Abstract: A system of the present invention includes a tandem package and an apparatus and method for making the same. The tandem package includes a strip of film material having a plurality of medicament containing compartments. To prevent ripping or exposure of the medicament in an adjacent compartment upon opening of an individual segment of the package, each compartment is separated by a dividing member. In addition, to facilitate opening of the each segment while providing increased resistance to opening by children, each segment includes a tear notch in at least one corner of the segment perpendicular to a fold line. Thus to open the segment to expose the medicament, the corner my be folded along the fold line and torn at tear notch, with the dividing member limiting tearing of the film.

Abstract: There is disclosed a child resistant blister package comprising a conventional blister package having cavities containing unit doses of medication. The blister package is adapted to receive a locking member which is slidably secured to the blister package to effectively prevent children from accessing the medication therein and yet is readily, slidably removed from the blister package by an adult to access medication therefrom.

Abstract: There is provided an ice tray that includes a body and a laminated cover that has a plastic coat for securing together the body and the cover. The body includes a plurality of individual cavities for receiving liquid therein. Each wall of each cavity has an upper edge that forms a lip. The cover is sealed along each lip of each cavity to provide a liquid tight seal for each cavity. The body and cover are each, preferably, formed of a single sheet of material. The body is made of pure polyvinyl chloride plastic, and the cover is made of a laminate of polyester and polyamide with adhesive therebetween and the plastic coat on the side of the polyester opposite the adhesive.

Abstract: A dispenser for medical preparations comprises a rectangular box (1) which releasably accommodates an insert (3) for containing a series of countersunk compartments (4) for receiving the medical preparations, the box having a top cover with slidable shutters (5) adapted to be opened at least partially to permit access to the contents of the respective compartments, a protective lid (7, 7") being removably arranged the top of the insert and covering the compartments and being openable to permit the abovementioned access. The lid (7; 7") can be peeled off or slidably removed from the insert (2) and has a grip portion (10; 10") that can be seized externally of one side of the box permit peeling off or sliding of the lid respectively through an opening or a slot (6; 6") provided in said box side.

Abstract: A dispenser for medical preparations includes a rectangular box having a bottom and a top portion. The top portion has a plurality of apertures, each aperture covered by a lid that is slidable in grooves in the top portion so that the lid is extractable in one direction. An insert having several rows of compartments for medical preparations is adapted to be inserted in the box so that each row is positioned under an aperture for access to the compartments through the corresponding overlying aperture. A cover which closes an opening in a side of the box is removable to allow the insertion and removal of the insert through the opening. A locking rod locks the lids in a position closing the apertures, and unlocks all of the lids at the same time. The cover is also locked in a closing position by the locking rod and is removable only upon actuation of the locking rod for unlocking the lids.

Abstract: There is provided an improved exchangeable medicament dosing system and method which includes a reuseable integral patient dispensing frame which supports a plurality of reuseable cartridges. Replaceable blister packages having a plurality of individually sealed spaced pockets are slidably inserted into the reuseable cartridge and aligned with a predetermined number of dispensing openings therewithin. The blister packages are specifically designed to mechanically interact with the cartridge as they are slidably inserted to properly align the spaced pockets with corresponding dispensing openings of the cartridge. One or more cartridges are releasably locked at least partially within the dispensing frame, and a plurality of dispensing frames can be placed in a frame container for convenient exchange and use with medication carts.

Abstract: A pill sample illustrator has a two rectangular, transparent plastic sheets that come together to enclose pill samples and a medical chart. These sheets provide a single row of individual pill sample receiving spaces for the pill samples along one side of the illustrator and a larger adjacent space for the medical chart. The medical chart contains bands extending from the pill sample receiving spaces to the opposite side of the illustrator. Each band contains indicia for relating to a pill sample in a corresponding one of the pill receiving spaces. The pill sample illustrator also forms a lid for a box that contains supplies of the pills that are to be taken by a patient.

Abstract: A package includes a box, made of card-board, in which a support element, also made of card-board, is inserted. This U-shaped element has fixed wings, with coaxial holes, inside which products, e.g. vials are inserted. The edge of each hole has radial segments which engage the neck of the products and prevent them from slippage. The element of support can be provided with flaps with appendixes having heads which rest against the bottom and the cover of the box; in this way the bottom and the the neck are effectively protected.

Abstract: A package assembly formed from two detachably connectable package modules is provided for separately packaging a plurality of articles, such as machine tool cutting inserts. Each package module is substantially structurally identical to the other module, and comprises a tray having a top portion, a bottom wall, side walls, and a plurality of spaced-apart interior walls that define a plurality of article-holding chambers, a transparent lid slidably mounted on the top portion of the tray for retaining, displaying, and sequentially dispensing articles disposed in the article-holding chamber of the tray. Each tray further comprises a cantilevered lip on the exterior of the tray for releasably interconnecting the side walls of the trays of two different package modules such that the bottom wall of the tray of one module and the transparent lid of the other module face the same direction. A label concerning the nature of the articles may be applied to the bottom wall of the tray or to the lid of each module.

Abstract: The present invention includes a package assembly which comprises a blister package and a surrounding frame having a child resistant feature. The blister package includes a blister sheet having blisters that form recesses adapted for receiving medications and a lidding sheet overlying the face of the blister sheet for enclosing medications in the blister recesses. The surrounding frame is designed for receiving and supporting the blister package and is made up of first and second panels. The apertures in each panel are correspondingly arranged so as to overlap in an opposing face-to-face relation. The apertures in the second panel are configured to partially obstruct the corresponding aperture in the first panel. The partial obstruction thereby forming a protective device to impede unwanted removal of medication from the blister package in a child resistant fashion.

Abstract: An improved method and apparatus designed to facilitate the dispensing and inventory control of medications is provided, preferably in the form of a book (16) containing a plurality of transparent bags (10-14). Each of the bags (10-14) holds one or more multiple-dosage cards (32-36) including a plurlaity of transparent, frangible, single dosage form-holding compartments (38). Each bag is moreover provided with medication and dosage form information (25), preferably along a side marginal edge thereof. A record sheet (52) is also provided which includes reference markings (54) for each of the medications and dosage forms contained within a respective bag (10-14), along with spaces (56) for noting periodic usage of each dosage form of each different medication.

Abstract: There is provided an improved exchangeable medicament dosing system and method which includes a reuseable integral patient dispensing frame which supports a plurality of reuseable cartridges. Replaceable blister packages having a plurality of individually sealed spaced pockets are slidably inserted into the reuseable cartridge and aligned with a predetermined number of dispensing openings therewithin. The blister packages are specifically designed to mechanically interact with the cartridge as they are slidably inserted to properly align the spaced pockets with corresponding dispensing openings of the cartridge. One or more cartridges are releasably locked at least partially within the dispensing frame, and a plurality of dispensing frames can be placed in a frame container for convenient exchange and use with medication carts.

Abstract: The present invention is a device for inhibiting removal of a first article from a first blister-type container having at least one blister. The device includes a first member or second blister-type container positioned facing the first blister-type container with at least one opening in the second container in registry with the blister when the second container is in the first position. The first container likewise may include an opening in registry with a second blister of the second container when the second container is in the first position. The openings in the first and second containers are sized to permit passage of the respective articles therethrough. When the second container is in the second position, the second container is positioned to inhibit removal of a first article from the first container and the first container is positioned to inhibit removal of a second article from the second container.

Abstract: A disposable device for the administration of powdered inhalation medicament is provided which comprises a rigid medicament reservoir (4) holding a unit dose of medicament (10) and having air inlet means (5,7) and medicament outlet means (8); and closure means (3) which are removable in use; wherein the medicament (10) held in the reservoir (4) is in loose powder form.

Abstract: A child resistant unit dose package for medications comprises a container member having concealed locking means, a plurality of cavities along its longitudinal axis for holding medication, each cavity closed with a peel-off seal, and a cover for the container member that requires two operations to open. In another embodiment, a separate drug container is disclosed which does not include a cover.

Abstract: The present invention is a device for inhibiting removal of an article from a blister-type container having at least one blister. The device includes a housing surrounding at least a portion of the container sized to permit movement of the container between first and second positions. The housing has a base positioned facing the blister-type container with at least one base opening in registry with the blister when the container is in the first position. The base opening is sized to permit passage of the article therethrough. The device also includes a biasing member for biasing the container toward the second position. When the container is in the second position, the base of the housing is positioned to inhibit removal of the article from the container.

Abstract: There is disclosed a child resistant blister package comprising a conventional blister package having cavities containing unit doses of medication. The blister package is adapted to receive a locking member which is slidably secured to the blister package to effectively prevent children from accessing the medication therein and yet is readily, slidably removed from the blister package by an adult to access medication therefrom.

Abstract: This patent discloses reusable, plastic medication dispensing containers for dispensing medication from a blister pack. The container includes a top, bottom, and retaining frame that are molded from a one-piece plastic and hingeably connected one to the other.

Abstract: This patent discloses medication dispensing packages that are provided with a plurality of signal tabs to signal when the medication is to be dispensed.

Abstract: A child resistant unit dose package for medications comprises a container member having concealed locking means, a plurality of cavities along its longitudinal axis for holding medication, each cavity closed with a peel-off seal, and a cover for the container member that requires two operations to open.

Abstract: A powder inhaler device not requiring a propellant is disclosed which comprises a unit dose package and delivery system which is breath actuated and permits a patient to inhale through the mouth a medication in powder form for administration to the bronchia and lungs. The powder dose is contained in a compartment of the device which is sealed off from the environment by a peel-off piece of lidding material. The compartment has two apertures: one over which the mouth of the patient is placed to receive the powder medication by inhalation; and the other which permits ingress of air to aerosolize the powder medication.

Abstract: A solid medicament dispensing device having a cover and tray to provide a container for a cartridge for the solid medicament. The cover has hinged panel members and the tray an opening in the floor. When the hinged panel members are moved against the cartridge, it forces the medicament out of the cartridge and through the tray opening. The dispensing device is particularly suited for dispensing large dosages of capsules.

Abstract: The present invention includes a package assembly for dispensing pharmaceutical medications, and a method of manufacturing the same. The package assembly comprises a blister sheet having blister recesses and substantially planar shoulder portions located between the recesses and coated with a cohesive composition, and a lidding sheet having one surface entirely coated with a cohesive composition having affinity for the cohesive that is coated on the shoulder portions of the blister sheet, but having no affinity for pharmaceutical medications positioned in the blister recesses. A relatively stiff plastic frame having top and bottom panels is positioned on opposite sides of the blister sheet and lidding sheet in a sandwich relationship, thereby giving support to the entire package assembly. The present invention, therefore, allows for customized prescription packaging to be economically handled by a patient's pharmacist.

Abstract: A package providing for controlled and contamination-free dispensing of medication in the form of pills or capsules. The package includes a reusable carrier having multiple, individual pill cavities that lock and seal each pill pocket that is provided by a disposable insert. The carrier has a unique arrangement for automatically sealing the insert around each pill pocket.

Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing a series of different pills over a prescribed period. The dispenser is provided with an indicator that is adjustable to preset the start of the pill regimen on whatever day desired. The pill package and dispenser are constructed and arranged so that after the indicator has been preset the pill package can be fixedly positioned in the dispenser with the first pill of the regimen in position to be taken by the user on the first preselected day.

Abstract: A device for holding and dispensing pills which enables the dispensing of pills in successive order. Pills are mounted in a compact in a single row in the desired successive order and a pill ejector is arranged for incremental movement in one direction along the compact. When the pill ejector is adjacent to a pill, a bendable member is displaced to push the pill out of a blister type package and through an opening in the rear of the compact.

Abstract: There is provided an ice tray and ice cubes formed therein in which the ice cubes contain embossments. The ice cube tray includes a base having a plurality of cavities. Each cavity has a bottom and a plurality of said walls and preferably the bottom has a surface in the cavity which surface has a protuberance. The ice tray also includes a cover secured to the base. Once a formed ice cube is removed from a cavity, the cavity can not be used to form a new ice cube.

Abstract: A combination medication mold and dispenser. The medication is poured into a multicompartment tray and solidifies into troches. The tray is made of a flexible plastic which can be bent to release the troches individually. The tray has a cover attached with a flexible hinge to protect the troches after preparation. The medication can be prepared and dispensed to the patient in the same container. The covered tray can be held in a sleeve to further protect the medication and hold the cover in place.

Abstract: A dispenser for medical preparations in tablet form. The dispenser has a body for housing an insert having compartments arranged in rows, one row for each day of the week and four compartments in each row, one compartment for a specific time of the day and housing one intake of tablets. Over each row is a recess and in each recess is arranged a slidable cover for covering and uncovering the compartments. The dispenser comprises a novel removable cap of elastic material that snaps in an opening formed in a transverse side of the body. When the cap is removed the insert can be extracted and refilled with new tablets.

Abstract: A lid structure is formed of conjoined upper and lower sheets of material. One of the sheets has a receptacle formed therein which receives an elastomeric pad. The portion of the conjoined first and second sheets form a sealing flange which completely surrounds the periphery of the receptacle and which provides a surface whereby the lid may be secured to a container.

Abstract: A tablet container having a cover and sliding tray is used for dispensing birth control tablets for either a twenty-one-day or twenty-eight-day cycle. Normally, the tray does not slide completely out of the cover and is stabilized with respect thereto when open. The case resembles a cosmetic compact and is reuseable in that once birth control tablets contained in a blister pack are used up, a new blister pack may easily be inserted.

Abstract: A package including a base portion formed of a semi-rigid material so as to be self-supporting. The base portion has a plurality of receptacles, each of which is individually separably joined to all adjacent receptacles by a connecting rim flange. The receptacles are disposed in a plurality of columns and rows in the base portion and the receptacles each have an opening defined by the connecting rim flange and extend from the connecting rim flange on one side thereof. The package also includes a cover portion joined to the base portion for entirely covering the receptacle openings including a plurality of cover segments disposed in a plurality of columns and rows. The cover segments each cooperate with the connecting rim flange of one of the receptacles and each are individually separably joined to all adjacent cover segments.

Abstract: A system and apparatus for containing and dispensing medications in a prescribed manner, and for reducing the possibility of incorrect dosages being taken and/or medication being taken at the wrong time of the day. A tray contains plural rows and columns of cavities, and each cavity is adapted to contain medication therein. The cavities include structure dividing them into two parts. A first part is open to the user to enable the user to place medication therein and to remove medication therefrom. A second part is closed off from direct access by the user in semi-permanent fashion by a transparent enclosure and is used to contain in a preferred embodiment, an exemplification of a appropriate dosage of medication to be taken. For example, if five green pills are to be taken, the enclosed portion will contain five green pills viewable through the transparent enclosure. The dose example of medication contained therein is the dose amount and type medication to be placed in each open cavity structure each day.

Abstract: A reminder device comprising a support on which are located at least two different medicinal substances each of said drugs being in single dose form and an instruction bearing portion on said support adjacent each dose to receive instructions for the use thereof.

Abstract: A portable pill storage and dispensing device adapted to record the time one or more pills are dispensed on demand or emits a time alarm as a reminder which events are recorded for future interrogation and where a novel pill-retaining cavity closure is selectively activated to disperse one or more pills. The device consists of a keyboard assembly which also stores and dispenses the pills and an electronic assembly which records the data regarding key closures whenever a pill is dispensed.

Abstract: A package for the application of a fumigant material includes a first sheet having a plurality of recesses for receiving a fumigant in pellet or tablet form in each recess and a second sheet one side of which is coated with an adhesive which is applied over the openings and surrounding surface area of the first sheet and adhered thereto by heat and pressure; the material of the sheet is a spun bonded polyester which permits ingress of moisture containing atmosphere. The release of the toxic gas produced by the moisture induced decomposition of the pellets takes place at a much higher effective rate than has been the case with previous packages for similar material.

Abstract: A unit portion pack is made from two webs, at least one of which is a laminate (2) having layer (4) of tear resistant material, such as polyester film, and a layer (6) of rupturable material, such as aluminum foil. The two webs (2, 26) are bonded together by way of heat seals, (38, 40) to define a plurality of cavity-forming regions (34) in each of which a single pill (36) or other solid product item is received. A longitudinally extending score or slit line (10) extends along each longitudinally arranged row of regions (34) inwardly of the peripheries of the regions. The pill (36) is released by manipulating the pack such that the score or slitline is located on or outboard of the periphery of the pill by movement of the latter. The area of the cavity-forming region on the other side of the score or slit line to the pill is then squeezed to fracture the rupturable material at the score or slit line. This forms a dispensing opening through which the pill may be pushed.

Abstract: A pill container having a body with a cavity for receiving a pill formed therein, a cover slidably arranged on the body to cover the cavity being retained in cavity covering position by the mating arrangement of the body and cover, the cover being further arranged to be moved by engagement of the cover with the teeth of a user, and movement of the body inwardly of such user's mouth to position the cavity therewithin permitting a pill to drop from the cavity, into the user's mouth as the pill will provide the necessary reaction sought.

Abstract: A container in the form of a packaging having at least one supporting or receptacle part such as for medicaments or the like, which if necessary or desired are contained in a separate medicament vessel and a lid which is slidable on guiding strips on the receptacle part. The slidable engagement of the lid and receptacle is effected by longitudinal edge portions on the lid or receptacle engaging in grooves on the other part. At opposite ends of the container, flaps made at least in part of flexible or reversible material are provided and, when the container is closed serve as stops which restrict relative movement between the lid and the receptacle. The flaps may be bendable, or removable or contain projections which may engage in recesses when the container is closed.

Abstract: A child-resistant package includes a sealed blister positioned between opposed front and back paperboard sheets that are adhered to each other. The front paperboard sheet includes openings through which the blisters project, and the back paperboard sheet includes a tear strip overlying the blister and being movable in a linear direction to permit its separation from surrounding regions of the back sheet to thereby expose a rupturable backing strip of the sealed blister, there being no other blisters linearly aligned with the linear direction in which the tear strip is movable.

Abstract: A segmented multi-product package assembly contains articles such as hypodermic syringe tip caps. The package assembly includes a tray which contains a plurality of receptacles having open ends associated with an upper surface of the tray. These receptacles are arranged so that sealing areas on the upper surface lie between adjacent open ends. A cover is removably sealed to the sealing areas and covers the receptacles. The cover is partially removable from the tray to expose a selectable number of articles while the unused articles remain protected in sealed receptacles.

Abstract: A system for containing and dispensing flowable substances includes a plurality of discrete containers associated by a common web; each container has a respective openable closure sealing the contents in; special provisions of the invention provide for opening by ripping tab in a manner promoting spreading of the contents, or by a plug, affording choice different size openings either predeterminable or enlargeable as required, depending on embodiment; the containers can be left in association after use or can be separated prior to or during use, as desired; compact carrying provision is disclosed along with an instant visual inventory aspect.

Abstract: A reclosable blister card package is provided, having an insert which rotates inside the blister cavity to present product-holding compartments to the dispensing opening. The insert and blister are cooperatively sized and configured for smooth and efficient rotation of the insert within the blister cavity. Opening features provide the dispensing opening, and reclosure features provide for continuing containment and protection of the unused portion of the product.

Abstract: A blister package of the push-through type comprises a thermoformed blister portion made of a laminate sealed to a foil sheet. One of the laminae, prior to thermoforming, has been fluid compression rolled from a sheet to about one third of its original thickness affording a degree of orientation enhancing its moisture barrier properties, clarity, and strength in the thermoformed state.

Abstract: An extender and header card for a medicinal dispensing device and a fixture base converted for filling the same. The device includes a plurality of article-holding units, each having flanges detachably connected along predetermined weakened lines and a chamber depending from each flange. A cover sheet is secured over the chambers and includes perforated lines corresponding to the weakened flange lines to enable each unit to be separated from the other unit. The header card includes a panel having a front face for receipt of prescription indicia thereron, a transverse weakened line extending along a lower edge and a plurality of longitudinal weakened lines extending parallel to one another from the edge of the transverse line to form a plurality of separable sections. Adhesive is provided along the lower edge of the card for securing the card to the dispensing device.

Abstract: A tray for holding IC packages including cylindrical cases having preformed leads flared radially outward from the bottom thereof with flat portions of the free ends of leads being in a common plane. The tray comprises a top plate having a plurality of funnel shaped openings in it, a rim around the perimeter of the plate, and a flat bottom. Each opening has a cylindrical bottom portion for receiving a case with leads thereon being located in the flared upper portion of the opening and below the surface of the plate. The top and bottom edges of trays are dimensioned so that the top of a first tray nests inside the bottom of a second tray. By merely turning these nested trays over, packages in openings in the first tray sit with the flat portions of leads on the bottom of the second tray. The rim limits transverse movement of packages set on the plate when the tray is shaken to cause them to fall into associated openings.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical container capable of symbolically indicating a prescription dose and time requirements. The container and symbolic message adapted to be physically sensed by touch, are particularly suited for circumstances where a patient may not read English, have poor vision, or be blind.

Abstract: A tablet containing compacted camphor powder is sealed in a capsule.

Abstract: A box for ampoules has a front wall with a top edge well below the top edge of the rear wall so as to define (with side walls) an opening closed by a cover extending from the rear wall and overlapping the front wall to which it is secured by an adhesive edge. Lines of perforations across the overlapping portion define a web to be torn off when access is to be had to the ampoules. This leaves the remaining part of the cover with a tongue which, when the box is again to be closed, is tucked into a pocket between the front wall and a support for the ampoules which also strengthens the front wall. The support includes corrugated cardboard providing compartments for the ampoules. The tongue and top edge of the front wall are shaped to interlock.

Abstract: A box for ampoules has a front wall with a top edge well below the top edge of the rear wall so as to define (with side walls) an opening closed by a cover extending from the rear wall and overlapping the front wall to which it is secured by an adhesive edge. Lines of perforations across the overlapping portion define a web to be torn off when access is to be had to the ampoules. This leaves the remaining part of the cover with a tongue which, when the box is again to be closed, is tucked into a pocket between the front wall and a support for the ampoules which also strengthens the front wall. The support includes corrugated cardboard providing compartments for the ampoules. The tongue and top edge of the front wall are shaped to interlock.