WO2007007096A2 - Mecanisme de distribution - Google Patents

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WO2007007096A2
WO2007007096A2 PCT/GB2006/002575 GB2006002575W WO2007007096A2 WO 2007007096 A2 WO2007007096 A2 WO 2007007096A2 GB 2006002575 W GB2006002575 W GB 2006002575W WO 2007007096 A2 WO2007007096 A2 WO 2007007096A2
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Jonathan William Stollery
Kim Marie Jones
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Kim Marie Jones
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F15/00—Auxiliary appliances for wound dressings; Dispensing containers for dressings or bandages
    • A61F15/001—Packages or dispensers for bandages, cotton balls, drapes, dressings, gauze, gowns, sheets, sponges, swabsticks or towels
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
    • A61B50/00—Containers, covers, furniture or holders specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments, e.g. sterile covers
    • A61B50/20—Holders specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
    • A61B50/00—Containers, covers, furniture or holders specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments, e.g. sterile covers
    • A61B50/30—Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
    • A61B50/00—Containers, covers, furniture or holders specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments, e.g. sterile covers
    • A61B50/10—Furniture specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments

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  • the present invention relates to dispensing arrangements and more particularly to dispensing arrangements used with regard to items which may cause cross-contamination between patients.
  • Dispensers and containers are found throughout the world for various items in everyday use. These dispensers and containers can only be used in a fashion which could ailow the user to touch any or all of the following; the dispenser or container, the items to be dispensed or contained, other items within the dispenser or container, or the packaging for items in the dispenser or container. Also these dispensers or containers invariably do not prevent airflow over the items being contained or dispensed. It will also be understood that some items may be presented in strips with a number torn off and may be placed in a user's pocket causing further contamination.
  • a dispensing arrangement for articles which may be contaminated before use upon handling and/or removal, the arrangement comprising a plurality of containers presented in a stack, sides of adjacent containers being in close approximation to each other and portions of adjacent containers defining an enclosure for a product in use, external parts of the containers being handleable to allow removal from a base of the stack to allow access to the enclosure without contact within the container and/or with other containers.
  • a dispensing arrangement for an article which may be contaminated before use upon handling and/or removal, the arrangement comprising a plurality of containers presented in a stack, sides of adjacent containers being in close approximation to each other and portions of adjacent containers defining an enclosure for a product in use.
  • a dispensing arrangement for an article which may be contaminated before use upon handling and/or removal comprising a plurality of containers presented in a stack, sides of adjacent containers being in close approximation to each other and portions of adjacent containers defining an enclosure for a product in use to prevent air flow contamination of a product in the enclosure.
  • the arrangement includes an article in each enclosure.
  • the article is a product.
  • the article comprises a product in protective packaging.
  • sides of the containers include surface features for engagement with parts of an adjacent container for closure between adjacent containers in the stack.
  • the enclosure is defined between base parts of adjacent containers in, the stack.
  • the containers have a trough cross section.
  • the containers are flared.
  • the containers are deformably retentive to tactile contact and/or marked by such tactile contact.
  • the containers are disposable.
  • the containers are formed from cardboard or a plastics material or a mouldable material.
  • the containers are coated or impregnated with a biocide and/or disinfecting agent.
  • the containers in the stack have an integrity feature between adjacent containers broken when a container is forcibly removed from the base of the stack.
  • the integrity feature comprises an adhesive spot or rupturable thread/tape or fusible weld or perforated tab or other continuity between adjacent containers.
  • the arrangement includes a dispenser comprising a magazine for the stack with an open end to expose part of a container at the base of the stack to allow access for handling of that container for removal.
  • parts of the containers when at the base of the stack interfere with parts of the open end to retain the stack in the magazine.
  • parts of the containers comprise tabs which interfere with the parts of the open end in the form of flaps to retain the stack within the magazine and interference between the tabs and flaps is overcome in use by forcible handling to remove a container from the base of the stack.
  • the product which may be contaminated in the enclosure comprises a thermometer or pen or tongue depressor or swab.
  • a pen including a gripping part for gripping by a user and a nib, the pen being substantially flat and of substantially constant section thickness along its length to minimise in use the stacking height of a stack including a plurality of such pens.
  • a pen including a gripping part for gripping by a user and a nib, the pen being substantially flat with a tapering cross-section in one plane from the gripping part to define an elongate shape to extend in use over a user's gripping arc.
  • the pen is approximately 2mm thick.
  • Each pen in the stack may be enclosed by a container, which container may be as defined in any of the preceding paragraphs.
  • the pen may include a stem part, which may be narrow in width relative to the gripping part.
  • the relatively broad gripping part may be rounded, and may flare outwardly width wise from the stem part, and may converge inwardly width wise to a nib part.
  • the nib may extend from the nib part.
  • the pen may be arranged to permit only limited use by a user.
  • the pen may include a reservoir for ink, and the reservoir may be arranged to be of such capacity as to permit only limited use of the pen by a user.
  • Figure 1 is a perspective view of a container in accordance with a dispensing arrangement of the present invention
  • Figure 2 is a side cross-section of a dispensing arrangement in accordance with the present invention.
  • Figure 3 is a front cross-section of the dispensing arrangement as depicted in Figure 2;
  • Figure 4 is a front perspective view of dispensing arrangements in accordance with the present invention.
  • Figure 5 illustrates a pen and a thermometer which are articles which may suffer cross-contamination.
  • increasing problems with drug resistant agents and viruses has re-focused attention upon approaches to avoid cross- contamination between patients, either directly or indirectly though their carers and users of items such as pens, tongue depressors and thermometers.
  • Clearly increased hand washing will help but not if the tool used is the same, for example if medical notes are written with the same pen before and after hand washing the effectiveness of that hand washing is significantly undermined.
  • the user carries a number of items in their pocket even if these items are disposed of after use as the items or held in protective packaging there will be cross-contamination.
  • the present dispensing arrangement provides a convenient means by which articles such as pens, depressors, swabs and disposable thermometers can be accessed by users with reduced, if any, cross contamination between patients or potential users of the same articles such as a pen at a writing stand in a local bank.
  • the articles may be packaged or not to form an item which may become cross-contaminated.
  • the dispensing arrangement must be simple to use and cheap whilst achieving high packing densities.
  • the present dispensing arrangement comprises a container, normally in the form of a trough, which can be stacked to create an enclosure between the containers.
  • the side portions of the containers are in contact to provide a rudimentary barrier but generally there is only a limited seal and no hermetic seal.
  • the article held within the enclosure may be in a sterile package but the present dispensing arrangement is directed to preventing cross-contamination rather than maintaining product sterility in storage.
  • Figure 1 provides a perspective view of a container 1 used in a dispensing arrangement in accordance with the present invention.
  • the container 1 has a general trough shape with slightly flared side walls 2, 3 and a flat base portion 4.
  • the present dispensing arrangement is particularly suited to dispensing articles which are flat so generally as will be described later these articles will be specially designed to be flat and normally only for short term or single use life times.
  • the actual shape of the container will be to match the product it is to dispense but it will be understood that commonality of shape and sizing may reduce cost thorough economies of scale.
  • the container 1 has flaps 6 and/or tabs 7 to allow containers to be individually dispensed from a magazine through overcoming an interference with a reciprocal flap or tab in the magazine.
  • this individual container dispense is achieved simply by gripping an outer lower portion in the area 8 either side of the container.
  • the well 5 is exposed and the article can be removed normally by a tipping action. It will be understood that a new article for each individual patient can then be used and to gain access to this article contact is only made with one container which is then disposed of and so provided the user has washed between dispensing actions there will at least be no direct cross-contamination between patients in a sequence.
  • the container as indicated will be disposable.
  • the container may be formed of pressed cardboard or similar cheap mouldable material.
  • the container may be coated or impregnated with a biocide or disinfectant.
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 give respective side and front cross-sectional views of a dispensing arrangement in accordance with the present invention.
  • containers 21 are nested in a stack in order to define enclosures 25 in which articles 20 are kept.
  • These articles 20 may be pens or thermometers or swabs or depressors.
  • the containers 21 are held in a magazine 30 with tabs 27 and flaps 26 engaging reciprocal parts of the magazine 30 to hold the stack in place by interference although other latching or retention mechanisms could be used.
  • FIG. 4 provides an external perspective view of two dispenser arrangements in accordance with the present invention.
  • magazines 30a, 30b are side-by-side and secured by brackets 40 to a wall or other suitable surface.
  • a bottommost container 21 projects so that an outer surface 28 can be gripped to remove the container 21 in order to expose the article.
  • a top end 41 of the magazine 30 may be simply open or have a press on lid but in either event it will be understood that the magazine can be simply loaded by dropping a stack of containers through the end 41.
  • FIG 5 illustrates a pen 51 in figure 5a and a disposable thermometer 60 in figure 5b which are both generally flat.
  • the pen 51 is a flat spoon shaped member with a nib or felt which allows a few ⁇ lines of text to be written.
  • the thermometer 60 is of standard shape which is fiat.
  • the articles could be coated or impregnated with a biocide or disinfecting agent.
  • the special pens 51 designed for the dispenser each have a thin flat section made from any rigid or semi rigid material in order to maximise the number capable of being stacked one on top of another within any given length.
  • Each pen 51 is of constant section thickness along its length. In one example the section thickness is approximately 2mm.
  • Each pen 51 in plan view includes a relatively narrow stem part 52, which flares outwardly to a relatively broad, rounded gripping part 54.
  • the gripping part 54 converges inwardly to a nib end 56.
  • a nib 58 extends from the nib end 56.
  • a reservoir (not shown) is located within the nib end 56 to supply the nib 58 with ink.
  • the reservoir is arranged to be of such capacity as to allow only limited use of the pen 51.
  • the capacity could, for instance, be such as to only allow the writing of notes for a single patient, after which the pen is thrown away.
  • the limited reservoir capacity thus reduces the risk of cross contamination between patients.
  • the nib 58 and ink could be arranged so that the ink flows during continuous use, but will cease to flow if not used for a predetermined, relatively short period of time. To facilitate this, the ink could be formulated to be relatively fast drying.
  • the relatively broad, rounded gripping part 54 in combination with the relatively narrow stem part 52 is comfortable and easy for holding by a user, in contrast to a pen which of constant width along its length.
  • the stem part 52 is long enough to rest against the user's hand in use over a gripping arc from the fingers to the edge of the palm of the user's hand, to steady the pen 51 in the user's fingers and allow ease and comfort of use,
  • a pen of round cross section of only 2mm diameter is less comfortable and more difficult to use.
  • the flat pen of the present invention may only be 2mm in cross-sectional depth but wider at a gripping part in one plane.
  • the shape of the pen as described allows dense stacking of a plurality of pens and ease and comfort of use by a user. Such easy and comfortable use is important, since otherwise users will substitute other pens and circumvent the cross contamination prevention arrangements.
  • This invention relates to the storage, carriage and dispensation of items such as pens and thermometers in a fashion which precludes the perpetuation of disease and cross infection by harmful micro-organisms from contact with other items within the dispenser or container, the packaging of the items, dispenser or container, and from the airflow around the items, whilst enabling the largest number of items to be stored within the dispenser unit.
  • a dispensing unit which can be conveniently situated by mounting to any convenient surface.
  • This dispenser is compact with overall sectional dimensions similar to the size of the items to be dispensed.
  • the containers will be trough shaped to accommodate items such as pens, thermometers, tongue depression sticks or swabs These items are stored within the dispenser within and at the bottom of the trough shaped stacking containers which can be manufactured from any rigid or semi rigid material, preferably of bio-degradable or re-cyclable material. These containers have a base area which is similar in shape to, and slightly larger than the item which is to be dispensed when the item is lying flat in the bottom of the container. The walls of the container are tapered outwards and upwards from the base thus allowing the containers to stack inside one " another to save space.
  • the top of the container has a lip or lips which protrude outwards from the top rim providing a means of locating the container within the dispenser.
  • the length of the container protrudes below the dispenser is designed in such a fashion to prevent the contact by user of the dispenser unit in the action of removing a container from the unit.
  • the containers are stacked within the dispenser with the items to be dispensed interspersed between them.
  • the action of removing the lowest or outermost container from the dispenser enabling the user to extract the contents without contacting the dispenser, the next item to be dispensed or the container of the next item to be dispensed, preventing cross, contamination by such actions.

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L'invention porte sur un mécanisme de distribution d'un article qui pourrait être contaminé avant l'emploi lors de sa manipulation et/ou de son retrait, lequel mécanisme comprend une pluralité de contenants présentés en pile, les côtés de contenants adjacents se trouvant à proximité immédiate l'un de l'autre et des parties de contenants adjacents définissant une enceinte destinée à un produit en cours d'emploi, les parties externes des contenants pouvant être manipulées pour permettre le retrait depuis la base de la pile et donner accès à l'enceinte sans contact avec l'intérieur du contenant et/ou avec les autres contenants.
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WO2009061888A2 (fr) * 2007-11-08 2009-05-14 Medline Industries, Inc. Système et procédé de fourniture de garnitures de tiroir jetables pour chariots médicaux et chirurgicaux
EP2444022A3 (fr) * 2010-10-20 2013-12-18 The Royal College of Art Sacoche médicale
CN110631736A (zh) * 2019-09-03 2019-12-31 广州市妙伊莲科技有限公司 一种具有防止交叉感染的防护性强的人体温度测量装置

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US3273749A (en) * 1965-07-28 1966-09-20 Stanley E Thompson Tongue blade dispenser
US3411665A (en) * 1966-05-06 1968-11-19 Ultra Custom Pak Inc Disposable container, container package and dispensing structure
US3366226A (en) * 1967-02-06 1968-01-30 Maryland Cup Corp Slender article jacket
US3918579A (en) * 1972-03-30 1975-11-11 Marcus Diamant Protective wrappers for substantially solid objects
WO1990004381A1 (fr) * 1987-04-27 1990-05-03 Be Ch Medical Ab Utilisation de systeme a gobelets
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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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WO2009061888A2 (fr) * 2007-11-08 2009-05-14 Medline Industries, Inc. Système et procédé de fourniture de garnitures de tiroir jetables pour chariots médicaux et chirurgicaux
WO2009061888A3 (fr) * 2007-11-08 2009-07-30 Medline Ind Inc Système et procédé de fourniture de garnitures de tiroir jetables pour chariots médicaux et chirurgicaux
EP2444022A3 (fr) * 2010-10-20 2013-12-18 The Royal College of Art Sacoche médicale
CN110631736A (zh) * 2019-09-03 2019-12-31 广州市妙伊莲科技有限公司 一种具有防止交叉感染的防护性强的人体温度测量装置

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