Tilting units
AssigneeSmith Kline & French Laboratories Limited
InventorGeoffrey D. Tovey
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Abstract
Orally administrable pharmaceutical dosage units having a shape such that its most stable position on a horizontal flat surface is tilted. The units may be tablets, capsules, cachets, wafers, lozenges or analogous confections and candies. For the dosage unit to tilt it has a main body which has projections on its surfaces capable of acting as fulcra. Preferably the dosage units are tablets which have dome or pyramidal shaped projections centrally located on its surfaces. The dosage units are prepared according to the standard procedures of the pharmaceutical art. In the case of tablets, the granulation is compressed employing the appropriately shaped punches and dies.
Claims1
An orally administrable pharmaceutical dosage unit which is more easily picked up because it rests in a tilted position on a horizontal flat surface, said unit having a shape comprising a right parallelipiped main body and having two equal larger faces and two projections which act as fulcra on which said unit can tilt, each of which projection is a dome-shaped stud and is loacted centrally on each of said larger faces and the shape of said unit is such that its most stable position on a horizontal flat surface is a tilted position.
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