GB2389355A - Dispensing pack having compartments - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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- A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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Abstract
A dispensing pack includes a plurality of compartments (10), each for the reception of one or a number of articles, typically articles of medication such as pills, tablets, capsules or the like, and the compartments (10) being allocated a particular time or time interval during which the articles in that compartment (10) are to be removed. Certain compartments (10') are of differing dimensions, such as larger, so as to allow those compartments (10') to receive more articles and these compartments (10') are positioned for use at times when more articles are expected to be required to be consumed. The pack preferably comprises a tray (4) with the compartments (10) arranged in rows and/or columns and closed by a sealing layer. The tray (4) may comprise a frame (6) having windows (8) for receiving the compartments (10).
Description
1 2389355
Dispensing Pack This invention relates to a dispensing pack, typically, although not necessarily exclusively, of the type in which medication can be held and from which the medication can be taken by consumers at intervals of time.
Although the following description refers almost exclusively to
the use of a dispensing pack for the dispensing of medication in the form of pills, capsules or tablets, it will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that the present invention can be used to dispense one or more articles of any type, size or shape and is not necessarily limited to dispensing medication or drugs only.
It is well known to provide medication, such as pills, tablets or capsules, in a dispensing pack in order to allow individual doses of the medication to be dispensed therefrom as and when required. One example of a known dispensing pack, typically used by patients having complicated drugs regimens, includes a tray portion in which a plurality of compartments are provided.
A pill, tablet or capsule is typically located in each compartment and a sealing portion is located with the tray portion to sealingly cover each compartment. Each compartment is associated with a particular time period, such as a day of the week and/or a time of day, the time period typically being printed on the tray portion and/or sealing portion on or adjacent each compartment.
A user or patient can thus clearly determine which dose of medication is required to be taken at a particular time and whether a required dose has been taken for the particular time period. The compartments of the tray portion are typically formed from flexible plastics material and, in order to gain access to the ......
mecllcatlon contained in a compartment, a user or patient IS
required to apply a depressive force to the base of the compartment in a direction towards the sealing portion. The sealing portion either has frangible portions thereon or is sufficiently weak such that movement of the medication in the compartment against the sealing portion causes the sealing portion to break and release the contents of the compartment therefrom. Alternatively, the sealing portion can be broken directly arid the medication extracted froin the curnpartllleilt.
The dispensing pack can be provided with a cover, typically formed from board material which is attached to the tray portion and is printed with details relating to the patient, the medication, instructions for taking the medication and/or the like. The cover portion also protects the sealing portion from accidental breakage.
A problem with conventional dispensing pack arrangements of the type described above is that the doses of medication typically varies from patient to patient, and also from time to time but the dimensions of the compartments provided in the tray portion are generally uniform. As such, the pharmacist filling the dispensing pack often encounter difficulties in locating the required dosage of medication into a compartment associated with a particular time period. In addition, over filling of a compartment may result in difficulties in applying the sealing portion or may cause damage to the sealing portion when applied. It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a dispensing pack which overcomes the abovementioned problems and which allows different shapes, sizes and/or numbers of articles to be located therein.
According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a dispensing pack for the dispensing of one or more
articles therefrom, said dispensing pack including a tray portion having a plurality of compartments with openings for the selective location of said one or more articles, said openings normally closed to enclose the articles therein and wherein at least one of said compartments is provided with a different dimension compared to the other compartments of said tray portion. In one embodiment the at least one compartment has substantially larger dimensions than the other compartments of the tray portion.
Preferably two or more articles are provided in the compartment(s) having different dimensions to the one or more other compartments of the tray portion.
In one embodiment the compartments of the tray portion are arranged in rows and/or columns, and at least one compartment having different dimensions is provided per row and/or per column of the tray portion. If required, a plurality of compartments can be provided per row and/or column if desired. Preferably the one or more articles include one or more pills, tablets and/or capsules of medication or drugs.
In one embodiment, the different dimension of the at least one compartment amounts to the said compartment being larger. In an alternative embodiment the different dimensions of the at least one compartment amounts to the said compartment being of a different shape than the other compartments.
The dispensing pack, in one embodiment, is provided to allow a metered dosage of medication to be taken at particular times,
such as at certain times of day or on particular days of the week.
Thus, each compartment is typically associated with a particular time or time period to allow a user to easily monitor which dose is required to be taken at said time and to remind and typically provide a visual indication of whether the user has taken the dose or not at said time.
Piefeiably I'll Millie period for each colIlpartIIleIlc is printed or the sealing portion and/or a part of tray portion associated with or adjacent to each compartment.
The one or more compartments having different dimensions are typically provided at the start of a plurality of compartments associated with a certain time period. Thus, for example, if a plurality of compartments are associated with medication to be taken during two or more time periods in a particular day, the compartment having different dimensions is preferably provided as the first compartment, to accommodate the dose of medication to be taken that day, such as for example a morning dose. It is often found that the morning dose of medication is the largest dose of medication required to be taken by a patient in any particular day's drug regimen. Thus the compartment or compartments associated with a morning dose are larger or of a different shape to the compartments of, for example, an evening dose. The shape of the compartments can be formed to be substantially complementary to the shape of an article or articles located therein. For example, the morning dose compartment can be rectangular whereas the evening dose compartment can be square and/or similar.
Thus the present invention has the advantage that a dispensing pack is provided with similar overall dimensions to standard
dispensing packs but the compartments provided therein have different shapes and/or sizes to allow different sizes, shapes or dosages of medication to be contained therein In one embodiment the tray portion can be in the form of a box with a plurality of compartments defined therein or the tray portion could be located in a box.
An embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying figures, wherein: Figure 1 is a plan view of a dispensing pack according to the present invention; Figure 2 is a perspective view of a dispensing pack according to one embodiment of the present invention; Figure 3 is an enlarged side view of a compartment according to an embodiment of the present invention; and Figures 4- 7 illustrate further examples of dispensing packs according to the present invention.
Referring to the figures, there is illustrated a dispensing pack 2 for providing measured dosages of medication to a user.
The dispensing pack 2 includes a tray portion 4 having a frame 6 in which a plurality of windows 8 are defined and a plurality of compartments 10 which are located in said windows, such that a base 12 and side walls 14 of each compartment protrudes through a window in the frame 6 and an upper edge or rim 16 of the compartment defining the open end 18 of the compartment engages with the frame edges 20 defining the windows 8.
The blister pack 2 in this example holds medication for a seven day period Monday to Sunday and the compartments 10 are arranged in a series of rows 22 and columns 24; each row 22 representing a day of the week, and each column 24 representing one of four time periods in a day in which medication is required to be taken. The dispensing pack therefore is provided with 28 compartments in total in this example. The days of the week 26 aIld tile four iiIIlU periods 28 are primed at the s raft of each row and column respectively.
In use, a pharmacist or other similar medically qualified personnel, inserts the required dosage of medication in terms of pills, capsules and the like into each compartment associated with the relevant day and time period as appropriate. The largest dosage of medication to be taken by a patient in any particular time period is often the morning time period. As such, in accordance with the present invention, compartments 10' associated with the morning time period column have larger dimensions and are of a different shape than the compartments 10" associated with the other time periods. Two or more doses of different medication are typically to be provided in these larger sized compartments 10', such as three pills or a capsule and a tablet etc. compared to a single dose typically provided in the smaller sized compartments 10". The provision of the larger compartments in the "morning" medication column allows greater capacity for the medication and as a result prevents over filling of the compartments 10' whilst allowing more medication to be contained therein.
Once the required medication is located in the compartments, the tray portion is typically located on a suitable surface which supports the tray and compartments, such as on a tray template, a sealing portion 29 is located over the compartments as shown in Figure 3 and pressure is applied thereto to seal the sealing
portion to at least the edges 20 of the tray defining the compartment openings 18. The sealing portion is typically in the form of sheet material which is capable of sealingly adhering to the tray portion. Pressure is typically applied to the sealing material using a roller. Alternatively, a heat sealing process can be undertaken to seal the sealing portion to the tray portion.
As an alrernaci-ve, or in additiorl, LO the sealing of the compartments using a sealing layer with adhesive, a mechanical anchoring means can be provided with ensures that the sealing layer is retained in position, thus closing the compartments with the medication retained therein. This is of particular advantage in the centre of the pack to prevent separation between components of the pack which could allow the articles to fall out of the compartments. The mechanical location means, such as a plastic rivet therefore allows the components to be held together even though they may not be adhered at that location.
The pack of the present invention, in one example, is provided in a "book" design, with the tray portion having at least one or more portions movable relative thereto. For example, in the embodiment shown in figure 2, the tray portion 4 is provided with a cover 30 made from board material which is hingedly connected along fold line 32 to the tray portion. The board material can be provided with printed information thereon relating to any or any combination of the patient's details, medication details, the pharmacy details, instruction details and/or the like.
The cover acts to protect the sealing portion 29 as shown in Figure 3 from accidental breakage and can be integrally formed with the tray portion or frame or can be attached thereto by staples, adhesive, tape and/or the like. It can also be attached at any required position on the pack.
Typically the compartments of the tray portion are made from a substantially flexible plastics material. In order for a patient to access the medication they typically depress the base 12 of a particular compartment, thereby moving the medication contained in the compartment towards and breaking through the sealing portion 29 to dispense the medication therefrom. The compartments can also be formed from transparent plastics material so that a user of the pack can clearly see whether medication is contained therein.
The pack is tamper evident as if the sealing portion is provided it can clearly be seen when a compartment is empty and/or when the sealing portion has been perforated or broken. The pack is also typically disposable and the frame and compartments can he integrally formed or can be separately joined together.
Referring to figure 4, there is illustrated a further example of a pack 102 showing a different possible design to that of figure 1, in which the compartments 110' for the morning dose represented by column 124 are relatively larger than the remaining compartments 110" in the row for Monday 122', then in Figure 1 and this is repeated for each of the rows 122.
Referring to figures 5 and 7, there is illustrated yet further examples of dispensing packs 202, 200 respectively in which both the morning dose compartments 204 and the bedtime dose compartments 206 have larger dimensions than the midday and evening compartments 208 and are rectangular rather than substantially square. This is because it is often found that the morning and bedtime doses of medication can be larger than the midday and evening doses.
In addition, in figure 5, there is provided a plurality of smaller dimensioned compartments 210 arranged on a separate section of the pack. These compartments can include medication which can be taken when required rather than to be taken at pre-
determined time periods For example, the smaller compartments 210 can include pain killers and typically a single pain killer is provided per compartment. Thus, the dispensing pack in figure 5 includes coIIlpariIrleIlts of three different sizes and/or shapes.
Referring lo figure 6, there is illustrated a further dispensing pack 302 which can be used alone or in combination with a pack described in any other example herein. The pack 302 has a flap 304 provided thereon which allows the pack to be attached to another pack, such as by adhesion, staples and/or other mechanical attachment means. A further panel 305 can be provided to allow the pack 302 to be folded within the "book" arrangement of the other dispensing pack. The compartments 306 of further blister pack 302 can have different dimensions to the other blister pack, can have the same dimensions as the other blister pack, can include one or more compartments of different sizes and/or shapes and/or the like.
Reference to compartments having different dimensions or shapes in this application can include compartments having different lengths, widths, depths, cross sectional areas, volumes and/or similar.
Thus the present invention provides a simple and inexpensive means of holding different dosages of medication or different sizes, shapes and/or numbers of articles without over filling of the compartments. In practice it is believed that a pharmacist who is to fill the packs will have a range of said pack design tray styles available to them in stock and, upon receiving a
prescription, will select a tray style which includes the most ... appropriate compartment configuration.
In one embodiment, if a sealing layer applied to the tray is required to be broken to remove the medication from the compartment, the sealing layer may simply be broken by the force of the medication in the compartment being pressed against one same or, alternatively, the sealing layer leeway include weakened sections, the same located to suit a range of tray compartment configurations.
Furthermore, by the suitable sizing of compartments to be bigger and/or smaller for particular times, so there is provided the possibility to provide more compartments for a longer time period in a single pack and for the same overall size when compared to the conventional, single compartment size and shape dispensing packs.
Claims (14)
1. A dispensing pack for the dispensing of one or more medication articles therefrom, said dispensing pack including a tray portion having a plurality of compartments with openings for the selective location of said one or more articles, said openings normally closed to enclose the articles therein and werei at least olle of said comparilerls is provided with a different dimension compared to the other compartments of said tray portion.
2. A dispensing pack according to claim 1 wherein the said at least one compartment has substantially larger dimensions than the other compartments of the tray portion.
3. A dispensing pack according to claim 1 wherein two or more articles are provided in the said at least one compartment.
4. A dispensing pack according to claim 1 wherein the compartments of the tray portion are arranged in rows and columns and at least one compartment having different dimensions is provided per row and/or per column of the tray portion.
5. A dispensing pack according to claim 4 wherein at least one column or row of compartments has different dimensions than those in the other rows or columns.
6. A dispensing pack according to any of the preceding claims wherein the one or more articles include one or more pills, tablets and/or capsules of medication or drugs.
7. A dispensing pack according tO claim 1 wherein the dispensing pack is provided to allow metered dosage of medication to be taken at particular times.
8. A dispensing pack according to claim 7 wherein each compartment is associated with a particular time or time period to allow a user to monitor which dose is required to be taken at . 5 d1O ilIlle.
9. A dispensing pack according to claim 1 wherein the compartments are closed by the application of a sealing layer thereto.
10 A dispensing pack according to claim 9 wherein the time period attributed to each compartment is printed on the sealing layer and/or a part of the tray portion associated with or adjacent to each compartment.
11. A dispensing pack according to claim wherein the one or more compartments having different dimensions are allocated against a time of day when more medication is expected to be consumed.
12. A dispensing pack according to claim 1 wherein the one or more components with different dimensions are of larger size to accommodate more medication than the others.
13. A dispensing pack according to claim 1 wherein the shape of the compartments is substantially complimentary to the shape of the article or articles tO be located therein.
14. A dispensing pack as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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| GB0320797A Expired - Fee Related GB2389355B (en) | 2003-06-28 | 2003-09-05 | Dispensing pack |
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| GB2441759A (en) * | 2006-09-15 | 2008-03-19 | Alpa Shantilal Pabari | Blister pack with cover portion |
| EP1985550A1 (en) * | 2007-04-27 | 2008-10-29 | UHLMANN PAC-SYSTEME GmbH & Co. KG | Packaging unit for medicines and method for its manufacture |
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