EP1211191A1 - Blisterverpackung - Google Patents

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EP1211191A1
EP1211191A1 EP01204670A EP01204670A EP1211191A1 EP 1211191 A1 EP1211191 A1 EP 1211191A1 EP 01204670 A EP01204670 A EP 01204670A EP 01204670 A EP01204670 A EP 01204670A EP 1211191 A1 EP1211191 A1 EP 1211191A1
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blister pack
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Frans Van Den Heuvel
Henricus R.R. Feller
Batholomeus A.P. Cramers
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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
    • B65D75/54—Cards, coupons, or other inserts or accessories
    • 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
    • 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
    • B65D75/527—Tear-lines for separating a package into individual packages
    • 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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  • the present invention relates to a blister pack according to the preamble of claim 1, in which blister pack a plurality of doses of a medicament are packaged.
  • the blister pack has a base element in the form of an elongate strip, which base element is provided in the longitudinal direction with a series of recesses which project on the front side of the base element.
  • the base element is often made from a suitable plastics material, for example PVC, the recesses being obtained, for example, by injection-moulding or, as is often the case, by a thermoforming process, for example vacuum forming.
  • the base element may be transparent.
  • the base element is made from aluminium or some other foil material, if appropriate a multilayer material.
  • a dose of the medicament in question is accommodated in each recess of the blister pack, generally in the form of a pill or capsule.
  • the known blister pack also comprises a cover sheet which is arranged over the rear side of the base element and covers the recesses, so that each dose of the medicament is enclosed in its recess.
  • the cover sheet is often made from aluminium foil, but may also be made from any other suitable material.
  • the cover sheet may also have a multilayer structure.
  • the adhesion of the cover sheet to the base element can be obtained in various ways, for example by means of an adhesive bond or a fusion weld.
  • the base element and generally also the cover sheet, is provided with transversely oriented perforations which make it easy to divide the blister pack into discrete sections, which each include one recess in which one dose of the medicine is accommodated.
  • the said label sheet In a hospital, an accurate record of the medicaments administered must be kept for each patient.
  • a label sheet To limit administrative work, it is known for a label sheet to be arranged against the rear side of the cover sheet of the blister pack.
  • the said label sheet comprises a single-layer substrate which is self-adhesive on one side, with the exception of a narrow edge strip on opposite edges of the label sheet.
  • the label sheet is stuck to the rear side of the cover sheet of the blister pack by means of the said self-adhesive side.
  • the label sheet is provided with perforations which coincide with the perforations in the base element and the cover sheet of the blister pack, so that when a discrete section is removed from the blister pack, a section of the label sheet - a separate label - remains stuck to the section of the base element and cover sheet of the blister pack which has been removed.
  • the label extends over the location where the medicament has to be pressed through the breakable part of the cover sheet of the blister pack.
  • the label is provided with information, which information includes, in particular, the name of the medicament and the dose, but often also includes one or more further indications, such as the batch number, the expiry date, the drugs registration number. This information, or some of it, may be provided in a form which can be read by a person, but as an alternative or in combination may also be provided in machine-readable form, such as a barcode, a so-called two-dimensional barcode, etc.
  • the label When a dose of the medicament is administered to the patient in the hospital, the label is detached from the blister-pack section by taking hold of a non-adhesive edge strip of the label and pulling off the label. Then, the label which has been detached is stuck onto a different base, in particular onto the records card for the patient in question, once again using the self-adhesive action of the label. As a result, it is immediately clear which medicaments have been administered to the patient. If appropriate, the barcode is read using a suitable reader.
  • one drawback of the known blister pack is that an undesirably large amount of material is required for the pack. This has an adverse effect on the cost price and also leads to an undesirably large amount of waste in the hospital and to undesirable environmental pollution. Particularly if PVC or an environmentally polluting material of this type is included in the blister pack - for reasons of packaging technology - it is desirable to reduce the amount of packaging material.
  • the present invention provides a blister pack according to the preamble of claim 1 which is characterized in that the label sheet projects beyond the periphery of the base element in the direction which is transverse with respect to the longitudinal direction of the strip-like blister pack, the projecting part of the substrate of the label sheet being covered on the self-adhesive side by a backing layer.
  • a backing layer of this type is also known as a release liner.
  • This measure according to the invention advantageously allows the width of the base element and the cover sheet which covers the base element to be greatly reduced compared to the width of the known blister pack for hospital use.
  • the consumer version has a minimal width which is wider than the dimension of the recesses only to a sufficient extent to ensure good adhesion of the base element and the cover sheet around the recess.
  • the label according to the invention projects beyond the said narrow assembly of base element and cover sheet of the blister pack, the backing layer then preventing the projecting part of the label sheet from sticking undesirably to other objects or bases.
  • one advantage of the blister pack according to the invention is that it is now also possible, even after the label has been detached, to remove the backing layer from the label and to stick the label to the records card or some other base by means of the part of the self-adhesive side which is then exposed and still has a good level of adhesion. In this way, any problem involving the label not sticking or sticking insufficiently is eliminated, and consequently it is possible to prevent an insufficiently sticky label from coming off the records card or extra work being required in order to stick the label to the records card in some other way.
  • the blister pack according to the invention it is possible to match the width of the label to the information which is to be displayed without major drawbacks for the environment and the amount of waste produced. It is possible to retain the effect that the information on a label can easily be read by hospital staff, which means that the size of letters used to represent this information has to be sufficiently large. Furthermore, a relatively wide barcode can be applied to the label without difficulties.
  • the backing layer of the label sheet extends as far as between the covering sheet of the blister pack and the self-adhesive substrate of the label sheet, in such a manner that the intervening backing layer locally, preferably in an edge region of the blister pack, prevents adhesion between the cover sheet of the blister pack and the self-adhesive substrate of the label sheet.
  • the self-adhesive substrate of the label sheet prefferably printed, for example using a thermal printing device as is customary for self-adhesive labels.
  • the backing layer of the label sheet prefferably printed with information on the side which is away from the self-adhesive substrate.
  • the label sheet only projects beyond the base element of the blister pack on one side. To make optimum use of the space, it is possible for the label sheet then to completely cover the back side of the cover sheet of the blister pack.
  • the invention also provides a method for producing the above-described blister pack with label, as described in claim 6.
  • Figure 1 shows a blister pack 1 according to the invention for a plurality of doses of a medicament, in this case for four doses.
  • the blister pack 1 comprises a base element 2 in the form of an elongate strip with a substantially rectangular outer periphery, which base element 2 is provided, in the longitudinal direction, with a series of recesses 3 which project on the front side of the base element 2.
  • Each recess 3 is designed to accommodate one dose of the relevant medicament, which dose is in the form, for example, of a pill or capsule.
  • the blister pack 1 also comprises a cover sheet 5 which covers the rear side of the base element 2 and covers the recesses 3, so that each dose of the medicament is enclosed in its recess 3.
  • the cover sheet 5 may be such that the pill or capsule can be pressed through the cover sheet 5, and/or it may be provided for it to be possible to pull the cover sheet 5 off the base element 2.
  • the width of the blister pack 1 is limited to a width which ensures that, where the base element 2 and the cover sheet 5 are stuck to one another, an annular region of at least a few millimetres is present around each recess.
  • This adhesion can be obtained, for example, using a suitable glue but also, for example, by means of a fusion weld.
  • the total width of the base element and the cover sheet above it in the blister pack is 2 cm.
  • the base element 2 and the cover sheet 5 attached to it are provided with transversely oriented perforation lines 6 between the recesses 3, which perforation lines make it easy to divide the blister pack 1 into discrete sections by hand, which sections each include a single recess 3 containing one dose of the medicament.
  • transverse incisions are made in the base element 2 and the cover sheet 5 instead of perforation lines 6. This reduces the force required to detach a section from the blister pack.
  • a flat label sheet 10 is arranged on the rear side of the cover sheet 5 of the blister pack 1.
  • the label sheet 10 comprises a substrate 11 which is self-adhesive on one side and is stuck to the rear side of the cover sheet 5 by means of the said self-adhesive side.
  • the label sheet 10 is also provided with perforation lines 12 which match the perforation lines 6 in the base element 2 and the cover sheet 5 of the blister pack 1, so that when a discrete section of the blister pack 1 is removed, a section of the label sheet 10, which forms a label, remains stuck to the blister-pack section which has been removed.
  • Each section of the label sheet 10 is provided, on the side away from the self-adhesive side, with information, such as the name of the medicament, the dose, the batch number, the expiry date, the drug registration number, etc.
  • This information may be applied in a form which can be read by a person and/or in machine-readable form, for example in the form of a barcode.
  • the information may, for example, be applied to the substrate 11 which is suitable for thermal printing using a thermal printing device.
  • the name of the medicament and the dose are shown in such a way that they can be read by a person.
  • the label sheet 10 projects beyond the coinciding peripheries of the base element 2 and the cover sheet 5 in the direction which is transverse to the longitudinal direction of the strip of the blister pack, the projecting part of the substrate 11 of the label sheet 10 being covered by a backing layer 20 on the self-adhesive side.
  • the backing layer 20 is used in the first instance to prevent the self-adhesive side of that part of the label sheet 10 which projects outwards from unintentionally sticking to all kinds of bases.
  • the excess width of the label sheet 10 compared to the base element 2 and cover sheet 5 of the blister pack 1 allows the desired information to be accommodated on each label which is to be detached in a clearly legible manner while using a minimal amount of material for the base element 2 and the cover sheet 5 of the blister pack 1.
  • the backing layer 20 of the label sheet 10 extends as far as between the cover sheet 5 of the blister pack 1 and the self-adhesive substrate 11 of the label sheet 10, in such a manner that the intervening backing layer 20 locally, preferably in an edge region of the base element and cover sheet, prevents adhesion between the cover sheet and the self-adhesive substrate of the label sheet 10. This makes it easier to remove a label and also prevents the backing layer from unintentionally becoming detached from the self-adhesive side of the substrate 11 in this area.
  • the backing layer 20 of the label sheet 10 may have information printed on it, in particular on the side which is away from the self-adhesive substrate 11.
  • the label sheet 10 only projects beyond the base element 2 and the cover sheet 5 of the blister pack 1 on one side. It can also be recognised that the label sheet 10 completely covers the back side of the cover sheet 5.
  • the starting point for the production of the blister pack 1 shown in Figure 1 is an assembly of two blister packs 1 in strip form without a label, as shown in Figure 2. These blister packs 1 bear against one another by means of a longitudinal side and are in this case connected to one another via an intermediate breakable connection. This breakable connection is in this case formed by a perforation line 22. It should be noted that the assembly shown in Figure 2 is generally known and can be produced with a high capacity. Assemblies of this type are currently in production in particular for the consumer market.
  • the other starting point for the production of the blister pack shown in Figure 1 is a label sheet 30 which is double the width of a label sheet 10.
  • the label sheet 30 has a substrate 11 which is self-adhesive on one side, which substrate 11 is originally covered on the self-adhesive side by a backing layer which is composed of a central backing-layer web (which has already been removed in Figure 3) and two outer backing-layer webs 20, which webs are separated from one another by cuts in the backing layer.
  • the label sheet 30 is also provided with perforation lines 12 which are at the same distance from one another as the perforation lines 6 of the base element and the cover sheet of the blister pack 1.
  • That side of the substrate 11 of the label sheet 30 which is away from the self-adhesive side can be printed using known means, for example a thermal printing device.
  • the central backing-layer web is preferably removed after the label sheet 30 has been printed. Then, the label sheet 30 is stuck to the cover sheet 5 of the assembly of blister packs shown in Figure 2 using the central web of the self-adhesive side of the substrate 11 which is now exposed. In a following step, the assembly obtained is then divided in two. In this step, it is possible for the label sheet 30 to be provided with a central perforation line, or it is also possible, for example, to use a cutting device. It will be clear that in the latter case the perforation line 22 in the assembly shown in Figure 2 could also be absent.

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