US 6,854,618 B2Granted

Child resistant blister pack dispenser with multipositional push tabs

AssigneeValley Design, Inc.

InventorJohn E. Harrold

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Abstract

A child resistant multiple dosage blister pack dispenser includes a main housing bottom component having walls and a bottom panel for supporting a blister pack, a middle component, and a main top component. The bottom panel has a plurality of rows of orifices located so as to position a blister pack thereabove, with individual dosages of the blister pack located above the orifices, so that individual dosages are pushed therethrough from the blister pack. The main housing top component is connected to the middle component and is laterally moveable. It has a first position, being a rest position, and a second position, being a dispensing position. There is a biasing spring connected to at least one of the components, that biases the top component relative to the middle component so that the top component is in its first position. There are a plurality of push tabs located on the top component for dispensing in a second position. The middle component may be unlocked and moved into new positions sequentially so that the push tabs are operated on subsequent rows of medication dosages.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A child resistant multiple dosage blister pack dispenser for use with blister packs having a plurality of rows of medication, which comprises:

(a.) a main housing bottom component having walls and a bottom panel for supporting a blister pack, said bottom panel of said bottom component having a plurality of rows of orifices located so as to position a blister pack thereabove, with individual dosages of said blister pack located above said orifices, said orifices being of sufficient size and shape to push individual dosages therethrough;
(b.) a main housing middle component permanently, slideably and lockably mounted on said main housing component, and having sufficient opening to expose said bottom component orifices to a top component;
(c.) a main housing top component permanently connected to said middle component and laterally moveable relative to said middle component, said top component having a first position, being a rest position, and having a second position, being a dispensing position;
(d.) a biasing spring connected to at least one of said bottom, said middle, and said top component and biasing said top component relative to said middle component to said top component first position, wherein a user may shift said top component relative to said middle component by pressing one relative to the other to move said top component to said second position;
and,
(e.) a plurality of push tabs located on said top component in an array corresponding to at least one row of said plurality of orifices of said bottom component, said plurality of push tabs being located not above said orifices when said top component is in said first position, and said plurality of push tabs being located above said orifices for pushing dosage from said blister pack therethrough when said top component is in said second position.

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A child resistant multiple dosage blister pack dispenser, which comprises:

(a) a main housing bottom component having walls and a bottom panel for supporting a blister pack, said bottom panel of said bottom component having a plurality of rows of orifices located so as to position a blister pack thereabove, with individual dosages of said blister pack located above said orifices, said orifices being of sufficient size and shape to push individual dosages therethrough;
(b) a main housing middle component permanently slideable and lockable mounted on said main housing component, and having sufficient opening to expose said bottom component orifices to a top component;
(c) a main housing top component permanently connected to said middle component and laterally moveable relative to said middle component, said top component having a first position, being a rest position, and having a second position, being a dispensing position;
(d) a biasing spring connected to at least one of said bottom, said middle, and said top component and biasing said top component relative to said middle component to said top component first position, wherein a user may shift said top component relative to said middle component by pressing one relative to the other to move said top component to said second position;
(e) a plurality of push tabs located on said top component in an array corresponding to at least one row of said plurality of orifices of said bottom component, said plurality of push tabs being located not above said orifices when said top component is in said first position, and said plurality of push tabs being located above said orifices for pushing dosage from said blister pack therethrough when said top component is in said second position;
and,
(f) a blister pack located on said bottom component bottom panel and under said middle and top components, said blister pack having a plurality of rows of individual dosages positioned and arranged so as to correspond to and be located above said orifices of said bottom component.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/341,620Filed 12 Mar 2003 · continuation in part
Priority: 29 Oct 2002
Published: US 2004/0079759 A116 Sep 2004
Granted: 15 Feb 2005
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

B65D 50/045
Requiring the combination of simultaneous actions, e.g. depressing and turning, lifting and turning, maintaining a part and turning another one:…
B65D 75/327
One sheet being recessed, and the other being a flat not- rigid sheet, e.g. puncturable or peelable foil: and forming several compartments
B65D 83/04
Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents: for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, spherical or like small articles, e.g.…
G07F 11/66
Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles: in which the articles are dispensed by cutting from a mass

Family

Application10/282,428Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 29 Oct 2002
US 2004/0178111 A1Pre-grant publication · published 16 Sep 2004
US 6,726,053 B1Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2004/0079759 A1Published application
US 6,854,618 B2This patent

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