Stacked Within Container Patents (Class 206/535)
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Patent number: 11794964Abstract: An assembly (2) for dispensing liquids comprises: • a base member (8); • a cap (4) on the base member (8); and • a dispensing capsule (6) in the base member (8) and covered by the cap (4). The dispensing capsule (6) comprises: • a capsule body (7) having a first end (16) and a second end (18); • at least one wall (20) defining a first cavity (38) within the capsule body, the first cavity (38) having a first opening at the first end (16) of the capsule body; • at least one wall (22) defining a second cavity (40) within the capsule body, the second cavity (40) having a second opening at the first end (16) of the capsule body; • the first opening and the second opening provided with a seal member (64) which seals the first cavity (38) and the second cavity (40). The walls of the first cavity and the second cavity are collapsible if pressure is applied to the cavities from the second end (18) of the capsule body.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: TRISTEL PLCInventors: Jeremy Turner, Paul Swinney, Elizabeth Dixon, Thomas Brand, Elanor Dixon
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Patent number: 11440714Abstract: A lockable and moisture-proof pill box has a storing base having at least one compartment for holding pills, at least one lid pivotally mounted on the storing base, and at least one sealing and pushing member. Each of the at least one lid has a sealing ring and a pushing bar integrally formed as a single part. With the at least one sealing and pushing member mounted between the storing base and the at least one lid, the at least one compartment in the storing base can be airtightly sealed by the sealing ring when being closed, so as to prevent the pills in the at least one compartment from being spilt. Moreover, each of the at least one lid can be automatically opened by push of the pushing bar. Thus, a user can take the pills held in the compartment easily and conveniently.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: E-Link Plastic & Metal Industrial Co., LTD.Inventor: You Lin Wang
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Patent number: 11345006Abstract: The disclosed subject matter includes an installation tool for sequentially mounting each of a plurality of grommets in an opening of a vehicle panel and related methods. The installation tool can include a receptacle including a case defining a storage space configured to accommodate the plurality of grommets. The receptacle can include an opening in communication with the storage space, the opening configured to hold a respective one of the grommets in an installation position in which a first portion of one of the grommets protrudes through the opening and a second portion of the respective one of the grommets is located in the storage space. A biasing structure can be movably mounted in the case and configured to bias each of the grommets in the storage space toward the installation position.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Emma Boughan, Benjamin A. Holtsberry, Phillip Michael Gonzales
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Patent number: 11246583Abstract: In one embodiment, a medical device includes a delivery tool having a carrier member, and a cartridge. The cartridge is coupled to the delivery tool. The cartridge defines an opening. The cartridge is configured to retain an anchor defining a lumen. The carrier member has a retracted configuration and an extended configuration. The carrier member is configured to extend through the lumen defined by the anchor and through the opening defined by the cartridge when the cartridge is coupled to the delivery tool and the carrier member is in its extended configuration.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Peter J. Pereira, Jonathan Zoll, Jozef Slanda, Michael S. H. Chu
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Patent number: 11191697Abstract: A storage device having a cylindrical housing with a first end, a second end and cylindrical side, wherein the ends are closed and the cylindrical side has one or more apertures. There is a cylindrical cover for each of the one or more apertures that slidably fit over the cylindrical side of the cylindrical housing and able to slide about the cylindrical side exposing or covering the one or more apertures.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Inventor: David Schmoyer
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Patent number: 11033351Abstract: A system for dispensing sterile covers for a stethoscope or other medical device, including a container including elongated members positioned in the container, terminating at tips proximate one end of the container; one or more collapsed pouches positioned inside the container, each pouch having open and closed ends and retainers, each retainer adapted to receive a corresponding elongated member, the collapsed pouches being supported on the elongated members; each pouch comprising a tab positioned proximate the open end for being grasped and pulled in a direction away and downwards from the elongated members, the open end forming an open position defined by the retainers and the tab for receiving a head of the stethoscope inside the pouch while the retainers remain engaged with the elongated members; after use, the pouch is removable from the stethoscope without a user contacting a patient contacting region of the cover.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: BUNNYCAP, LLCInventor: Alan Scott Perlman
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Patent number: 10744068Abstract: A pill dispenser includes an outer body for displaying one or more pills within the dispenser. A core is disposed within the outer body, and the core includes a channel extending along a length of the outer body to store the one or more pills within the channel. The pill dispenser further includes an actuator with a slot, and the actuator is joined to the outer body at a first end and rotatable about the core from a storage position to a dispensing position with the slot aligned with the channel. An actuator cover is joined to the actuator and includes an opening configured to align with the slot when the actuator is in the storage position.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: ABBVIE INC.Inventors: Lewis H. Sita, Bhimaprasad Medhal
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Patent number: 10556011Abstract: A method and system for administering pharmaceutical agents to a subject is provided. The system includes a course of treatment regimen, which includes a prescribed order of medicine amounts for periodic administration to the subject in the prescribed order. The amount of medicine includes a dose of at least one active pharmacological agent (APA) and an amount of at least one non-active pharmacological agent (NPA). The NPA provides at least one non-visual sensory cue. The dosage amounts of the APA contained within the amounts of medicine periodically administered in the prescribed order are varied within the course of treatment regimen, and the amount of the NPA contained within the amounts of medicine periodically administered in the prescribed order are held constant within the course of treatment regimen.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Inventors: Joshua D. Levine, Robert A. Levine
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Patent number: 10350143Abstract: A portable compact scaled-down programmable system for authorized dispensing of medicines is illustrated. The system includes at least one enclosure, a dispenser unit having an integrated cap and a plurality of dispensing slots, adapted to facilitate dispense of at least one medicine to an authentic user. The system further includes a driving mechanism for the upward and downward movement of the dispenser unit, a control unit to facilitate controlled functioning of functional units of the system, a primary sensor unit to facilitate the identification and authorization, a power supply unit, a micro-USB, a GNSS module, a set of status indicators having a liquid crystal display, a speaker, a vibrator and a LED, a set of knobs, and a communication facilitator. Further, the system can be operated either in stand-alone mode and or in paired mode. The system is configured to include a plurality of internet of things [IoT] modules.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Inventors: Murugesan Govindasamy, Cassie Sleppy
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Patent number: 9387290Abstract: The bioinjection device has a housing including a pistol grip and an elongated barrel. A trigger is pivotally mounted to the housing. A plunger and needle are slidable between a first position in which the plunger and needle are slidably disposed in the barrel and a second position in which the plunger and needle extend from an opening in the end of the barrel. A retaining member is disposed about the opening at the end of the barrel. A spring-biased actuation mechanism connects the trigger with the plunger and needle. A membranous cartridge containing bone morphogenic protein, antibiotics, and/or other medication is loaded into the retaining member. A surgeon can inject the cartridge into a bone fracture or degenerative bone tissue during surgery to deliver the medicament directly to the affected site.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Inventors: Clifford T. Solomon, Theodore C. Solomon
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Patent number: 9173812Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging for unit pharmaceutical products, comprising: a receiving element (3) having at least one cell (7) defining an inner space (9) configured so as to receive such a product (2) and an opening (9) to said space; an element (10) for covering said cell, fixed to said receiving element in the region of the opening and designed so as to be torn or removed in order to extract said product; and a repositionable temporary closing body (22) designed such that it occupies a determined initial position from which it can be removed and at least one temporary closing position wherein it is temporarily fixed by adhesion to said element around said opening to the space of said previously opened cell; said determined initial position being separate from said closing position and said temporary closing body having an at least partially pre-glued closing part (23).Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2012Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: SANOFIInventors: Stephane Chabanol, Guillaume Despins, Sophie Drexler, Stephanie Gaste, Francois Marin
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Patent number: 8997991Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging unit comprising a container and hygroscopic or humidity softenable film-like materials. For this purpose, said film-like materials are stacked in the container and a separating material which is chemically inert and physically stable with respect thereto is arranged at time between said film-like materials. Each time, said separating material is brought into contact with two film-like materials and does not adheres or adheres less strongly to at least one film-like material that to the other film-like material. Said invention makes it possible to develop a packaging unit provided with a container which guarantees a reliable individual withdrawal of the hygroscopic film-like materials.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2006Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: LTS Lohmann Therapie Systeme AGInventors: Bodo Asmussen, Markus Krumme
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Patent number: 8944247Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging unit (1), which comprises at least one agent-containing product (80), at least one main wrapping (30), and one secondary wrapping (10), wherein at least one agent-containing product (80) is stored sealed in each closed main wrapping (30), and wherein the main wrappings (30) are arranged in piles in the secondary wrapping (10) and are removably attached, at least in some regions, by means of perforation lines (38). Each main wrapping (30) of this is a sealed pouch with a gripping piece (70). The individual sealed pouch has a perforation seam (55) that bounds a tear-off region (47). The gripping piece (70) is joined to the tear-off region (47), opened by pulling a gripping piece (70), releases the agent-containing product (80). A further pulling of the gripping piece (70) separates the perforation line (38).Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2007Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: LTS Lohmann Therapie Systeme AGInventor: Ronald Hackbarth
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Patent number: 8708149Abstract: There is shown in three embodiments a pill blister pack container for holding a pill blister pack. The container having a first portion highedly attached to a second portion. The first portion being sized to fit within the second portion when the container is closed. Both the first and second portions have defined side walls and a front wall. In addition, the first portion includes flanges in the side walls that engage apertures in the second portion to lock the two portions. Furthermore, a least one support post extends between the two portions.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2012Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Berlin Packaging, LLCInventors: Liam Hawry, Brett Niggel, Scott Jost
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Patent number: 8689978Abstract: There is shown in three embodiments a pill blister pack container for holding a pill blister pack. The container having a first portion highedly attached to a second portion. The first portion being sized to fit within the second portion when the container is closed. Both the first and second portions have defined side walls and a front wall. In addition, the first portion includes flanges in the side walls that engage apertures in the second portion to lock the two portions. Furthermore, at least one support post extends between the two portions.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Berlin Packaging, LLCInventors: Nora Flood, Liam Hawry, Brett Niggel, Scott Jost
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Patent number: 8662305Abstract: A display package is provided that informs the customer of the product contained therein as well as providing a functional and useful storage unit for artificial nails when not in use. The display package includes a cylindrical neck portion at a first end having one or more grooves and a cap having one or more tabs located in an inner portion of the cap, the one or more tabs fitting into the one or more grooves. The display package further comprises a main body having a front wall, a back wall, and sidewalls that contour inwards to connect to the cylindrical neck portion, the main body having a flat base at a second end opposite to the cylindrical neck portion with the walls of the main body forming a cavity there within.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2011Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Kiss Nail Products, Inc.Inventor: Siyong Sung
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Patent number: 8528778Abstract: A substantially moisture tight container and lid assembly for storing and packaging moisture-sensitive items comprising an assembly with a container and a lid, the lid is attached by a hinge to an upper housing portion of the container, the lid includes a lip seal member that depends downwardly from the lid, the lip seal member is configured to abut at least a portion of the interior side of the container when the lid is in the closed position resulting in a substantially moisture tight seal between the lid and the lid, and the container assembly further comprising a base portion and an upper housing portion, the upper housing portion is capable of being snap-fit into the base portion by employing a lip seal mechanism to form a substantially moisture-tight seal.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2012Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: CSP Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Jean Pierre Giraud
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Patent number: 8388905Abstract: A system for diagnostic testing may include a meter for performing a diagnostic test on a sample applied to a test media, the meter having a housing and an interface for receiving a signal representing coding information, and a container configured to contain test media compatible with the meter, the container having a coding element associated therewith. Additionally, the system may provide a mechanisms for removing the meter from an interconnected test container and reattaching it to a new container using on-container coding methods that can recalibrate the meter for the new container of test strips. The system may further provide a sampling device, such as a lancet, operably connected to the container such that that a user may use the sampling device to obtain a sample without disconnecting the sampling device from the container.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2006Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Nipro Diagnostics, Inc.Inventors: Gary T. Neel, Brent E. Modzelewski, George R. Rounds, Carlos Oti, Allan Javier Caban
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Patent number: 8377697Abstract: The present disclosure provides test strip carriers for insertion into test strip vials and methods of making the same. Also provided are test strip vials including test strip carriers, and systems including test strip vials, test strip carriers and analytical test strips. The test strip carriers of the present disclosure are capable of engaging with the caps of test strip vials and thereby facilitating the retrieval of one or more test strips from the test strip vials upon opening of the test strip vials.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2012Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.Inventors: Christopher Myles, Cherie Bulala
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Patent number: 8356711Abstract: A system for closing containers of the bottle and/or jar type, which also dispenses active formulas from an airtight tubular space in its interior, into liquid or other content of a container when a mix is required. The system includes a movable push-cut carriage that is driven mechanically by an external puller to cut the seals of the tubular space and push the active formulas towards the interior of a bottle or jar. The closing system can be used for the incorporation of elements such as vitamins or minerals, which need to be stored separately from the content of the container in order to increase their useful life and improve their effectiveness, and in medical and/or pharmacological applications, to form mixtures of active formulas when they are required, thereby avoiding the rapid degradation of the final composition.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Inventors: Mauro Andres Canziani Hoffa, Jorge Francisco Aninat Solar
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Patent number: 8245849Abstract: A display package is provided that informs the customer of the product contained therein as well as providing a functional and useful storage unit for artificial nails when not in use. The display package includes a cylindrical portion and a main body, including a cavity within the main body of the display package. A first portion and a second portion of the display package divide the main body and the cylindrical portion and are joined together to form the display package. The display package is preferably in the shape of a bottle of nail polish and contains one or more trays having indentations for holding items such as artificial nails.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2010Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Kiss Nail Products, Inc.Inventor: Siyong Sung
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Patent number: 8236254Abstract: The present disclosure provides test strip carriers for insertion into test strip vials and methods of making the same. Also provided are test strip vials including test strip carriers, and systems including test strip vials, test strip carriers and analytical test strips. The test strip carriers of the present disclosure are capable of engaging with the caps of test strip vials and thereby facilitating the retrieval of one or more test strips from the test strip vials upon opening of the test strip vials.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2009Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.Inventors: Christopher Myles, Cherie Bulala
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Patent number: 8220636Abstract: A child-resistant package includes a case and blister cards. The blister cards are mounted for movement between stored positions inside the case and exposed positions outside the case.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2010Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Berry Plastics CorporationInventors: W. Gordon Beecroft, Chad E. Rice
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Patent number: 8146747Abstract: A foldable box holding a plurality of pouches is described. The foldable box comprises a lid, a cavity, a means for indicating the medications in each pouch, a means for associating the medications in the foldable box with a particular patient, a means for closing the box, and a means for recording that the medications in the pouch have been consumed. The lid is adjacent to a back wall that is rotatable along a first fold line. The bottom wall is adjacent to the back wall, two side walls, and a front wall that forms a cavity configured to receive a plurality of pouches. At least one pouch comprises a plurality of different tablets corresponding to a plurality of different medications that are for a particular patient.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2009Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Edge Medical Properties, LLCInventors: Robert A. Luciano, Jr., Russell Bradford, Leslie Baker, Clay McElhany
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Publication number: 20120048771Abstract: The invention relates to a device for storage and provision of medicament wafers 2 serving preferably for contraception or hormone replacement therapy, said device comprising a stack 1 of medicament pockets 4 for the storage and provision of the medicament wafers 2, wherein first medicament pocket areas 10 have openings 8 aligned with one another, and at least one connecting element 9 that is guided through the openings 8 and that connects the medicament pockets 4 to one another and arranges them movably relative to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2010Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: BAYER PHARMA AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Kathrin Reichardt, Sven Filler, Uwe Karla
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Patent number: 8066957Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a test strip container which provides easy access to test strips. The test strip container includes a lower housing, an upper housing, and a retaining member configured to releasably retain the test strips in a nested configuration. The nested configuration of the test strip container provides easy access to test strips by arranging the test strips so that they extend radially outward from the retaining member. The radial arrangement of the test strips operates to separate the test strips so that test strip users may easily select a single test strip from a plurality of test strips. Alternatively, the test strip container includes a lower housing, an upper housing, and a retaining member configured to releasably retain the test strips in a longitudinal configuration.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Frank A. Chan, Chris Wiegel
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Patent number: 7987986Abstract: To monitor the intake of medicaments present in wafer form, a device is made available which is suitable for storage and provision of such forms of administration. This device comprises medicament pouches, which are arranged as a stack of pouches and contain medicament wafers, and it has the following features: a) the device has a support 9 which extends parallel to an edge of the medicament pouches 1 and on which date indicators are arranged, b) a marking 20 is arranged on each of the medicament pouches 1 in such a way that markings 20 arranged on successive medicament pouches 1 in the stack of pouches are each in alignment with successive date indicators. This ensures monitoring of the intake of the wafers.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2008Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Bayer Schering Pharma AGInventor: Sabine Leifeld
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Patent number: 7950546Abstract: A substantially moisture tight container and lid assembly for storing and packaging moisture-sensitive items comprising an assembly with a container and a lid, the lid is attached by a hinge to an upper housing portion of the container, the container has a container base, and a sidewall depending upwardly from the base, a top container surface extends inward from the sidewalls, the top container surface is provided with an opening that permits access to the interior of the container, the lid portion has a lid base with an outer periphery that extends over at least a portion of the container portion, the lid base is provided with a skirt that depends downwardly from the base portion, the skirt is configured at a location on the base portion that allows the skirt to enter into a sealing relationship with the container portion, the lid includes a member that depends downwardly from the lid, the member is configured to abut at least a portion of the interior side of the container when the lid is in the closed posType: GrantFiled: October 20, 2005Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: CSP Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jean-Pierre Giraud, Michel Zbirka
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Patent number: 7866476Abstract: A product package includes a spine, a plurality of blister cards, and a coupler mechanism. Each blister card includes a plurality of individual cells. Each individual cell includes a blister for containing at least one product. The coupler mechanism is attached to the spine and re-attachably couples the plurality of blister cards within the product package.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2008Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Walgreen Co.Inventors: Sean McGonagle, Greg Pankow, Christina M. Marotta, Amy C. Biesenthal, William H. Valls, Zack Simmering
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Patent number: 7661534Abstract: A containment (3;3a;3b;3c) comprises an outer box (2;2a;2b;3c) defining an inner space where a stack of individual pouches (1;1a) is arranged. The individual pouches each have a pocket (10) containing a product, e.g. a thin-film strip (FS), and are designed to be individually removed from the stack. The outer box (2;2a;2b;2c) comprises a closure (26;26a;26b;26c) for preventing/allowing access to the individual pouches (1;1a) and further comprises means (20;20a;20b;20c) for interacting with the pouches (1;1a) in a manner such as to allow access to the pocket (10) upon removing the pouch from the stack. The means (20;20a;20b;20c) for interacting with the pouches are arranged such that upon removing a pouch (1;1a) from the stack the pouch is opened along an essential part of its longitudinal extension and is completely removed from the outer box (2;2a;2b;2c) with no residual part of the pouch (1;1a) remaining in the outer box.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2006Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Novartis, AGInventors: Christian Saclier, Marco Ackermann, Richard Miles, Matthew Grey
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Patent number: 7641050Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel type of medicine pack comprising a plurality of blister units (1), said blister units (1) each having a protective case (6), with a blister strip (4) located therein, the blister strip (4) being fixedly connected to the protective case (6), and the protective case being able to be unfolded or opened out, and also, if appropriate, an outer package (5, 5a) for receiving the blister units (1).Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2004Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: NYCOMED GmbHInventors: Andreas Klatt, Klaus Hinderegger
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Publication number: 20090321296Abstract: A foldable box holding a plurality of pouches is described. The foldable box comprises a lid, a cavity, a means for indicating the medications in each pouch, a means for associating the medications in the foldable box with a particular patient, a means for closing the box, and a means for recording that the medications in the pouch have been consumed. The lid is adjacent to a back wall that is rotatable along a first fold line. The bottom wall is adjacent to the back wall, two side walls, and a front wall that forms a cavity configured to receive a plurality of pouches. At least one pouch comprises a plurality of different tablets corresponding to a plurality of different medications that are for a particular patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Inventors: Robert A. Luciano, JR., Russell Bradford, Leslie Baker, Clay McElhany
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Patent number: 7631764Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a packaged supply of individual doses of a personal care product, such as strips of a water-soluble film that may or may not contain a pharmaceutically active material, including a dispenser apparatus including a tray, cover and side portions and at least one packet freely positioned within the dispenser apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2008Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: McNeil-PPC, IncInventors: Steven Ginsberg, Bradford S. Grant
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Patent number: 7607541Abstract: A portable liquid medication storage and dispensing unit includes a main container body with associated first and second lids. The first lid encloses a medicine dropper which is removably coupled to an outside wall of the main container body. The second lid provides access to the interior of the main container body. A plurality of stacked vials is introduced into the main container body when the second lid is open. Each of the stacked vials is filled with a pre-measured dosage of liquid medication and configured to allow the pre-setting of time for the user to take a particular medication dose. The vials may be secured and stacked within the main container body in a non-square or square matrix configuration.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2006Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Inventors: Deborah Girgis, Victoria Lombardi
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Patent number: 7604124Abstract: A container for storing and dispensing pelletized products includes an elongate hollow tube, an exterior panel integrally tangentially extending from the tube and dosage period indicia on the panel adjacent to the tube. Spacings between the dosage period indicia on the panel preferably are coordinated with a predetermined size of the pelletized products within the tube such that a dosage period indicium is disposed adjacent to each pelletized product in the tube when the tube is full. The dosage period indicia can be molded, printed or labeled on the panel. The dosage period indicia preferably are days of the week, and multiple containers, preferably four containers, can be assembled in a package for sale to a consumer.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2007Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Rexam Healthcare Packaging Inc.Inventor: John M. Shingle
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Patent number: 7581642Abstract: A child-resistant and senior-friendly unit dose package has a hollow container body and a tray with a plurality of items secured thereto for being dispensed from the container body. The container body has an end with an elongate opening defined by a rim, and the tray can be slid to a retracted position in which the tray is located within the container body and a dispensing position in which the tray extends at least partially through the opening of the container body. The package includes a separate cap removably securable to the container body to seal the opening and prevent access to the tray. Multiple simultaneous manipulations are required to remove the cap from the container body thereby providing a child-resistant connection.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2007Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignee: Anderson Packaging, Inc.Inventors: Curt Knutson, Ryen Sack, Ronald J. Seibert, Shawn P. Reilley
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Patent number: 7571811Abstract: The medication organizer is a portable, wall-mountable, carousel-style cabinet for dispensing medication and, more particularly, a medication dispenser in which a plurality of different medication dosages can be contained in separate bins with the dispenser being clearly marked to indicate which dosages and times a user is to take a specific medication. The device includes a portable cabinet having a rotatable carousel for capsule containers, drug bottles, etc, and a drawer having at least one removable drawer tray that includes a plurality of bins arranged longitudinally side-by-side. The bins are provided for receiving individual medication dosages, e.g., groups of individual pills, capsules, or the like. The carousel has an arcuate sliding door for securing the contents therein.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2008Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Inventor: Azanaw Mulaw
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Publication number: 20090139893Abstract: A product package includes a spine, a plurality of blister cards, and a coupler mechanism. Each blister card includes a plurality of individual cells. Each individual cell includes a blister for containing at least one product. The coupler mechanism is attached to the spine and re-attachably couples the plurality of blister cards within the product package.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2008Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: WALGREEN CO.Inventors: Sean McGonagle, Greg Pankow, Christina M. Marotta, Amy C. Biesenthal, William H. Valls, Zack Simmering
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Patent number: 7537137Abstract: A substantially moisture tight container and lid assembly for storing and packaging moisture-sensitive items comprising an assembly with a container and a lid, the lid is attached by a hinge to an upper housing portion of the container, the lid includes a lip seal member that extends downwardly from the lid, the lip seal member is configured to abut at least a portion of the interior side of the container when the lid is in the closed position resulting in a substantially moisture tight seal between the lid and the lid, and the container assembly further comprising a base portion and an upper housing portion, the upper housing portion is capable of being snap-fit into the base portion by employing a lip seal mechanism to form a substantially moisture-tight seal.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: CSP Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Jean-Pierre Giraud
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Patent number: 7472793Abstract: A storage device which is suitable for presorting and having ready medicaments, particularly solid medicaments, and which is adapted to the medically prescribed, individual intake rhythm of the corresponding patients in such a way that the right dose can be administered at prescribed times without any problem. The storage device is in the form of magazines in which several receptacles (B) are stacked in semi-inclined position in a receiving container (A).Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2002Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Inventors: Karin Berghaeuser, Karl-Heinz Buechner, Bertram Fritzsch, Andreas Schuster, Tobias Schuster
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Patent number: 7434692Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a packaged supply of individual doses of a personal care product, such as strips of a water-soluble film that may or may not contain a pharmaceutically active material, including a dispenser apparatus including a tray, cover and side portions and at least one packet freely positioned within the dispenser apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2006Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: McNeil-PPC, Inc.Inventors: Steven Ginsberg, Bradford S. Grant
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Publication number: 20080093254Abstract: A portable liquid medication storage and dispensing unit includes a main container body with associated first and second lids. The first lid encloses a medicine dropper which is removably coupled to an outside wall of the main container body. The second lid provides access to the interior of the main container body. A plurality of stacked vials is introduced into the main container body when the second lid is open. Each of the stacked vials is filled with a pre-measured dosage of liquid medication and configured to allow the pre-setting of time for the user to take a particular medication dose. The vials may be secured and stacked within the main container body in a non-square or square matrix configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2006Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Deborah Girgis, Victoria Lombardi
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Patent number: 7357255Abstract: A packaged supply of individual doses of a personal care product, e.g., strips of a water-soluble film that contains a pharmaceutically active material, comprises the combination of a) a tray; b) a plurality of substantially identical packets uniformly stacked in the tray, each packet having a pouch portion that holds a single dose of the product and a tab portion releasably connected to the pouch portion; c) retention means for holding the tab portions of the stacked packets in the tray; and d) a cover that is movably connected to the tray, the cover being movable between a closed position in which the stack of packets is enclosed within the tray and an open position in which the pouch portion of the topmost packet on the stack is sufficiently exposed that its front edge can be gripped, allowing the pouch portion to be pulled away from the restrained tab portion to which it is connected, thereby releasing that pouch portion from the tray.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2004Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: McNeil-PPC, Inc.Inventors: Steven Ginsberg, Bradford S. Grant
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Publication number: 20070235368Abstract: A child-resistant and senior-friendly unit dose package has a hollow container body and a tray with a plurality of items secured thereto for being dispensed from the container body. The container body has an end with an elongate opening defined by a rim, and the tray can be slid to a retracted position in which the tray is located within the container body and a dispensing position in which the tray extends at least partially through the opening of the container body. The package includes a separate cap removably securable to the container body to seal the opening and prevent access to the tray. Multiple simultaneous manipulations are required to remove the cap from the container body thereby providing a child-resistant connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2007Publication date: October 11, 2007Applicant: ANDERSON PACKAGING, INC.Inventors: Curt Knutson, Ryen Sack, Ronald Seibert, Shawn Reilley
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Patent number: 7213720Abstract: A container and cap assembly for storing and packaging moisture-sensitive items comprising an assembly with a container and a cap, a portion of the cap includes a lid that is attached by a hinge to the cap portion, the container has a container base, and a sidewall depending upwardly from the base, a top container surface extends inward from the sidewalls, the top container surface is provided with an opening that permits access to the interior of the container, the cap portion has a base portion with an outer periphery that extends over at least a portion of the container portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2003Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: CSP Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Jean-Pierre Giraud
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Patent number: 7188729Abstract: A child resistant blister pack container for stacked blister packs includes a bottom member, a top member, and a child resistant push and lift mechanism. The bottom and top members, once filled and assembled, cannot be separated. They work together with a locking mechanism to assure that the stack of blister packs are secured, and that, upon removal of a blister package from the pack, the sealed medication of that package is automatically opened for use. This important feature prevents or discourages users from removing multiple packages that might other wise be unprotected until used.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2005Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: DeJonge Associates, Inc.Inventor: Stuart W. DeJonge
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Patent number: 7128997Abstract: Representative embodiments provide for a fuel activation device including a fuel storage chamber configured to store a plurality of fuel pellets arranged as a stack. A fuel dispensing device is configured to transport a fuel pellet to a fuel activation chamber. A spring is configured to advance the fuel pellets toward the fuel dispensing device as one or more fuel pellets are removed from the stack. A fuel initiator is configured to activate a release of hydrogen gas from the transported fuel pellet. The fuel activation device is configured to provide the hydrogen gas to a fuel cell through a gas vent. A method is provided including providing a plurality of fuel pellets arranged as a spring-loaded stack, transporting a fuel pellet from the stack, activating a release of hydrogen gas from the transported fuel pellet, and providing the hydrogen gas to a fuel cell.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2003Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Philip H. Harding, Louis C. Barinaga, John C. Greeven, Paul H. McClelland, Joseph W. Tsang, Makarand Gore
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Patent number: 7074390Abstract: A single use capsule containing dentifrice is disclosed. It includes toothpaste or other dentifrice enclosed in a shell or coating. The dentifrice may include miswak fibers, which acts as a natural brush, therefore obviating the need for a traditional brush. The coating may include choline and albumin. In use, a capsule is placed in the mouth, burst with the teeth, and then distributed throughout the mouth with the tongue. The teeth can then be brushed with a traditional brush, or the tongue can rub the miswak fibers over the teeth in lieu of using a brush.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2003Date of Patent: July 11, 2006Inventor: Carol L. MacKinnon
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Patent number: 6708826Abstract: A packaged supply of individual doses of a personal care product, e.g., strips of a water-soluble film that contains a pharmaceutically active material, comprises the combination of a) a tray; b) a plurality of substantially identical packets uniformly stacked in the tray, each packet having a pouch portion that holds a single dose of the product and a tab portion releasably connected to the pouch portion; c) retention means for holding the tab portions of the stacked packets in the tray; and d) a cover that is movably connected to the tray, the cover being movable between a closed position in which the stack of packets is enclosed within the tray and an open position in which the pouch portion of the topmost packet on the stack is sufficiently exposed that its front edge can be gripped, allowing the pouch portion to be pulled away from the restrained tab portion to which it is connected, thereby releasing that pouch portion from the tray.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2003Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company, LLCInventors: Steven Ginsberg, Bradford S. Grant
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Patent number: 6527140Abstract: A tablet dispenser comprises an upwardly-open body portion (2), a plurality of flexible, circumferentially spaced tabs (4) around the upper end thereof to extend upwardly therefrom whereby gaps (6) are defined between adjacent tabs (4), an apertured lid portion (16) encasing the tabs (4) whereby the tabs (4) underlie the inner surface of the lid portion (16), cooperating locations means (10, 28) on the body portion (2) and the lid portion (16) so positioned that, on initial assembly of the dispenser, the lid portion (16) is located on the body portion (2) with the aperture (34) overlying a tab (4) to define a closed position of the dispenser, the lid portion (16) being rotatable relative to the body portion (2) to an open position in which the aperture (34) is aligned with a gap (6) between two adjacent tabs (4), and resilient means (14) reacting between the body portion (2) and the lid portion (16) such that it is first of all necessary to depress the lid portion (16) against the bias of the resilient meansType: GrantFiled: October 29, 2001Date of Patent: March 4, 2003Assignee: Audus Noble LimitedInventors: David Noble Thompson, Stephen William Bushby, Ian Tennick, Keith Stephenson