Example bearing guide to the use of a set of products and method of using the same

• US 6,575,297 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2001
• Issued: 06/10/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mary E. Schutten
• Original Assignee: Mary E. Schutten
• Inventors: Schutten, Mary E.
• Primary Examiner(s): FOSTER, JIMMY G
• Application Number:
  US09/952,354
• Publication Number:
  US 20020100700A1
• Time in Patent Office: 636 Days
• Field of Search: 406/61, 407/01--10, 407/76, 534/73, 534/74, 206/459.5, 206/531, 206/532, 206/534, 206/534.1, 206/538, 206/539, 206/232, 283/115, 283/900
• US Class Current: 206/232
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/03 for pills or tablets containers for pills or tablets with special dispensing means therefor B65D83/04
• CPC Class Codes: B42F 3/003 Perforated or punched sheets
• CPC Class Codes: B42F 7/065 made of transparent material
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 283/90 Medical record

Abstract

A method of creating a guide to the use of a set of products, which includes an example set of the products. This method includes providing at least one product guide apparatus that includes transparent, flexible material formed into a set of pockets of sufficient size to receive and retain any one of the set of products. The guide also includes material that can be written upon and an associative assembly, adapted to physically associate the material that can be written upon to the transparent flexible material formed into a set of pockets. A first one of the products is placed in a first one of the set of pockets and a second one of the products is placed in a second one of the set of pockets. Next, descriptions of the first and second products are written on the material that can be written upon.

Claims

1. A product guide apparatus for displaying a set of products together with a written description of each of said products, including:

(a) a thin pocketed device, formed of flexible, conformable material and defining a set of plural first pockets each being of sufficient size to receive and retain any one product of said set of products, said first pockets being separated from one another by a set of first seams in said flexible, conformable material, and defining a second pocket, being larger than any of said first pockets, said first pockets and said second pocket being formed on at least one side of transparent material of said flexible conformable material;

(b) a chart, removably fitted into said second pocket and bearing a set of spaced first lines, each said first line being aligned to a first seam, and bearing a second set of spaced lines intersecting said first lines, headings printed on said chart at positions corresponding to the spacing between said second lines, said first and second lines creating a set of spaces on said chart which coordinate said headings with said first pockets, each said space corresponding to a said first pocket and a said heading, each said space available for writing a description of contents of said corresponding first pocket; and

(c) wherein a product guide may be easily produced by placing products in said first pockets and writing product descriptions on said chart in said corresponding spaces.

2. The product guide apparatus of claim 1 wherein said chart further bears a set of second lines, each said second line being perpendicular to said first lines and dividing said spaces into subspaces, and wherein some of said subspaces are preprinted to provide an indication of the type of information to be recorded in each remaining subspace.

3. The product guide apparatus of claim 2 wherein said pocketed device includes a third pocket, sized to fit a business card.

4. The product guide apparatus of claim 2 wherein said pocketed device further defines at least one through-hole near one edge, adapted to permit said pocketed device to be bound in a binder.