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US 8,007,883 B2Granted
Container comprising a transparent cylindrical container wall
AssigneeFisher Clinical Services, Inc.
InventorAlain Dürr
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Abstract
The invention relates to a container (1) comprising a transparent cylindrical container wall (2) and an envelope (8) covering the entire container wall. Such containers are used in the form of a vial, an ampulla or a syringe, for example, in clinical tests of medicaments or remedies. According to the invention, the envelope is embodied in an opaque manner such that it can be determined whether undissolved particles are still present in the liquid, but the actual color of the content cannot be determined.
Claims26
A container comprising:
- a transparent, cylindrical container wall which includes and extends between a container neck and a container bottom;
- and
- a jacket comprising a first half shell and a second half shell which are each preformed from a thin film material with an inner surface extending between a first edge and a spaced apart second edge, each inner surface corresponding to a shape of the container wall, including the container bottom and the container neck, the first and second half shells being hingedly connected together along a generatrix, wherein the generatrix defines a line along which the first edge of the first half shell and the first edge of the second half shell are maintained in direct contact, the jacket being hingeable about the generatrix between an open position in which the second edge of the first half shell is spaced apart from the second edge of the second half shell, and a closed position in which the second edge of the first half shell is adjacent to or in direct contact with the second edge of the second half shell, the first and second half shells retaining their respective three-dimensional shapes when the jacket is in the open and closed positions, the jacket covering the entire container wall in the closed position, including at least a portion of the container neck and at least a portion of the container bottom, the container containing a liquid or freeze-dried galenic formulation wherein the jacket is comprised of a material that has a transparency that allows a determination to be made as to whether solid particles or a liquid or a liquid with still undissolved particles are disposed within the container while preventing the actual colour of the contents to be determined when viewing the contents through the jacket.
A set of containers, comprising a plurality of containers,
- each container having a transparent cylindrical container wall which includes and extends between a container neck and a container bottom, and a jacket covering the entire container wall and containing a liquid or freeze-dried galenic formulation,
- wherein each jacket is comprised of a first half shell and a second half shell which are each preformed from a thin film material with an inner surface extending between a first edge and a spaced apart second edge, each inner surface corresponding to an exact shape of the container wall, the first and second half shells being hingedly connected together along a generatrix, wherein the generatrix defines a line along which the first edge of the first half shell and the first edge of the second half shell are maintained in direct contact, each jacket being hingeable about the generatrix between an open position in which the second edge of the first half shell is spaced apart from a second edge of the second half shell, and a closed position in which the second edge of the first half shell is adjacent to or in direct contact with the second edge of the second half shell, the first and second half shells retaining their respective three-dimensional shapes when the jacket is in the open and closed positions, wherein each jacket is also comprised of a material with a transparency that allows a determination to be made as to whether solid particles, or a liquid, or a liquid with still undissolved particles are disposed within the container while preventing the actual colour of the contents to be determined when viewing the contents through the jacket,
- wherein not all containers have the same contents, and
- wherein all containers are provided with an identical jacket, and all containers can only be distinguished from one another by lettering or numbering.
1 more element
A jacket comprising first and second half shells which are preformed together from a thin film material, the first and second half shells each having a first edge and a spaced apart second edge, the first and second half shells being hingedly connected to each other along an entire length of a generatrix which defines a line along which the first edge of the first half shell and the first edge of the second half shell are maintained in direct contact,
- the jacket being hingeable about the generatrix between an open position in which the second edge of the first half shell is spaced apart from the second edge of the second half shell, and a closed position in which the second edge of the first half shell is adjacent to or in direct contact with the second edge of the second half shell, the first and second half shells retaining their respective three-dimensional shapes when the jacket is in the open and closed positions,
- the jacket being configured to be removably put around a transparent container containing a liquid or freeze-dried galenic formulation so as to entirely cover the container when in the closed position, the jacket being comprised of a colored material transparency that causes different colored contents in a container covered by the jacket to be indistinguishable based on color while allowing undissolved particles within the container to be visable when viewed through the jacket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.