Tamper evident closure container

• US 10,342,914 B2
• Filed: 03/03/2016
• Issued: 07/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Plas-Tech Engineering, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Plas-Tech Engineering, Inc.
• Inventors: Hirschmann, Aaron, Hacker, Robert, Fesus, Robert, Grimes, Christopher, Talbot Griffith, Hannah
• Primary Examiner(s): Ackun, Jacob K
• Application Number:
  US15/059,428
• Publication Number:
  US 20160206807A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,223 Days
• Field of Search: 206364, 206365, 206 15
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/002 Packages specially adapted therefor, e.g. for syringes or needles, kits for diabetics needle protection, e.g. caps, A61M5/3202; for sharps A61B50/3001
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31501 Means for blocking or restricting the movement of the rod or piston A61M5/5013 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/31525 Dosing burettes, pipettes B01L3/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/50 having means for preventing re-use, or for indicating if defective, used, tampered with or unsterile retractable needles or needle protectors with means for preventing re-use A61M5/321
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 55/06 Deformable or tearable wires, strings, or strips containers specially constructed to be opened by tear-strips, strings or the like B65D17/00; caps or cap-like closures with tear-strips B65D41/32; Use of seals , e.g. destructible locking pins B65D55/022 takes precedence

Abstract

A closure container that can house a preset drug applicator in an easily accessible manner with tamper evidencing means. The closure container contains a plurality of dosing ribs and a retainer to retain the syringe in a preset dosage amount and preferably has a window to view the barrel of the syringe.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a first casing member and a second casing member;

a syringe containing a predetermined amount of fluid;

a fastener having a tamper evident pull tab, the fastener being connected to and depending from one of the first casing member and the second casing member and configured to releasably maintain closure of the container about the syringe, the fastener having an interior surface adapted to lie over a portion of the other of the first casing member and the second casing member,

a barb projecting from the fastener interior surface; and

the other of the first casing member and the second casing member has a surface and a longitudinal length with opposite ends, and the surface has a slot therein between the opposed ends, the slot being sized, positioned and configured to receive and retain the barb in an engaged position.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein

the fastener is flexibly connected to the first casing member at the peripheral edge portion of the first casing member.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a window in one of the first casing member and the second casing member,

the window being more transparent than the remainder of the respective casing member.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the window is positioned on the container to enable visual access to a barrel of a retained syringe.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the first casing member and second casing member are formed as a unitary injection molded piece and are hingedly connected by a living hinge.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the slot is midway between the opposed ends.