Cold pack for vials containing medicine
AssigneePharmacia & Upjohn Company
InventorPaul P. Grabowski
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Abstract
A portable cold pack for cold storage and transporting of medicinal vials placed on a holder. The cold pack has a hollow, thin-walled housing and a base having a socket depression therein for receiving the holder. The housing and the base define an interior storage space around the holder. The hollow walls of the housing contain therein refreezable liquid for providing cooling energy. The socket depression orients the holder in the storage space in a close relationship to the interior surface of the hollow, thin-walled housing so as to efficiently cool the medicine within the vials. A closure assembly allows repeated access to the holder within the storage space.
Claims8
A portable package for cold storing and transporting medicine stored in vials, comprising:
- a holder means for holding at least one vial thereon;
- a housing having a base and a hollow, thin-walled wall construction, said hollow wall construction defining first and second cover members each hingedly secured to said base at spaced and parallel extending locations thereon to orient said base intermediately therebetween, said first and second cover members each being pivotable about respective axes of the hinged securement thereof to said base and thence being movable with respect to said base between a first position whereat each said cover member exposes a surface area forming a depression opening outwardly in a common first direction, and a second position whereat peripheral edges of said cover members tightly engage one another and the respective depressions face one another to define a storage space, said hollow wall construction defining a refreezable liquid receiving cavity therein, said cavity having a refreezable liquid therein, said base having a support means thereon for fixedly and removably supporting said holder means in said storage space and in close juxtaposition to said surface area forming said depressions;
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- closure means for providing access to and removal of said holder means from said storage space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.