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.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
An apparatus capable of resisting transmission of at least one of taste and smell, the apparatus comprising:
- a wrapper as a morsel, having a composition edible by a mammal and capable of being shaped by force applied to the morsel;
- a cover as a sheet having an area effective to enclose the morsel against contact with an outside environment, the cover being fabricated of a material and at a size capable of being opened, by a user, to uncover the morsel without direct contact between the user and the morsel;
- the wrapper, capable of receiving a medicament thereon and permanently deforming to obscure the medicament against detection by at least one of direct visibility, taste, and smell;
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- the cover, wherein the size and material thereof are selected to maintain structural integrity while supporting the deforming due to an application of force to the morsel by a bodily member of the user, while separating a bodily member of the user from the morsel at all times.
An apparatus, capable of reducing rejection of a medicament by an animal, comprising:
- a morsel of edible material, malleable by a user;
- a cover, formed of a material capable of remaining intact during a manipulation of the morsel to surround the medicament;
- the morsel, capable of obscuring at least one of sight, taste, and smell of the medicament by deforming to enclose the medicament therein in response to the manipulation;
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- the cover, wherein the size and shape thereof are selected to separate the user from direct contact with the morsel at all times.
A method of rendering a medicament acceptable by a subject when administered by a user to the subject, the method comprising:
- providing a wrapper made of constituents formulated to be edible by the subject and capable of being deformed by the user into a morsel presentable to the subject;
- providing packaging comprising a cover, configured to have a sheet-like aspect ratio of a thickness thereof to dimensions defining an area thereof, flexible in the direction of the thickness and formed of a material impervious to the constituents;
- forming the cover, wherein the area is sized to be capable of enclosing the wrapper, opening to expose the wrapper, sufficiently strong to maintain structural integrity thereof while enclosing the medicament therein during deformation of the wrapper through the cover by the user, and sufficiently large to separate the user from the wrapper and morsel during the exposing, the deformation, and the administering to the subject.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.