Classifications

• • 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
  • B65D75/28—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
  • B65D75/36—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 or blank being recessed and the other formed of relatively stiff flat sheet material, e.g. blister packages, the recess or recesses being preformed
  • B65D75/367—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 or blank being recessed and the other formed of relatively stiff flat sheet material, e.g. blister packages, the recess or recesses being preformed 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
  • B65D2215/00—Child-proof means
  • B65D2215/04—Child-proof means requiring the combination of different actions in succession
• • 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
  • B65D2575/3236—Cuts or weakening lines for initiating or facilitating subsequent peeling off of the non-rigid sheet
• • 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
  • B65D2575/36—One sheet or blank being recessed and the other formed or relatively stiff flat sheet material, e.g. blister packages
  • B65D2575/361—Details
  • B65D2575/362—Details with special means for gaining access to the contents
  • B65D2575/367—Details with special means for gaining access to the contents through a preformed opening in the flat sheet, e.g. the opening being defined by weakened lines

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a tamper evident, senior friendly and child
• Blister packs are well know in the art and are widely used to package individual
• the item or product is accessed through the rear of the blister pack
• the first is that the package should be tamper evident such that
• a second feature is that the package be child resistant.
• a conventional blister package usually comprises a laminate of a blister layer
• This foil backing layer is usually a form of an
• Patent 4,537,312 to Intini to include such certain child resistant features.
• a blister package having a front layer and outer
• Tabs are
• the package comprising a blister sheet having at least one blister pocket projecting from a front side thereof, a rupturable foil layer
• the foil layer having a thickness and being formed of a material which can be ruptured to
• one line of weakening extending into said board for only a portion of the thickness of the
• the blister pocket such that the reinforcing layer will delaminate when the tear strip is
• the tear strip is interconnected to a tab
• the foil may be removed by pushing the
• the contents in the blister pocket are conventionally tablets or capsules or the like.
• blister layer may be formed with a number of blister pockets projecting from a front side
• the sheet may comprise a normally rectangular continuous blister
• a film would be a vinyl thermoplastic film having a thickness in excess of 10 mil.
• the rupturable film sealed to the back side of the blister sheet is also well known in
• the reinforcing layer is preferably a paper product such paperboard.
• the tear strips are preferably a paper product such paperboard.
• in the paperboard layer may be defined by parallel lines of perforations or slits in the
• At one end of the strip there may be a tab which is not sealed to the foil layer.
• the line of weakening defining the tab may extend into the paperboard for a depth of preferably between 10 and 40% of
• the thickness of the paperboard and more preferably, approximately 30% of the thickness.
• dispensing of the product may extend into the paperboard for a distance of between 10
• Figure 1 is an exploded view illustrating the various components of a package
• Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view along the lines 2-2 of Figure 1 when the package
• Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2 illustrating partial opening of the package by
• Figure 4 is a view similar to Figures 2 and 3 illustrating the final step in the
• Figure 5 is perspective view illustrating the first step of Figure 3 in opening the
• Figure 1 an exploded view of a first embodiment of the present
• a blister layer 10 which has a plurality of
• blister pockets 12 formed therein in a conventional manner.
• layer 14 has cut-outs to receive the blister pockets and may carry pertinent information
• data layer 14 is generally of a paper or paperboard material.
• a rupturable foil layer 16 Secured to the underside of blister layer 10 is a rupturable foil layer 16.
• rupturable foil layers are well known in the art.
• a paperboard reinforcing layer 18 is secured to rupturable foil layer 16 by means of
• Paperboard layer 18 has a first side which lies adjacent to
• rupturable foil layer 16 and a second exteriorly facing side.
• tear strips 24 are formed in paperboard layer 18 as described
• Tear strips 24 each individually overly one of the blister
• tab 26 Associated with each tear strip 24 is a tab 26. Tabs 26 are not sealed to foil layer
• each tab 26 is defined by a slit 28 which extends
• partial cut 30 may extend into
• paperboard layer a distance approximately equal to 30% of the thickness of paperboard

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