Child resistant multiple dosage blister pack dispenser

• US 6,726,053 B1
• Filed: 10/29/2002
• Issued: 04/27/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Inno-Pak Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Valley Design Corporation
• Inventors: Harrold, John E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Noland, Kenneth W.
• Application Number:
  US10/282,428
• Publication Number:
  US 20040079759A1
• Time in Patent Office: 546 Days
• Field of Search: 221/25, 221/26, 221/7, 221/13, 221/82, 221/87, 221/88, 206/528, 206/531, 206/532, 206/538
• US Class Current: 221/25
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/035 Blister-type containers blisters in general B65D75/36
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 50/045 where one action elastically deforms or deflects at least part of the closure, the container or an intermediate element, e.g. a ring B65D50/041, B65D50/043 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 75/327 and forming several compartments
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/04 for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 11/66 in which the articles are dispensed by cutting from a mass
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/0092 for assembling and dispensing of pharmaceutical articles medical dispensers for private use, A61J7/00

Abstract

A child resistant multiple dosage blister pack dispenser includes a main housing bottom component having walls and a bottom panel for supporting a blister pack, and a main top component. The bottom panel has a plurality of orifices located so as to position a blister pack thereabove, with individual dosages of the blister pack located above the orifices. These orifices are of sufficient size and shape to push individual dosages from the blister pack therethrough. The main housing top component is permanently connected to the bottom component and is laterally moveable relative to the bottom component. The top component has a first position, being a rest position, and having a second position, being a dispensing position. There is a biasing spring connected to at least one of the bottom component and the top component, that biases the top component relative to the bottom component so that the top component is in its first position. There are a plurality of push tabs located on the top component in an array corresponding to the plurality of orifices on the bottom component. These plurality of push tabs are not located above the orifices or the individual dosages when the top component is in its first position. Further, the plurality of push tabs are located above the individual dosages and the bottom component orifices for pushing dosage from the blister pack therethrough when the top component is in its second position.

Claims

1. A child resistant multiple dosage blister pack dispenser, which comprises:

(a.) a main housing bottom component having walls and a bottom panel for supporting a blister pack, said bottom panel of said bottom component having a plurality of orifices located so as to position a blister pack thereabove, with individual dosages of said blister pack located above said orifices, said orifices being of sufficient size and shape to push individual dosages therethrough;

(b.) a main housing top component permanently connected to said bottom component and laterally moveable relative to said bottom component, said top component having a first position, being a rest position, and having a second position, being a dispensing position;

(c.) a biasing spring connected to at least one of said bottom component and said top component and biasing said top component relative to said bottom component to said top component first position, wherein a user may shift said top component relative to said bottom component by pressing one relative to the other to move said top component to said second position; and

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(d.) a plurality of push tabs located on said top component in an array corresponding to said plurality of orifices of said bottom component, said plurality of push tabs being located not above said orifices when said top component is in said first position, and said plurality of push tabs being located above said orifices for pushing dosage from said blister pack therethrough when said top component is in said second position.

2. The dispenser of claim 1 wherein said bottom component includes one of a track and a track rider on its walls and said top component includes walls having the other of said track and a track rider on said walls, and said track rider is located in said track so as that said track rider is slideable therein.

3. The dispenser of claim 2 wherein there are two opposite tracks and two corresponding track riders.

4. The dispenser of claim 1 wherein said biasing spring is unistructurally formed with at least one of said top component and said bottom component.

5. The dispenser of claim 1 wherein said main housing top component has at least two side walls, a front and a back, and a top panel wherein said push tabs are located in said top panel.

6. The dispenser of claim 5 wherein said main housing top component and bottom component are rectilinear.

7. The dispenser of claim 6 wherein said top component second position is located in a shifted position from sliding back to front.

8. The dispenser of claim 1 wherein at least one of said top component and said bottom component includes an open area for insertion of a blister pack.

9. The dispenser of claim 8 wherein at least one of said top component and said bottom component includes a blister pack retainer stop to prevent removal of a blister pack therefrom.

10. The dispenser of claim 1 wherein said main housing top component and bottom component are molded components formed as a unistructural piece connected by said biasing spring, and are adapted to be folded and snapped together.

11. A child resistant multiple dosage blister pack dispenser, which comprises:

(a.) a main housing bottom component having walls and a bottom panel for supporting a blister pack, said bottom panel of said bottom component having a plurality of orifices located so as to position a blister pack thereabove, with individual dosages of said blister pack located above said orifices, said orifices being of sufficient size and shape to push individual dosages therethrough;

(b.) a main housing top component permanently connected to said bottom component and laterally moveable relative to said bottom component, said top component having a first position, being a rest position, and having a second position, being a dispensing position;

(c.) a biasing spring connected to at least one of said bottom component and said top component and biasing said top component relative to said bottom component to said top component first position, wherein a user may shift said top component relative to said bottom component by pressing one relative to the other to move said top component to said second position;

(d.) a plurality of push tabs located on said top component in an array corresponding to said plurality of orifices of said bottom component, said plurality of push tabs being located not above said orifices when said top component is in said first position, and said plurality of push tabs being located above said orifices for pushing dosage from said blister pack therethrough when said top component is in said second position; and

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(e.) a blister pack located on said bottom component bottom panel and under said top component, said blister pack having a plurality of individual dosages positioned and arranged so as to correspond to and be located above said orifices of said bottom component.

12. The dispenser of claim 11 wherein said bottom component includes one of a track and a track rider on its walls and said top component includes walls having the other of said track and a track rider on said walls, and said track rider is located in said track so as that said track rider is slideable therein.

13. The dispenser of claim 12 wherein there are two opposite tracks and two corresponding track riders.

14. The dispenser of claim 11 wherein said biasing spring is unistructurally formed with at least one of said top component and said bottom component.

15. The dispenser of claim 11 wherein said main housing top component has at least two side walls, a front and a back, and a top panel wherein said push tabs are located in said top panel.

16. The dispenser of claim 15 wherein said main housing top component and bottom component are rectilinear.

17. The dispenser of claim 16 wherein said top component second position is located in a shifted position from sliding back to front.

18. The dispenser of claim 11 wherein at least one of said top component and said bottom component includes an open area for insertion of a blister pack.

19. The dispenser of claim 18 wherein at least one of said top component and said bottom component includes a blister pack retainer stop to prevent removal of a blister pack therefrom.

20. The dispenser of claim 11 wherein said main housing top component and bottom component are molded components formed as a unistructural piece connected by said biasing spring, and are adapted to be folded and snapped together.