WO1992007769A1 - Systme de fermeture d'emballage avec fonction de decoration, d'identification et de differenciation - Google Patents

Systme de fermeture d'emballage avec fonction de decoration, d'identification et de differenciation Download PDF

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WO1992007769A1
WO1992007769A1 PCT/US1991/008207 US9108207W WO9207769A1 WO 1992007769 A1 WO1992007769 A1 WO 1992007769A1 US 9108207 W US9108207 W US 9108207W WO 9207769 A1 WO9207769 A1 WO 9207769A1
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Charles Papciak
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The West Company, Incorporated
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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
    • A61J1/00—Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes
    • A61J1/03—Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes for pills or tablets
    • 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
    • B65D51/00—Closures not otherwise provided for
    • B65D51/18—Arrangements of closures with protective outer cap-like covers or of two or more co-operating closures
    • 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
    • B65D51/00—Closures not otherwise provided for
    • B65D51/24—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes
    • B65D51/245—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes provided with decoration, information or contents indicating devices, labels
    • 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
    • A61J2205/00—General identification or selection means
    • A61J2205/20—Colour codes
    • 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
    • A61J2205/00—General identification or selection means
    • A61J2205/30—Printed labels
    • 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
    • B65D2203/00—Decoration means, markings, information elements, contents indicators
    • 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
    • B65D2251/00—Details relating to container closures
    • B65D2251/0003—Two or more closures
    • B65D2251/0006—Upper closure
    • B65D2251/0015—Upper closure of the 41-type
    • 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
    • B65D2251/00—Details relating to container closures
    • B65D2251/0003—Two or more closures
    • B65D2251/0068—Lower closure
    • B65D2251/009—Lower closure of the 51-type

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  • Packaging and containers are filled with instructions, warnings, and other information.
  • Goods which can be packaged in vials, such as unit doses of medicaments, are packaged with written instructions inside the box or other package which contains the vial. These vials are intended for use with syringes and are to be applied to the patient at the bedside or other places of treatment.
  • nurses will be assigned to give medicines and the like to a number of patients at one period of time. Often times, the nurse administering the medicine will have an entire tray or even a cart full of medicines to be given to a part or all of a floor in a hospital.
  • the nurse or health care worker will have individual instructions for each patient, and will place those instructions on separate locations on the tray or cart. Reading each set of instructions separately, the health care worker will then place the appropriate medicines from the pharmacy- department of the hospital on the respective instruction sheets or slips of paper.
  • the system includes a closure on a pharmaceutical container, including an aluminum cap seal which has a first identifying indicia. Also provided is a removable overcap protecting the closure and having a second identifying indicia. The first and second indicia cooperatively convey information to the user of the container. Information is conveyed both before and after the overcap is removed.
  • Examples of information which is conveyed by the first and second indicia are safety messages, identity messages, dosage messages, restriction on use warnings, color codings and other instructions.
  • the indicia may convey contents, brand names, dosage strengths and other information.
  • Fig. 1 is an enlarged elevational view of one embodiment shown is section illustrating the attachment of a removable overcap onto a closure seal.
  • Figs. 2 - 5 are perspective, exploded views of different embodiments of the present invention.
  • the system of the present invention includes a device, shown generally by the reference numeral 10, which includes, among other parts of the closure system, a cap seal 11 which is normally made from aluminum.
  • the cap seal includes a top 13, on which a first identifying indicia may be placed.
  • the top terminates inwardly at the center hole 15 which is designed to accept the overcap 17.
  • Overcap 17, shown in Fig. 1, is typically a plastic button like member which has been formed or molded from plastic and which contains a second identifying indicia.
  • the annular dependent ring 19 is sized to fit hole 15 and, during assembly, is formed outward, shown at 19a as the dot and dash view of cap 17a fits on top 13. This entire assembly is then placed on a rubber stopper or other closure.
  • the health care worker merely presses upward against the cap 17a, fracturing frangible portions and exposing the top 13.
  • Fig. 2 Shown in Fig. 2 is a pharmaceutical product identification system in which the cap 21 is plain and the top 23 has been colored. Overcap 27 is clear, thereby allowing the information contained on the top to be seen both before and after removal of cap 27. This ensures that the health care worker using this system will have whatever . information is desired by the pharmacist, drug manufacturer, or physician, as need be, before and after the cap is removed.
  • the plain cap 31 has printed information such as advertising or instruction such as "must Be diluted" for potassium chloride.
  • This information is placed on top 33 which is visible through clear cap 37, both before and after the cap 37 has been removed. In this case, whether color coding or information is important for the user, that information can be relayed without any possibility of the information being thrown away with the cap.
  • a plain cap 41 with a plain top 43 include a printed cap 47 which is primarily for advertising purposes in this example.
  • a colored cap 51 and colored shoulder 53 are matched with a similarly colored cap 57.
  • the information is contained on cap 57, but the similarity of color coding allows the health worker to match the cap to the appropriate vial or container, even after the cap 57 has been removed.
  • the vials, not shown, to which the seal and cap are added may be clear or the same or different colors from the seal and/or cap.
  • the information conveyed by the first identifying indicia on the cap seal is cooperatively combined with the information conveyed by the indicia on the removable overcap, to provide a fail-safe redundancy of information at the point of use of the container to which they are applied.
  • safety messages such as the appropriate material for dilution or the quantity of dilution can be conveyed with both the first and second indicia, either duplicating the information or combining to convey that information.
  • Extra assurances are given when the same message is on both the cap and the top of the container seal.
  • restrictions on use or other warnings can be used.
  • the cap may state that dilution is required while the seal top may state that the contents cannot be used without dilution.
  • One particular example of the present invention which illustrates the important contribution made toward safety is the use of identical indicia, such as black coloring or warnings that the contents must be diluted before use, on both the closure and the overcap.
  • the over cap is removed by a nurse prior to the time when the contents are to be diluted, there is less likelihood that the instructions will be ignored because the same instructions are contained on the closure itself. If the overcap is misplaced or becomes mixed up with other overcaps, the safety alert is still present on the closure.
  • the nurse Prior to removal of the overcap, when the nurse is selecting medicines to take to the patient, she can rely on the overcap before it has been removed to convey the same necessary information. As she takes the steps to properly prepare the medicine cart or the like, removal of the cap will not cause the necessary information to be separated from the pharmaceutical container.
  • cap 17 may be manufactured from plastic such as polypropylene or other similar plastics.
  • plastic such as polypropylene or other similar plastics.
  • the specific material is not critical, as long as other functional requirements are met.
  • the plastic should be suitable for receiving printing or other information after formation, and such be susceptible to being colored prior to manufacture.
  • the seal can be made from a number of materials, although aluminum is the preferred material since it is suitable for application of colors through dies and lacquers, and since it is receptive to printing.
  • the product be immediately and visually identified. Messages, instructions or. warnings must be highly visible and for that reason the printing process must be sufficient to clearly define the color and/or information which is intended to be placed on either the cap, under seal, or both.
  • the colors should be easily duplicated, particularly since the cap and seal are often made at different points in the manufacturing process.
  • the products should be autoclavable, and thus would stand temperatures in excess of 121°C for sufficient time to sterilize the products. It should be noted that the information added to the products by the present invention is on the exterior and is never in contact with the contents of the vial. Accordingly, there is no reason for expensive qualification testing and the like.
  • the system of this invention contemplates the use of a color indicia and instructive words on both the pharmaceutical container closure and the removable overcap.
  • the color indicia of the closure and the overcap cooperatively convey information to the user of the container.
  • the instructive words also cooperatively convey information to the user.
  • a black closure and a black overcap together tell the user that the two were originally together and should be kept together, as well as telling the user that the contents must be diluted.
  • the instructive words also tell the user that the contents must be diluted prior to administration to the patient. Separation of the overcap from the closure also conveys information to the user.

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Abstract

L'invention se rapporte à un système d'emballage pour produits pharmaceutiques ayant une fonction d'identification et constitué par une fermeture (10) qui est placée sur un récipient contenant le produit pharmaceutique et qui se compose d'un capuchon scellé hermétiquement (11), lequel comprend une paroi annulaire solidaire et une face supérieure (13) tournée vers le haut. La fermeture et l'élément (17) recouvrant la capuchon comportent des repères d'identification pouvant se présenter sous la forme de couleurs et de mots qui ensemble fournissent à l'utilisateur du récipient d'emballage des informations sur le contenu.
PCT/US1991/008207 1990-10-30 1991-10-29 Systme de fermeture d'emballage avec fonction de decoration, d'identification et de differenciation WO1992007769A1 (fr)

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