EP0705092B1 - Dispostif de conditionnement et de distribution de medicaments - Google Patents

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EP0705092B1
EP0705092B1 EP94918914A EP94918914A EP0705092B1 EP 0705092 B1 EP0705092 B1 EP 0705092B1 EP 94918914 A EP94918914 A EP 94918914A EP 94918914 A EP94918914 A EP 94918914A EP 0705092 B1 EP0705092 B1 EP 0705092B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J7/00—Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoons; Pill counting devices; Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
    • A61J7/04—Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers
    • 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
    • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D83/04—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills
    • B65D83/0445—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills all the articles being stored in individual compartments

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  • the invention relates to the technical sector of containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes.
  • the compartments have internal partitions corresponding to the daily doses distributed most often between morning, noon, evening and bedtime.
  • each compartment may have a sliding mounted cover or the housing may have a cover covering all of the drugs. Access to each compartment is sometimes difficult and very often requires turning the case upside down with the risk of mixing the doses of medication.
  • patent GB 1,012,508 discloses a case receiving at least one compartmentalized case capable of projecting from one of the faces of the case. It appears that in the overflow position of the case in question, several compartments can be accessible. In practice, this can pose real problems.
  • the user wishes, for example, take the medication (s) placed in the second compartment, the first compartment also appears when the case overflows. It follows that by reversing the case to drop the medication contained in the second compartment, the medication contained in the first compartment, if the latter has not been taken for various reasons, will also fall. Under these conditions, the user will simultaneously take the drugs from the two compartments, which may be in total contradiction with the prescribed treatment.
  • the object of the invention is to remedy these drawbacks in a simple, safe, effective and rational manner.
  • the problem which the invention proposes to solve is to be able to package and distribute daily doses of drugs taking into account the fact that depending on the time of taking, the drug is of a different nature and therefore requires a volume of packaging. different. This is the case with supositoires and pills. Generally, it appears that the taking of supositoires is carried out in the morning and at bedtime.
  • Another important objective that the invention sets out to achieve is to not allow one of the faces of the case to overflow, only one of the compartments, in order to avoid any accidental taking of two different drugs, continued when the case is overturned.
  • each case in the form of a parallelepipedic element, is open at its upper part and has a transverse internal separation which is offset relative to the length of the case, to form two compartments of unequal lengths.
  • the box is constituted by a receptacle comprising a flat face receiving the cases and whose edges are raised to constitute the transverse sides, delimiting faces lateral open for overflowing the cases, a transparent plate being fixed on these transverse sides to close the receptacle.
  • the blocking arrangements in the overflow position either of the compartment or of the compartment, of one or the other of the open side faces are constituted by elastic tongues formed in the bottom of the case at each location of the cases, said tongues having at the end of the pins capable of cooperating with holes formed in the thickness of the bottom of each case.
  • Each location has two coaxial tabs, the tabs of two adjacent locations being offset to allow large and small compartments to overflow in an alternating manner.
  • the device comprises a housing (1) arranged internally for the positioning of several cases (2) intended to receive the drugs.
  • the housing consists of a receptacle (1b) comprising a flat face (1b1) on which are mounted, with sliding capacity guided in translation, the cases (2).
  • the edges (1b2) (1b3) of the receptacle are raised to form the transverse sides.
  • a transparent plate (3) is fixed on the receptacle (1b) in order to close the cases (2), as will be indicated in the following description.
  • the side faces (1c) and (1d) of the housing are therefore open to allow the cases to overflow under a digital thrust force applied to the latter.
  • the receptacle may have, parallel to its transverse edges (1b2) (1b3), spacers (1b4) and (1b5).
  • Each case (2) in the form of a parallelepiped element is open at its upper part and has a transverse internal separation (2a). This separation (2a) is offset from the length of the case, to form two internal compartments (2b) and (2c) of unequal lengths and therefore of different volumes.
  • the closure of the cases and consequently of the compartments (2b) and (2c) is carried out by the transparent plate (3).
  • the plate is fixed to the receptacle by any known and appropriate means, in particular by ultrasonic welding.
  • the housing (1) and the cases (2) have, in combination, arrangements capable of allowing the locking in the overflow position of said cases, relative to one or the other. open faces (1c) (1d), so as to have access only, either to the internal compartment of reduced dimension (2b), or to the internal compartment of larger dimension (2c).
  • the bottom of the housing constituted by the plate (1b) has, at each location of the cases, elastic tongues (1f) and (1g).
  • Each tongue has, at the end, a centering pin (1f1) and (1g1) capable of cooperating with holes (2d) formed in the thickness of the bottom of each case.
  • each location delimited by rectilinear bosses (1e), has two coaxial tabs.
  • the tabs of two adjacent locations are offset to allow the overflow of the large and small compartments (2b) and (2c) in an alternating manner.
  • the bottom of each case has three holes (2d) to cooperate with at least one of the tabs, regardless of the position of the case in the housing.
  • the two locking tabs (1f) and (1g) each cooperate with a hole (2d) in the corresponding case.
  • the positioning of the tabs is determined as a function of the internal compartments (2b) (2c) of each case, so that in the overflowing position of the cases, only the internal compartments (2b) and (2c) project from the housing relative to the plate (3), thus allowing access only to the desired compartment depending on the medication to be taken.
  • the box (1) has fourteen cases (2) corresponding to MORNING and AFTERNOON for each day of the week.
  • the cases (2) have, two by two, an inscription indicating the days of the week MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY.
  • one case (2) includes the morning and noon inscriptions, while the other case includes the evening and bedtime inscriptions.
  • the MORNING and SLEEP inscriptions are arranged in correspondence with the large compartments (2c). Given the design of the device, the various abovementioned inscriptions appear on the transparent closure plate (3).
  • the locking tabs in the overflow position of the cases (2) allow, if necessary, to completely remove the cases, by exerting on the latter, a greater pushing force.

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EP94918914A 1993-06-24 1994-06-13 Dispostif de conditionnement et de distribution de medicaments Expired - Lifetime EP0705092B1 (fr)

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FR9308089A FR2706871B1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) 1993-06-24 1993-06-24
FR9308089 1993-06-24
PCT/FR1994/000697 WO1995000102A1 (fr) 1993-06-24 1994-06-13 Dispostif de conditionnement et de distribution de medicaments

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FR (1) FR2706871B1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)
GR (1) GR3025149T3 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow)
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DE102018116804B4 (de) * 2018-07-11 2022-05-12 Schoendiener GmbH Manuell bedienbarer tablettenspender und halter, der zum haltern von zwei oder mehr tablettenspendern ausgelegt ist

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US4062445A (en) * 1976-09-14 1977-12-13 Kjell Moe Medicine dispensers
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WO1995000102A1 (fr) 1995-01-05
FR2706871A1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) 1994-12-30
GR3025149T3 (en) 1998-02-27
FR2706871B1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) 1995-08-25
ES2107837T3 (es) 1997-12-01
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