Product packaging material for individual temporary storage of pharmaceutical products

• US 20040069674A1
• Filed: 10/11/2002
• Published: 04/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MTS Medication Technologies, Inc. (Omnicell Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: MTS Medication Technologies, Inc. (Omnicell Incorporated)
• Inventors: Siegel, Todd
• Granted Patent: US 6,981,592 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/538
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 75/327 and forming several compartments

Abstract

An improved temporary pharmaceutical product packaging solution provides users with multiple individual cavities that may be filled with multiple individual doses of various pharmaceuticals and subsequently sealed by the user for future consumption of the pharmaceuticals. In a preferred exemplary embodiment, the user is able to simultaneously seal a plurality of individual cavities with a sheet of cover material after the individual cavities have been filled with the desired pharmaceuticals. In a preferred exemplary embodiment of the cover material is reverse printed with dosing information for an individual.

Claims

1. A temporary pharmaceutical product package comprising:

a thick support member;

at least one sheet of material having a plurality of cavities formed therein, wherein the cavities are located within holes formed in the thick support member; and

at least one sheet of cover material.

2. The temporary pharmaceutical product package of claim 1, wherein a plurality of sheets of material each having a plurality of cavities formed therein are stacked on top of one another such that the cavities from the sheets of material are located within the holes formed in the thick support member.

3. The temporary pharmaceutical product package of claim 1, wherein the thick support member is formed of a foam material.

4. The temporary pharmaceutical product package of claim 1, wherein the sheet of cover material is reverse printed with dosing information that is visible through the sheet having the cavities formed therein when the cavities are sealed.