Packaging for health care products
OwnerLaura M. Burdickinventor
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Abstract
An improved packaging for health care products such as self-administrable health tests which are designed to be used separate and apart from the outer package, including a lower base compartment for holding the products, and an upper auxiliary compartment formed by two side panels and two end panels which are manually movable between a closed position with the panels in upwardly convergent disposition to an open position with the panels in non-convergent position to allow manual and visual access to the products. An inner package insert is preferably included to separately hold the products in easy identifiable locations before and after use.
Claims15
Improved packaging for a plurality of health care products which are designed to be removed from such packaging before being put to their intended use, including:
- an outer container member having lower wall means for defining a foot portion and having upper wall means for defining a head portion, and which is manually convertible between an open position where said lower wall means remains intact while said upper wall means are partially displaced outwardly to allow easy removability of the health care products and a closed position to securely store the health care products when not in use;
- an inner positioning member located in said foot portion, and having separator means for separately positioning each item of the health care products in said foot portion in a substantially upright position extending above said foot portion into said head portion to facilitate visual inspection of and manual access to each item of the health care products when said outer container member is in said open position;
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- said upper wall means includes a pair of opposing side panels which constitute an upward extension of said lower wall means and which remain upstanding when said outer container is in the open position, and opposing end panel means movable from being non-convergent when said outer container member is in said open position to being upwardly convergent to be removably attachable together by flap means for forming a lid above said head portion when said outer container is in said closed position, with said opposing end means having a width less than the width of said opposing side panels, and with both opposing side panels and said opposing end means for enclosing said head portion when said outer container member is in said closed position and for limiting the upward movement of the health care products relative to said inner position member to prevent each item of the health care products from becoming accidentally dislodged from its storage position in said inner positioning member.
Improved packaging for health care products including:
- rectangular box means for defining a base storage compartment for holding the health care products, said box means including a floor having a side dimension substantially greater than its end dimension, a pair of upstanding side walls, and a pair of upstanding end walls, with said rectangular box means remaining intact and unchanged when the packaging is in either a closed position for storage of the health care products or an open position for access to and use of the health care products;
- side panel means constituting an upward extension of said side walls, said side panel means remaining substantially upright both when the packaging is in the open position and in the closed position;
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- end panel means constituting an upward extension of said end walls, and combining together with said side panel means for forming an auxiliary compartment above and communicating with said base storage compartment, with said end panel means being manually bendable along its junction with said adjoining upstanding wall and movable between the closed position for enclosing the health care products within said storage and auxiliary compartments and the open position for allowing manual and visual access into said auxiliary compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.