Pet-medicine-capsule wrapper apparatus and method
OwnerMary Elizabeth Goldberginventor
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Abstract
Methods and compositions for obscuring medicines formed as tablets, capsules, pills, and so forth may be presented in clean packaging, with built-in work space on a substrate, film layer. A flexible paste, gum, putty, or malleable and formable treat material may be folded without touching the actual treat composition on its outermost surface. A medicament set onto a location on a surface of the composition may then be folded inside by folding, molding, or otherwise manipulating the composition, thus forming a sealed morsel, leaving no residue (e.g., powder, scent, taste, etc.) of the medicament on the outer surface of the composition when administered to a pet.
Claims18
A method of administering a medicament to an animal, the method comprising:
- providing a wrapper formed as a morsel, edible by a pet and comprising a composition containing a foodstuff;
- providing a cover having an inside surface and an outside surface and characterized by a surface area effective to separate the morsel against contact by other morsels contained within a container and against any need for contact with hands of a user during removal and preparation with a medicament;
- selecting the medicament in accordance with a regimen for administering the medicament to an animal, in a dose corresponding to treatment of the animal by the medicament;
- extracting the morsel in the cover from the container;
- uncovering the morsel without touching the morsel nor residue thereof on the outside surface nor the inside surface;
- placing the medicament on the morsel;
- re-shaping the morsel by manual manipulation thereof within the cover and without directly contacting the morsel to embed the medicament completely within the composition;
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- administering the morsel containing the medicament to a pet.
A method of administering a medicament to an animal, the method comprising:
- selecting a wrapper as a morsel, edible by a pet as a foodstuff, malleable at ambient temperature, and having a wrapper surface area, the wrapper being secured in a cover having a cover surface area sufficient to completely enclose the wrapper and shield fingers of a user against contact with the wrapper during forming thereof about a medicament;
- selecting a medicament corresponding to treatment of the animal by the medicament;
- extracting the wrapper inside the cover from a container;
- exposing the morsel without exposing fingers of a user to it nor residue thereof on the cover;
- placing the medicament on the morsel;
- re-shaping the morsel by manual manipulation thereof exclusively by indirect contact through the cover in order to embed the medicament completely within the composition;
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- administering the morsel containing the medicament to a pet.
A method for administering a medicament to an animal, the method comprising:
- providing a cover of a size and material selected to remain substantially intact during manipulation of a morsel of edible material packaged therein, the morsel being formed of a composition sufficiently malleable at ambient temperatures to obscure from detection by an animal a dose of a medicament placed thereon, the dose thereafter being enclosed in the morsel by manual manipulation of the morsel, through the cover without direct contact between the edible material and the user, the cover being selectively closeable around the morsel to enclose the morsel and openable to expose the morsel without contact of hands of a user against the morsel nor contact by the medicament nor the hands of a user against that portion of the morsel constituting an outer surface thereof following the manipulation;
- packaging into a container a plurality of the morsels, each individually wrapped in a corresponding cover;
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- distributing the container for later opening and administration of the morsels to an animal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.