge and three at the upper edge so that when folded together the sheets can be press fastened together to assume the condition indicated in Figure 4.
  • Each of the sheets 20 and 21 is stamped to provide openings corresponding in shape and location to the blisters or pockets of the sheet of Figures 1 and 2 and arranged so that when folded into the condition of Figure 4 the openings overlie and also overlie the pockets.
  • the rear sheet 20 also includes in the upper edge a pair of openings 26 which have lead in slots 27 so that the sheet can be simply clamped onto a pair of parallel bars which can pass through the slot 27 by flexing of the plastics material surrounding the slot and then can retain the sheet in position on the bars for example hanging vertically downwardly therefrom.
  • the front sheet 21 has a pair of cut-outs 28 of sufficient size to clearly expose the slots 27 so that when folded the whole cover can be latched onto the bars as previously explained.
  • the front cover 21 includes a lower cut-out 29 which extends from the bottom edge upwardly to provide a rectangular opening through which a portion of the rear cover can be seen as illustrated in Figure 4.
  • the medication can be placed into the open pockets and then covered with a foil layer indicated at 30 in Figures 4 and 5 so as to encase the medication indicated at 31 within the pockets.
  • a blister pack including the foil layer, the medication and the blister sheet can be sold as a replacement item for use with the plastic cover which is of an effectively permanent construction.
  • the blister sheet and foil layer together with the medication can be assembled at a suitable manufacturer or distributor of the medication.
  • a pharmacist can purchase blister sheets and assemble these together with the medication and foil layer in a suitable simple machine of conventional type.
  • the blister pack incorporating the medication and foil layer is then assembled into the cover by placing the pockets or blisters through the front cover 21 and then closing the rear cover 20 to encase the rear surface. This condition is illustrated best in Figure 5. Medication can then be extracted from the pockets by depressing the blister sheet and expelling the medication through the foil layer to drop out rearwardly of the rear cover 20. It is arranged that the extraction of the medication starts at the top left hand pocket of the arrangement as illustrated in Figure 4 so that the first 28 medication doses can be expelled by applying the thumb of the user along the axis of the elongate pocket to depress the pocket and expel the medication.
  • the cut-out 29 and also a further rectangular cut-out 291 adjacent the top edge of the front cover 21 allows written information to be exposed for reading by the user giving relevant details relating to the medication.
  • Such written information can be carried on the front surface of the blister sheet as a printed label attached thereto by suitable adhesive.

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EP86300273A 1985-01-21 1986-01-16 Emballage pour la distribution de médicaments Withdrawn EP0189276A3 (fr)

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CA472485 1985-01-21
CA000472485A CA1239125A (fr) 1985-01-21 1985-01-21 Conditionnement de medicaments

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EP0189276A2 true EP0189276A2 (fr) 1986-07-30
EP0189276A3 EP0189276A3 (fr) 1988-03-23

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Cited By (3)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0725015A1 (fr) * 1995-02-04 1996-08-07 BIOMEDICA ARZNEIMITTEL GmbH & Co. KG Emballage pour comprimés contenus dans un blister
WO1997040876A2 (fr) * 1996-04-25 1997-11-06 Alfred Von Schuckmann Inhalateur
WO2011141688A1 (fr) 2010-05-11 2011-11-17 David John Fenn Paquet pour système de dosage surveillé

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CH498754A (de) * 1968-03-08 1970-11-15 Ortho Pharma Corp Tablettenpackung
FR2427273A1 (fr) * 1978-05-30 1979-12-28 Sterwin Ag Emballages pharmaceutiques et leur procede de fabrication
DE2840858A1 (de) * 1978-09-20 1980-04-03 Rainer Dr Med Liedtke Randgelochte arzneimitteldurchdrueckpackung
US4429792A (en) * 1981-09-11 1984-02-07 Medication Services, Inc. Medication-dispensing card
WO1985002828A1 (fr) * 1983-12-19 1985-07-04 Leonard Walter G Distributeur de pilules a disposition par quantiemes

Patent Citations (5)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CH498754A (de) * 1968-03-08 1970-11-15 Ortho Pharma Corp Tablettenpackung
FR2427273A1 (fr) * 1978-05-30 1979-12-28 Sterwin Ag Emballages pharmaceutiques et leur procede de fabrication
DE2840858A1 (de) * 1978-09-20 1980-04-03 Rainer Dr Med Liedtke Randgelochte arzneimitteldurchdrueckpackung
US4429792A (en) * 1981-09-11 1984-02-07 Medication Services, Inc. Medication-dispensing card
WO1985002828A1 (fr) * 1983-12-19 1985-07-04 Leonard Walter G Distributeur de pilules a disposition par quantiemes

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0725015A1 (fr) * 1995-02-04 1996-08-07 BIOMEDICA ARZNEIMITTEL GmbH & Co. KG Emballage pour comprimés contenus dans un blister
WO1997040876A2 (fr) * 1996-04-25 1997-11-06 Alfred Von Schuckmann Inhalateur
WO1997040876A3 (fr) * 1996-04-25 1998-01-15 Schuckmann Alfred Von Inhalateur
US6401712B1 (en) 1996-04-25 2002-06-11 Astrazeneca Ab Inhaler
WO2011141688A1 (fr) 2010-05-11 2011-11-17 David John Fenn Paquet pour système de dosage surveillé

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