Stacked Within Container Patents (Class 206/535)
  • Patent number: 11794964
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TRISTEL PLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Turner, Paul Swinney, Elizabeth Dixon, Thomas Brand, Elanor Dixon
  • Patent number: 11440714
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: E-Link Plastic & Metal Industrial Co., LTD.
    Inventor: You Lin Wang
  • Patent number: 11345006
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Emma Boughan, Benjamin A. Holtsberry, Phillip Michael Gonzales
  • Patent number: 11246583
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter J. Pereira, Jonathan Zoll, Jozef Slanda, Michael S. H. Chu
  • Patent number: 11191697
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventor: David Schmoyer
  • Patent number: 11033351
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: BUNNYCAP, LLC
    Inventor: Alan Scott Perlman
  • Patent number: 10744068
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: ABBVIE INC.
    Inventors: Lewis H. Sita, Bhimaprasad Medhal
  • Patent number: 10556011
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Inventors: Joshua D. Levine, Robert A. Levine
  • Patent number: 10350143
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Inventors: Murugesan Govindasamy, Cassie Sleppy
  • Patent number: 9387290
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Inventors: Clifford T. Solomon, Theodore C. Solomon
  • Patent number: 9173812
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: SANOFI
    Inventors: Stephane Chabanol, Guillaume Despins, Sophie Drexler, Stephanie Gaste, Francois Marin
  • Patent number: 8997991
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: LTS Lohmann Therapie Systeme AG
    Inventors: Bodo Asmussen, Markus Krumme
  • Patent number: 8944247
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: LTS Lohmann Therapie Systeme AG
    Inventor: Ronald Hackbarth
  • Patent number: 8708149
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Berlin Packaging, LLC
    Inventors: Liam Hawry, Brett Niggel, Scott Jost
  • Patent number: 8689978
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Berlin Packaging, LLC
    Inventors: Nora Flood, Liam Hawry, Brett Niggel, Scott Jost
  • Patent number: 8662305
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Kiss Nail Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Siyong Sung
  • Patent number: 8528778
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: CSP Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean Pierre Giraud
  • Patent number: 8388905
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Nipro Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary T. Neel, Brent E. Modzelewski, George R. Rounds, Carlos Oti, Allan Javier Caban
  • Patent number: 8377697
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Myles, Cherie Bulala
  • Patent number: 8356711
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Inventors: Mauro Andres Canziani Hoffa, Jorge Francisco Aninat Solar
  • Patent number: 8245849
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Kiss Nail Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Siyong Sung
  • Patent number: 8236254
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Myles, Cherie Bulala
  • Patent number: 8220636
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Berry Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: W. Gordon Beecroft, Chad E. Rice
  • Patent number: 8146747
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Edge Medical Properties, LLC
    Inventors: Robert A. Luciano, Jr., Russell Bradford, Leslie Baker, Clay McElhany
  • Publication number: 20120048771
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: BAYER PHARMA AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Kathrin Reichardt, Sven Filler, Uwe Karla
  • Patent number: 8066957
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank A. Chan, Chris Wiegel
  • Patent number: 7987986
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Bayer Schering Pharma AG
    Inventor: Sabine Leifeld
  • Patent number: 7950546
    Abstract: 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 pos
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: CSP Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Giraud, Michel Zbirka
  • Patent number: 7866476
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Walgreen Co.
    Inventors: Sean McGonagle, Greg Pankow, Christina M. Marotta, Amy C. Biesenthal, William H. Valls, Zack Simmering
  • Patent number: 7661534
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Novartis, AG
    Inventors: Christian Saclier, Marco Ackermann, Richard Miles, Matthew Grey
  • Patent number: 7641050
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: NYCOMED GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Klatt, Klaus Hinderegger
  • Publication number: 20090321296
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Robert A. Luciano, JR., Russell Bradford, Leslie Baker, Clay McElhany
  • Patent number: 7631764
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: McNeil-PPC, Inc
    Inventors: Steven Ginsberg, Bradford S. Grant
  • Patent number: 7607541
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Inventors: Deborah Girgis, Victoria Lombardi
  • Patent number: 7604124
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Rexam Healthcare Packaging Inc.
    Inventor: John M. Shingle
  • Patent number: 7581642
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Anderson Packaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Curt Knutson, Ryen Sack, Ronald J. Seibert, Shawn P. Reilley
  • Patent number: 7571811
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Inventor: Azanaw Mulaw
  • Publication number: 20090139893
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: WALGREEN CO.
    Inventors: Sean McGonagle, Greg Pankow, Christina M. Marotta, Amy C. Biesenthal, William H. Valls, Zack Simmering
  • Patent number: 7537137
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: CSP Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Giraud
  • Patent number: 7472793
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Inventors: Karin Berghaeuser, Karl-Heinz Buechner, Bertram Fritzsch, Andreas Schuster, Tobias Schuster
  • Patent number: 7434692
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: McNeil-PPC, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Ginsberg, Bradford S. Grant
  • Publication number: 20080093254
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Deborah Girgis, Victoria Lombardi
  • Patent number: 7357255
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: McNeil-PPC, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Ginsberg, Bradford S. Grant
  • Publication number: 20070235368
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: ANDERSON PACKAGING, INC.
    Inventors: Curt Knutson, Ryen Sack, Ronald Seibert, Shawn Reilley
  • Patent number: 7213720
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: CSP Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Giraud
  • Patent number: 7188729
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: DeJonge Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: Stuart W. DeJonge
  • Patent number: 7128997
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Philip H. Harding, Louis C. Barinaga, John C. Greeven, Paul H. McClelland, Joseph W. Tsang, Makarand Gore
  • Patent number: 7074390
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Inventor: Carol L. MacKinnon
  • Patent number: 6708826
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Ginsberg, Bradford S. Grant
  • Patent number: 6527140
    Abstract: 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 means
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Audus Noble Limited
    Inventors: David Noble Thompson, Stephen William Bushby, Ian Tennick, Keith Stephenson