Unit dose package

• US 5,000,314 A
• Filed: 01/23/1989
• Issued: 03/19/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
• Original Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
• Inventors: Tao, Michael C., Fuller, Ronald C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Fidei, David T.
• Application Number:
  US07/299,489
• Time in Patent Office: 785 Days
• Field of Search: 206/219, 206/221, 206/268, 206/222, 215/6, 215/DIG. 8, 220/417, 220/450, 220/456
• US Class Current: 206/221
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/2031 having openings brought into alignment
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/2093 Containers having several compartments for products to be mixed
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 9/00 Feeding-bottles in general
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/0018 of the 43-type
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2251/0093 Membrane
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/20 Caps, lids, or covers co-operating with an inner closure arranged to be opened by piercing, cutting, or tearing B65D51/185 takes precedence; co-operating with an auxiliary container for additional articles or materials B65D51/28
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/3205 Separate rigid or semi-rigid containers joined to each other at their external surfaces B65D81/3288 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 215/08 Mixing

Abstract

A unit dose package, which is usable with a bottle to reconstruct the contents of the package, has a plastic fitment which defines a mouth opening for the package. The plastic fitment is bonded to a wall of the package and has a channel which receives the neck of the bottle. A flexible foil membrane seal is removably attached to this plastic fitment and is covered by a protective overcap.

Claims

1. A unit dose package comprising:

a body having a wall, a bottom, and a mouth opening;

a plastic fitment sealed in said mouth opening, said plastic fitment including a fitment mouth providing access to an interior portion of said body and a spacing channel and a container neck receiving channel, said container neck receiving channel encircling said fitment mouth and adapted to receive a neck of an attachable container, said spacing channel encircling said container neck receiving channel; and

a sealing membrane removably secured to said plastic fitment and in sealing contact with the exterior portion of said fitment mouth above said spacing channel and said container neck receiving channel.

2. The unit dose package of claim 1 wherein said container neck receiving channel and said spacing channel are separated by a threaded ring.

3. The unit dose package of claim 2 wherein said threaded ring has a helical screw thread on a radially inner surface.

4. The unit dose package of claim 1 wherein said plastic fitment includes a water soluble membrane, said soluble membrane covering said fitment mouth defined by an annular mouth ring or spaced within said annular mouth ring.