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US 5,788,079 AGranted
Kit and process for the manufacture of a set of individual pill containers
AssigneeDispill Inc.
InventorMichel Bouthiette
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Abstract
A kit to sort out pills, tablets or capsules, which comprises a recessed support, a container-defining sheet designed to fit into the support, and a sealing sheet made of self-adhesive paper as having substantially the same dimension as the container-defining sheet, so as to close the same. Positioning elements are provided on the sealing sheet and on the support and/or the container-defining sheet in order to facilitate proper fixation of the sealing sheet on top of the container-defining sheet. A pill-sorting device made of two sliding panels with hollow bottomed recesses can be used to insert the pills into the containers of the container-defining sheet.
Claims17
A kit for the manufacture of a set of individual pill containers, said kit comprising:
- a) a container-defining sheet made of a plastic material, said container-defining sheet having a top surface comprising a given number of evenly spaced apart cavities embossed therein, each of said cavities being upwardly opened and thus defining a container, each of said containers being surrounded by a flange of a given width provided with a central dotted line punched therein, said dotted lines provided in all of said flanges making it possible to detach each of the containers from the container-defining sheet and from the adjacent containers;
- b) a recessed support having a top surface provided with a number of recesses at least equal to the number of cavities embossed in the container-defining sheet, said recesses being positioned, shaped and sized to receive the containers defined by said cavities embossed in the container-defining sheet;
- c) a container-sealing sheet made of paper, said container-sealing sheet having a top surface and a bottom surface and being shaped and sized to cover at least all the containers and surrounding flanges of the container-defining sheet, the bottom surface of said container-sealing sheet having bands covered with a self-adhesive material that are positioned, shaped and sized to exactly correspond to and fit over the flanges of the container-defining sheet, said bands being covered until use by a protective peelable paper covering and being provided with central tearing lines making it possible to tear said container-sealing sheet into a number of cover pieces corresponding to the number of said containers;
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- d) positioning means provided onto at least the top surface of the container-defining sheet and on the container-sealing sheet to ensure that, in use, after the container-defining sheet is fitted onto the recessed support, the paper covering is peeled off from the bands of the container-sealing sheet and said container-sealing sheet is positioned on top of the top surface of the container-defining sheet, the bands covered with a self-adhesive material and their tearing lines be in exact superposition -on top of the flanges and the dotted lines of the container-defining sheet.
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A method for the manufacture of a set of individual pill containers, using a kit comprising:
- a) a container-defining sheet made of a plastic material, said container-defining sheet having a top surface comprising a given number of evenly spaced apart cavities embossed therein, each of said cavities being upwardly opened and thus defining a container, each of said containers being surrounded by a flange of a given width provided with a central dotted line punched therein, said dotted line provided in all of said flanges making it possible to detach each of the containers from the container-defining sheet and from the adjacent containers;
- b)said recessed support having a top surface provided with a number of recesses at least equal to the number of cavities embossed in the container-defining sheet, said recessed support being positioned, shaped and sized to receive the containers defined by said cavities embossed in the container-defining sheet;
- c) a container-sealing sheet made of paper, said container-sealing sheet having a top surface and a bottom surface and being shaped and sized to cover at least all the containers and surrounding flanges of the container-defining sheet, the bottom surface of said container-sealing sheet having bands covered with a self-adhesive material that are positioned, shaped and sized to exactly correspond to and fit over the flanges of the container-defining sheet, said bands being covered until use by a protective peelable paper covering and being provided with central tearing lines making it possible to tear said container-sealing sheet into a number of cover pieces corresponding to the number of said containers;
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- d) positioning means provided onto at least the top surface of the container-defining sheet and on the container-sealing sheet to ensure that, in use, after the container-defining sheet is fitted onto the recessed support, the paper covering is peeled off from the bands of the container-sealing sheet and said container-sealing sheet is positioned on top of the top surface of the container-defining sheet, the bands covered with a self-adhesive material and their tearing lines being in exact superposition on top of the flanges and the dotted lines of the container-defining sheet;
- said method comprising the steps of:
- engaging the cavities of the container-defining sheet into the recesses of the recessed support;
- filling each cavity with a given number of pill(s);
- peeling off the paper covering of the container sealing sheet;
- engaging the positioning means provided on the top of the container-defining sheet together with the one provided on the container sealing sheet;
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- pressing the bands of the bottom surface of the container-sealing sheet to the top surface of the container-defining sheet so that said bands covered with a self-adhesive material and their tearing lines are in exact superposition on top of the flanges and the dotted lines of the container-defining sheet and become glued to said flanges.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.