EP0734958B1 - Verpackung für Kontaktlinsen - Google Patents

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EP0734958B1
EP0734958B1 EP96302232A EP96302232A EP0734958B1 EP 0734958 B1 EP0734958 B1 EP 0734958B1 EP 96302232 A EP96302232 A EP 96302232A EP 96302232 A EP96302232 A EP 96302232A EP 0734958 B1 EP0734958 B1 EP 0734958B1
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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
    • B65D75/52—Details
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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
    • B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
    • B65D5/42—Details of containers or of foldable or erectable container blanks
    • B65D5/44—Integral, inserted or attached portions forming internal or external fittings
    • B65D5/48—Partitions
    • B65D5/48024—Partitions inserted
    • B65D5/48048—Single partition formed by folding one or more blanks and provided with flaps fixed to or maintained by parts of the container body
    • 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
    • B65D2575/00—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
    • B65D2575/28—Articles or materials wholly enclosed in composite wrappers, i.e. wrappers formed by association or interconnecting two or more sheets or blanks
    • B65D2575/30—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
    • B65D2575/32—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
    • B65D2575/3209—Details
    • B65D2575/3218—Details with special means for gaining access to the contents
    • B65D2575/3227—Cuts or weakening lines
    • 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
    • B65D2585/54—Containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles of special shape not otherwise provided for
    • B65D2585/545—Contact lenses

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  • the present invention relates to a packaging arrangement for the containment of at least one hydrophilic contact lens in a sterile aqueous solution. More specifically, the invention pertains to a so-called trial-sized packaging arrangement wherein a plurality of disposable hydrophilic contact lenses are contained in a specific limited number of individual packaging arrangements collectively housed in a box-like container or carton so as to provide a specified or essentially measured sample or trial supply of contact lenses for use by a consumer over a predetermined relatively short period of time enabling the sampling and evaluation of the product packaged therein.
  • the box-like container or carton is designed to accommodate a smaller quantity of contact lenses while being designed and dimensioned for the receipt and storage of normally considerably larger quantities of contact lenses without the need for having to modify the external size and dimensions of the container, carton or packaging equipment.
  • this will enable the thusly designed carton to be employed for the containment and packaging of such smaller quantities of contact lenses as to be adapted for the dispensing or distribution of so-called sample or "trial" sizes; in effect, the dispensing of free packages containing limited numbers of contact lenses to potential or prospective consumers.
  • hydrophilic contact lenses in a sterile aqueous solution
  • packaging arrangements generally consist of so-called blister packages which are employed for the storage and dispensing of the hydrophilic contact lenses by a medical practitioner or to consumer who intends to wear the contact lenses.
  • hydrophilic contact lenses which may be disposable after a single wear or short-term use, are manufactured from suitable hydrophilic polymeric materials. These materials may be, amongst others, copolymers of hydroxyethyl methacrylate containing from about 20% to 90% or more of water, depending upon the polymer composition.
  • such contact lenses must be stored in a sterile aqueous solution, usually in an isotonic saline solution in order to prevent dehydration and to maintain the lenses in a ready-to-wear condition.
  • contact lens manufacturers ordinarily utilized stoppered glass bottles containing sterile saline solutions in which the hydrophilic contact lenses were immersed as storage and shipping containers for individual contact lenses.
  • Each bottle was sealed with a suitable silicone stopper and provided with a metal closure as a safety seal in the configuration of an overcap.
  • the metal closure safety seal was required to be initially torn off the bottle, thereafter the stopper withdrawn and the contact lens lifted out from the bottle through the intermediary of a suitable plastic tweezer or by pouring the contents out.
  • This entailed the implementation of an extremely complicated procedure, since the contact lens was difficult to grasp and remove from the saline solution contained in the bottle due to the transparent nature of the contact lens which rendered it practically invisible to the human eye.
  • containments in the form of blister packages have been developed for hydrophilic contact lenses, and which enable the storage and shipping of the hydrophilic contact lenses in a simple and inexpensive expedient manner, such as by being arranged within a secondary packing preferably constituted from a paperboard carton or the like, while concurrently facilitating the conveniently easy removal of the contact lens by a practitioner or a patient.
  • a blister package which is adapted to provide a sterile sealed storage environment for a disposable or single-use hydrophilic contact lens, wherein the lens is immersed in a sterile aqueous solution; for example, such as in an isotonic saline solution, is described in U.S. Patent No. 4,691,820 to Martinez; which is assigned to the common assignee for the present invention.
  • the blister package for storing and dispensing a hydrophilic contact lens includes an injection-molded or thermoformed plastic base portion incorporating a molded cavity which is surrounded by an outstanding planar flange about the rim of the cavity.
  • a flexible cover sheet is adhered to the surface of the flange so as to sealingly enclose the cavity in a generally liquid-tight mode.
  • a hydrophilic contact lens is immersed in a sterile aqueous solution, such as an isotonic saline solution.
  • a portion of the side wall of the cavity is inclined to form a ramp extending upwardly towards the flange from the bottom of the cavity, and the cover sheet is adapted to be stripped from the flange in order to expose the cavity and inclined side wall whereupon the lens may be readily manually removed by being slid upwardly and out of the cavity along-the inclined ramp surface of the cavity.
  • blister packages are obtained by modifying the shape of the base member or base portion whereby rather than having a rectangular cavity which has an inclined bottom ramp portion, there is provided a semi-circular cavity which more closely conforms to the contact lens arranged therein immersed in an aqueous sterile solution.
  • blister packages of that type are disclosed in EP-A-0 650 676 wherein the base portions are interconnected in an array and covered by a single flexible cover sheet having lines of weakening provided therebetween to enable selective separation and removal of individual blister packages, each respectively containing one contact lens.
  • Such an improved and more recent blister package construction resides in that the cavity for the containment of the contact lens is essentially of a semi-spherical configuration dimensioned so as to be adapted to closely support the contact lens therein immersed in an aqueous solution for ease of removal and also to facilitate an inspection process.
  • the foregoing construction primarily considers the utilization of such blister packages for the dispensing of individual contact lenses, with such blister packages being ordinarily separate or single packagings, which may then be housed in larger quantities in a further container, such as a rigid cardboard or paperboard carton or other suitable rigidly constructed container employed for the retail sales of the lenses.
  • arrays of the blister packages are stored and packaged in secondary packagings normally consisting of rectangular carton structures, which may also be encompassed by a plastic shrinking film, so as to be sold in predetermined large quantities suitable for various types of retail operations and/or dispensing in conformance with specific user requirements.
  • An important aspect is to be able to furnish a user of such disposable hydrophilic contact lenses with a specific supply of contact lenses, the latter of which are each normally worn for only a single day; in essence, for ordinarily 8 to 18 hours within a 24-hour period and thereafter discarded.
  • the packaging of a supply of contact lenses should enable the user to store and provide indication for replenishing the supply of contact lenses at regular intervals; for example, at periods of 30 days, or possible shorter and preferably lengthier periods of time, such as weeks and even over periods of months; for instance, 60 or 90 days (3-month supply).
  • the present invention contemplates the provision of packaging arrangements for specified limited quantities of such hydrophilic contact lenses, wherein these packaging arrangements are boxed in a carton enabling a rapid and precise determination as to the quantity of hydrophilic contact lenses contained therein, and with such packaging arrangements being of a compact nature which is completely protective of the hydrophilic lenses.
  • the product be packaged in a secondary containment, such as a carton or rigid container in which the latter contains limited numbers and quantities of blister packages or arrays of blister packages containing contact lenses so as to enable a potential consumer to utilize these for a limited or introductory trial period to ascertain whether the contact lenses are really comfortable and satisfactory and meet the consumer's expectations, thereby forming an inducement for the purchase of larger quantities for lengthier periods of time.
  • a secondary containment such as a carton or rigid container in which the latter contains limited numbers and quantities of blister packages or arrays of blister packages containing contact lenses so as to enable a potential consumer to utilize these for a limited or introductory trial period to ascertain whether the contact lenses are really comfortable and satisfactory and meet the consumer's expectations, thereby forming an inducement for the purchase of larger quantities for lengthier periods of time.
  • the currently utilized secondary packages or cartons each may contain 30 blister packages, or essentially a month's supply for one eye, each containing a contact lens and with arrays of each five blister packages being superimposed and interleaved with each other to form a plurality of layers within the carton in a substantially protected state, as disclosed in EP-A-0 650 676.
  • This spacer or partition structure will provide for a suitable contact lens array supporting feature internally in the upper region of the carton, while concurrently enabling maintaining the exterior dimensions of the carton as would be normally employed for the larger quantity of contact lenses without having to modify the external carton configurations to any extent, and thus facilitating utilizing the same and essentially unaltered basic packaging or secondary packaging equipment or machinery for identical or similarly dimensioned cartons containing larger quantities or arrays of blister packages.
  • a generally rectangular carton 10 which is adapted to receive a plurality of planar arrays of packaging arrangements for the sealed containment of contact lenses, especially disposable hydrophilic contact lenses, as elucidated in more specific detail hereinbelow; and as is also described in EP-A-0 650 676.
  • the rectangular carton 10 which is preferably formed from a blank constituted of paperboard, although numerous other materials may be employed such as pressed cardboard, plastic and the like, includes flat top and bottom wall panels 12 and 14, and front and rear walls or panels 16 and, respectively, 18 which are adapted to be closed by being folded from a carton blank along suitable fold lines, and opposite ends 20; (only one shown) through an adhesive or glued construction as is known in the carton forming technology.
  • the top wall panel 12 is adapted to be swung upwardly about a rear hinge line, as shown by the phantom illustration, to open the carton 10, and includes side flaps 12a, 12b which may be tucked within the confines of the carton beneath the end walls 20.
  • the front wall panel 16 includes a lower portion 16a which is adapted to be glued to the end walls 20 by means of end flaps (not shown).
  • the upper wall panel 12 includes a downwardly depending front flap 22 having a centrally located latching tab 24 at a lower edge thereof which is adapted to be tucked into a cooperating latching slit centrally formed in the lower front wall panel 16 to facilitate reclosing of the carton, as shown in Fig. 2.
  • the back hinge of the top wall-panel 12 is adapted to be attached to the carton by means of perforations. This provides a practitioner with the option of easily removing the top wall panel of the carton by tearing along the rear hinge line, and thereafter using the carton as a dispensing tray.
  • the carton 10 may be equipped with a decorative glossy or semi-glossy exterior surface, which may be imparted with suitable single or multi-colored imprinting and/or embossing representative of the product contained therein, identifying legends and logos pertaining to the company manufacturing and/or marketing the product, instructions pertaining to the use of the product packaged in the carton, and other suitable legends, decorative indicia and the like.
  • the blister packages may also be stored in a plastic container of more durable construction, having a lid or cover which is openable or closeable by means of a so-called living hinge structure.
  • each array essentially consists of five blister packages, each respectively containing one hydrophilic contact lens immersed in aqueous sterile solution.
  • each array of blister packages comprises five such packages interconnected by a single flexible cover sheet, as is described in detail in EP-A-0 650 676.
  • Fig. 3 illustrates the array of packaging arrangements 30 as consisting of a plurality of interconnected blister packages 32, wherein each blister package 32 includes a base member 34 consisting of a planar essentially rectangularly-shaped flange 36 having an integral depending wall portion 38 at one edge thereof. Offset towards an edge of the flange 36 a cavity 40 is formed therein which is of an essentially semi-spherical configuration, generally in conformance with the curvilinear shape of a contact lens (not shown), adapted to be stored therein in a sealed condition while immersed in a suitable sterile aqueous solution.
  • other cavity configurations also readily lend themselves to the invention, such as semi-spherical, oval, or the like.
  • the height of the wall portion 38 depending from the planar flange 36 is somewhat analogous to the height or depth of the cavity 40 containing the contact lens.
  • the edge of the flange 36 opposite that possessing the depending wall portion is also provided with depending protuberances 43 which will also aid in positioning the blister packages in the carton, as described in detail hereinbelow.
  • the base member 34 of each so-called blister package is preferably constituted from an injection-molded or thermoformed plastic sheet material; for instance, such as polypropylene.
  • a continuous flexible cover sheet 44 Positioned to extend over the base members 34 of the plurality of blister packages, in this case forming an array of five, is a continuous flexible cover sheet 44, having a series of parallel spaced weakening lines 46, such as perforations, discontinuous slits or the like, provided between each of the adjacently located base members 34, to enable suitable detachment from the array of individual or single blister packages each containing a single contact lens in accordance with the need of a user.
  • the flexible cover sheet 44 is adhesively fastened to suitable regions of the surface of the flanges 36 facing the cover sheet, such as by heat sealing, ultrasonic sealing, adhesives or other acceptable methods, so as to at least encompass each cavity 40 containing a contact lens immersed in the sterile aqueous solution, and to provide a sealing containment for each contact lens in its respective cavity.
  • Other sealing locations may also be provided at locations as desired between the surface of the flexible cover sheet 44 facing the surface of the flange 36 so as to provide adequate regions of adherence therewith, while permitting various edge portions between these components 36, 44 to remain unattached to facilitate a finger-gripping engagement for separating the severed cover sheet portion from the detached base member 34 in order to gain access to the contact lens which is contained in the applicable cavity 40 thereof.
  • the flexible cover sheet 44 is preferably constituted of a laminated foil, or other suitable material structure possessing a plastic film, such as for instance a polypropylene film, or possibly a PET film, on at least one external surface thereof adapted to contact the facing surface of the flange 36 so as to enable adhesive or heat-sealing therewith, as mentioned hereinabove; and which may incorporate a silicon dioxide layer as a barrier material.
  • the laminated foil constituting the flexible cover sheet 32 may be of a multi-layered construction having suitable double-sided imprinting provided thereon, for example, as disclosed in EP-0 646 471.
  • the flexible cover sheet acts as a barrier, and the laminate structure thereof could incorporate foil material (Al), SiO 2 or other barrier material.
  • the carton may also be encompassed by a plastic shrinkwrap film material.
  • an interior partition and spacer member 50 oriented coplanarly with and intermediate the carton top and bottom walls extends centrally across the carton confines.
  • the partition 50 which may be a flat paperboard or other rigid element, has a depending flange 52 at one edge proximate the inside of the carton wall 22, and another depending flange 54 at the other edge extending within the carton wall, thereby separating the interior of the carton 10 into an upper compartment 60 and a lower compartment 62, and in effect forming a bottom for the upper compartment 60 or a so-called "false bottom” for the carton 10.
  • the upper compartment 60 of the carton is adapted to respectively receive two arrays 30 of contact lens blister packages, each such array comprising five (5) packages, as shown in detail in Fig. 3, and wherein the partition member 50 provides a bottom support surface for the arrays protectively housed within the carton structure, whereas the lower compartment 62 remains empty.
  • the upper array 30 of contact lenses is exposed, enabling a consumer or user to separate an individual contact lens for use thereof by separating along the weakening lines or perforations formed in the cover sheet of the array.
  • the blister packages are unconnected or loosely arranged on the partition member 50 in upper compartment 60, and may be readily lifted out individually from the opened carton 10, as required.
  • FIG. 4 there is shown an alternate type of blister package 70 having a planar flange 72 of narrowing dimensions, whereby a lens-receiving cavity 74 is formed in the flange proximate a wider end 76 thereof.
  • the contact lens (not shown) housed in the cavity may be sealed therein through the superposition of a flexible sealing cover element, as described hereinbefore.
  • numerous types and shapes of blister packages may be housed in the upper compartment in either separably interconnected or loosely arranged arrays, as described in the previously referenced copending applications.
  • the foregoing thus provides a simple carton modification without having to change or reduce the exterior dimensions of the carton to accommodate a lesser quantity of arrays, by simply introducing the interior partition 50 dividing the carton into two separate compartments 60, 62, with the upper compartment 60 containing respectively one or two arrays of blister packages, and thus eliminates the necessity of having to provide new secondary or carton packaging equipment while only requiring a minor procedure for the insertion of the central partition member or so-called "false bottom" 50.
  • the present invention provides for a simple packaging of predetermined lesser or sample quantities of blister packages provided in packaging arrangements and units adapted to be compactly stored within a carton which not only provides for a novel packaging but for added support and protection for each of the blister packages and the contact lenses contained in the cavities thereof, while eliminating the need for changing the basic dimensions of the carton, or having to modify the packaging machines.

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  1. Verbund-Verpackung, welche aus einem allgemein starren Behälter (10) besteht, der eine Anordnung von Verpackungseinrichtungen (30) enthält, welche hydrophile Kontaktlinsen in einer sterilen wäßrigen Lösung umschließen, wobei die mindestens eine Anordnung von Verpackungseinrichtungen eine Vielzahl spritzgepreßter oder thermisch geformter Kunststoff-Grundkörper (34) umfaßt, deren jeder eine Vertiefung (40) zur Aufnahme einer Kontaktlinse, eingetaucht in der Lösung, aufweist, jeder Grundkörper (34) einen Flansch (36) aufweist, der sich über den Außenumfang der Vertiefung (40) nach außen erstreckt, jede Vertiefung (40) aus einer konkaven Einprägung im Grundkörper (34) besteht und eine Form hat, welche die Positionierung der darin aufzunehmenden Kontaktlinse erleichtert; eine flexible Deckelfolie (44) auf jeden aus der Vielzahl der Grundkörper (34) aufgebracht und derart bemessen ist, daß sie mit der Oberfläche eines jeden der Flansche (36) dicht verbunden, jedoch abnehmbar ist, wobei sie sich auch abdichtend über jede Vertiefung (40) erstreckt und Randbereiche nicht dicht verbunden sind, um eine Griffeinrichtung zum Trennen der Deckelfolie (44) vom Flansch (36) zu schaffen, um auf diese Weise die Vertiefung (40) freizulegen und einen Zugang von außen zur Kontaktlinse zu ermöglichen, gekennzeichnet durch eine Trennwand (50) in dem Behälter zur Bildunge erster und zweiter Fächer (60, 62), wobei mindestens eine Anordnung von einem solchen Fach umschlossen und gehalten wird, die Trennwände (50) aus einem ebenen Trennelement bestehen, das sich quer durch den Innenraum des Kartons (10) erstreckt, um auf diese Weise ein oberes Fach (60) und ein unteres Fach (62) zu schaffen, wobei mindestens eine Anordnung von Verpackungseinrichtungen (36) im oberen Fach (60) untergebracht ist und das Trennelement (50) die Boden-Auflagefläche für die mindestens eine Anordnung bildet.
  2. Verbund-Verpackung nach Anspruch 1, bei welcher das Trennelement (50) einen herabreichenden Wandbereich (52), der sich an einer Kante desselben erstreckt aufweist, sowie einen weiteren Wandbereich (54), der sich entlang der gegenüberliegenden Kante desselben erstreckt, wobei die herabreichenden Wandbereiche (52, 54) eine Bodenfläche (14) des Behälters berühren und eine solche Höhe haben, daß die Anordnung im oberen Fach (60) eng umschlossen ist.
  3. Verbund-Verpackung nach Anspruch 2, bei welcher die herabreichenden Wandbereiche (52, 54) des Trennelementes (50) engen Kontakt mit den Innenflächen der einander gegenüber liegenden Seitenwänden des Behälters haben.
  4. Verbund-Verpackung nach einem der bisherigen Ansprüche, bei welcher das Trennelement (50) aus einem allgemein starren Material besteht.
  5. Verbund-Verpackung nach einem der bisherigen Ansprüche, bei welcher das Trennelement (50) Umfangs-Abmessungen hat, welche mit den horizontalen Innenabmessungen des Behälters zusammenpassen.
  6. Verbund-Verpackung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 5, bei welcher der Behälter eine vordere und eine hintere Wandplatte (16, 18), eine obere und eine untere Wandplatte (12, 14), die mit der vorderen und hinteren Wandplatte (16, 18) verbunden sind sowie End-Wandplatten (20) und eine Klappenanordnung aufweist, die untereinander bzw. mit der vorderen, hinteren, oberen und unteren Wandplatte (16, 18, 12, 14) verbunden sind, um einen geschlossenen Karton zu bilden, wobei die vordere Wandplatte (16) und die obere Wandplatte (12) öffenbare Klappenbereiche (22, 24) aufweisen, um das Öffnen des Kartons (10) zu ermöglichen und jene gegenseitig steckbar sind, um den Karton durch Stecken wieder zu verschließen.
  7. Verbund-Verpackung nach Anspruch 6, bei welcher die obere Wandplatte (12) entlang einer perforierten Scharnierlinie abnehmbar an der hinteren Wandplatte (18) angebracht ist, um sie abzunehmen und den Karton (10) als offenes Tablett zur Abgabe von Verpakkungseinrichtungen daraus zu verwenden.
  8. Verbund-Verpackung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, bei welcher der Behälter allgemein eine rechteckige Form hat.
  9. Verbund-Verpackung nach einem der bisherigen Ansprüche, bei welcher der vertikale Abstand zwischen der Oberseite des Trennelementes (50) und der Innenfläche der oberen Wandplatte (12) des Faches allgemein der Gesamthöhe der mindestens einen Anordnung entspricht.
  10. Verbund-Verpackung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 9, bei welcher der Behälter aus einem starren Material besteht.
  11. Verbund-Verpackung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 10, bei welcher der Behälter von einer Kunststoff-Schrumpffolie umschlossen ist.
  12. Verbund-Verpackung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 11, bei welcher auf mindestens einer der Außenflächen des Behälters Angaben zur Zweckbestimmung sowie zum Inhalt aufgedruckt sind.
  13. Verbund-Verpackung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 13, bei welcher ein Paar der Anordnungen von Verpackungseinrichtungen im Fach (60) übereinander positioniert ist.
  14. Verbund-Verpackung nach Anspruch 13, bei welcher die Anordnungen umgekehrt zueinander und ineinander verschachtelt angeordnet sind.
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