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.
Claims20
A method for medicating an animal, the method comprising:
- selecting a morsel of edible material, malleable by fingers of a hand by a user, the morsel enclosed in a cover, formed of a material and size remaining substantially intact during manipulation of the morsel to surround a medicament;
- selecting a medicament;
- opening the cover;
- and
- obscuring at least one of taste and smell of the medicament from detection by deforming the morsel about the medicament to enclose the medicament therein;
- wherein the deforming occurs in consequence of manual manipulation of the morsel, while covered by the cover, thereby eliminating direct contact between the user and the morsel at all times from the opening the cover to administering the morsel to an animal.
A method of medicating an animal, the method comprising:
- providing a wrapper formable as a morsel, having a composition edible by the animal;
- providing a cover as a sheet having an area effective to enclose the morsel against contact with fingers of a user;
- uncovering, by the user, the morsel without touching directly the morsel nor residue thereof;
- placing a medicament on the morsel;
- and
- embedding the medicament by deforming the morsel around it, by manual manipulation transferring pressure from the fingers to the morsel through the cover, exclusively.
A method of medicating an animal, the method comprising:
- selecting a wrapper as a morsel, edible, malleable by pressure applied by fingers, and completely enclosed in a cover having an area sufficient to shield the fingers entirely from contacting directly the morsel at any time;
- exposing the morsel without the morsel nor its residue contacting the fingers directly;
- and
- embedding a medicament completely within the morsel by re-shaping the morsel by the fingers applying pressure through the cover, exclusively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.