Composite packaging arrangement for contact lenses
AssigneeJohnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc.
InventorsWallace Anthony Martin, Kornelis Renkema, Victor Lust
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Abstract
A composite or secondary packaging arrangement for the containment of hydrophilic contact lenses in a sterile aqueous solution. More specifically disclosed is a composite or secondary packaging arrangement wherein pluralities of disposable hydrophilic contact lenses possessing different optical characteristics or prescriptions are contained in one or more specific packaging arrays which are then collectively housed in separate paired box-like compartments or carton structures in a preselected customized manner so as to provide specified or essentially measured supplies of differing contact lenses for prescribed use in both eyes of a consumer over a predetermined period of time.
Claims35
A composite packaging including a generally rigid containment having a plurality of paired compartments each containing at least one array of packaging arrangements housing hydrophilic contact lenses in a sterile aqueous solution, wherein the contact lens contained in one of said paired compartments differ from the contact lens contained in the other of said paired compartments;
- each said array comprising a plurality of molded plastic base members each having a cavity for containing a contact lens immersed in said solution and a flange extending about said cavity;
- and flexible cover sheet means superimposed on and extending over respectively each said base member and dimensioned to be detachably sealed to the surface of said flange, said cover sheet means sealingly extending about said cavity and having edge portions providing gripping means for enabling separating said cover sheet from said flange so as to expose said cavity and facilitating external access to the contact lens.
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