US20060102512A1 - Device for selectively dispensing solid products from a blister strip retained in the device - Google Patents

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US20060102512A1
US20060102512A1 US11/238,967 US23896705A US2006102512A1 US 20060102512 A1 US20060102512 A1 US 20060102512A1 US 23896705 A US23896705 A US 23896705A US 2006102512 A1 US2006102512 A1 US 2006102512A1
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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
    • 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, or 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, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills all the articles being stored in individual compartments
    • B65D83/0463—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills all the articles being stored in individual compartments formed in a band or a blisterweb, inserted in a dispensing device or container
    • 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

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  • the present invention relates to a device able to retain and protect a blister strip having a plurality of separate seats containing solid products, the device being such as to enable the solid product enclosed in each housing of the blister strip to be selectively expelled when the blister of a housing is pressed with the finger of one hand.
  • blister strips consisting of an easily breakable air-impermeable sheet of aluminium (or other material) thermobonded to a sheet of transparent plastic material shaped to form cavities or projections which, together with the aluminium sheet, define housings in which said tablets or the like are positioned and protected.
  • the blister strip presents blisters or the like which can be individually squeezed or pressed with the finger of one hand to break the opposing portion of the aluminium sheet and hence expel the respective tablet from the blister strip.
  • Blister strips are widely distributed and are sold contained in boxes which are mostly formed of cardboard.
  • the thickness of the aluminium sheet can be increased (so increasing costs and the difficulty encountered in expelling the tablet from the blister strip), or rigid devices of moulded plastic or metal construction can be used in the form of a box in which to contain the blister strip, this box presenting opposing holes such that the blisters of the blister strip project from a series of holes provided in a wall of the box, to enable each individual tablet to be expelled through a hole provided in the opposing wall of the box; this presents serious drawbacks, one of which is its cost, another being that the person who acquires and wishes to use a blister strip must remember to also purchase or carry the box for containing the blister strip, a further drawback being that there is no protection against involuntary expulsion of a tablet each time one or more blisters are involuntarily squeezed.
  • the main object of the present invention is provide a device for housing and protecting a blister strip and for enabling an individual tablet to be dispensed only when the user wishes, and without the danger of causing simultaneous expulsion of other tablets or of damaging the aluminium sheet or the like defining the housing, the device being of extremely low cost and housable in the interior of each box housing blister strips, or be formed in one piece with the cardboard forming the box housing the blister strip.
  • a device characterised by being formed from a single sheet of cardboard in which a folding line is provided dividing the cardboard sheet into a first part and a second part which are rotatable about said folding line and superposable one on the other, in the first part there being provided a plurality of holes through which the blisters of a blister strip positioned between the two parts of the folded cardboard sheet can pass, in the second part there being provided knurlings defining a plurality of breakable discs which are aligned with the respective holes of the first part when the cardboard sheet is folded about said folding line, the discs of said second part of the cardboard sheet having dimensions at least equal to those of the solid products enclosed within the blister strip, which are expelled from the blister strip and from the device by pressing with the finger of one hand on a blister of the blister strip and by the consequent detachment of the disc below said blister.
  • FIG. 1 is a plan view of a cardboard sheet usable to form the device
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the cardboard sheet of FIG. 1 partly folded on itself and shown opposite a blister strip for tablets,
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the device at the moment of its use
  • FIG. 4 is an enlarged section through the device of FIG. 3 taken on the line 4 - 4 .
  • the device is formed from a single punched cardboard sheet divided into a first part 1 and a second part 2 (substantially identical) by a folding line 3 formed by creasing the cardboard sheet: notches are preferably provided along the folding line 3 to facilitate folding of the cardboard sheet and to reduce the elastic force which the cardboard sheet develops during its folding.
  • holes 4 are provided in an arrangement, shape and cross-section such as to enable passage of the blisters 5 projecting from the surface of the blister strip ( FIGS. 2-4 ) which the device is intended to house and protect.
  • the holes 4 of the part 1 become each aligned with and superposed on a respective disc 6 .
  • recesses 7 and respective cuts 8 are provided at those two ends of the parts 1 and 2 of the cardboard sheet distant from the folding line 3 .
  • the purpose of which is to mutually engage and enable the cardboard sheet folded on itself to remain folded, i.e. unable to open: it can be seen that the recesses 7 define between them an appendix 9 and that the cuts 8 each define a thin elongate appendix 10 .
  • the aforedefined device when in its rest position ( FIG. 1 ), in which it lies immediately after being produced by a cardboard article manufacturer, is intended to house a blister strip (of known type such as that indicated by the letter B in FIG. 2 ) having blisters 5 projecting from one part thereof to define housings each enclosing a tablet 11 (the tablet could instead be a capsule, a pill, etc.), whose escape from the respective housing is prevented by a thin sheet of aluminium (or other material) in known manner.
  • a blister strip of known type such as that indicated by the letter B in FIG. 2
  • the blisters 5 of the blister strip B are made to penetrate into the holes 4 of the part 1 of the cardboard sheet, which is then folded about the folding line 3 until the blister strip 5 is locked between the parts 1 and 2 of the cardboard sheet, as is apparent on viewing FIGS. 2 and 3 in succession.
  • the two elongate appendices 10 of the part 2 of the cardboard sheet are folded and passed through the recesses 7 of the part 1 until superposed on the appendix 9 of the part 1 , to hence lock the device in its folded and engaged state shown in FIG. 3 .
  • the blister strip is securely retained and protected between the two parts 1 and 2 of the cardboard sheet: when a tablet is to be expelled from the device, one of the blisters 5 is pressed with a finger (in the direction indicated by the arrow A in FIGS. 3 and 4 ) until the underlying disc 6 of the part 2 of the cardboard sheet is detached and the aluminium sheet under the pressed blister broken in correspondence of the blister 5 , so that the relative tablet 11 falls or escapes.
  • the cardboard sheet of FIG. 1 can very easily be produced together with the box, to which it can be connected by a simple breakable knurled line: in that case the device can be automatically inserted into the box at its make-up.

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