EP0541643B1 - Reservoir de distribution de pilules, de comprimes et de capsules - Google Patents

Reservoir de distribution de pilules, de comprimes et de capsules Download PDF

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EP0541643B1
EP0541643B1 EP91914018A EP91914018A EP0541643B1 EP 0541643 B1 EP0541643 B1 EP 0541643B1 EP 91914018 A EP91914018 A EP 91914018A EP 91914018 A EP91914018 A EP 91914018A EP 0541643 B1 EP0541643 B1 EP 0541643B1
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Norman 14 Cliffmere Close Niven
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J7/00—Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoons; Pill counting devices; Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
    • A61J7/04—Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D83/04—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills

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  • THIS INVENTION concerns a container in accordance with the preamble of claim 1 for dispensing pills, tablets and capsules.
  • German patent specification DE-B-1909932 which device includes a fixed apertured tray with a closable lid, the device being adapted to receive beneath the lid a pre-packed card having individual compartments each for containing a single pill and faced with a sheet of foil, the compartments being located above individual circular holes in the tray such that by depressing a selected compartment the pill contained therein is pushed outwardly through the ruptured foil and through the associated aperture in the tray to emerge beneath the tray.
  • the lid When the device is used as intended, the lid must be opened before a pill can be dispensed, since the top of the tray is covered by a lid without apertures.
  • Containers for dispensing pills tablets and capsules are intended for use by individual patients within the community but more usually in hospitals and other establishments where the dosage of medicines for patients may be made up, say, once a week from a central dispensary.
  • a container for dispensing pills, tablets or capsules, made in accordance with the invention comprises a box 10 having a base, side and front walls 12 and 13 respectively, and a rear wall 14.
  • a lid 16 Hingedly attached at 15 to the rear of side walls 12 is a lid 16 which when closed covers the interior of the box.
  • the lid 16 includes rows of windows 17 through which the interior of the box is visible, and in the example shown there are 7 rows representing the days of the week and each containing 6 separate windows representing 6 periods of each day.
  • a transparent sliding shutter 18 Slidably located beneath the windows of each of the 7 rows is a transparent sliding shutter 18 supported beneath the underside of the lid 16 by shelf supports 19 (see Figs. 4 and 5) formed integrally with the lid.
  • Click stops 20 or similar catch devices are provided such that the shutters 18 may be slid open incrementally to expose one or more of the six windows in each daily row and to prevent the shutters from being easily removed entirely from the lid.
  • the box 10 contains a removable tray 21 which is formed to provide a plurality of compartments 22 each beneath one of the windows 17 in the lid when closed.
  • Two edge regions of the tray 21 include ledges 23 and 24 to which may be adhered printed strips of paper on which the days of the week and either a series of numbers or times of the day, respectively are visible.
  • slots 25 and 26 respectively are provided in the lid 16 so that when it is closed the printed material is visible through the slots.
  • a card 27 is placed in the bottom of the box 10 beneath the tray 21 and contains printed material which is visible through one or more cut-outs or windows 28 in the bottom of the box.
  • the printed material may provide information, for example, as to the patient's name, his doctor and the medicines, dosages and times appropriate to that patient.
  • the card 27 is loosely located in a recessed portion of the bottom of the box and may be readily replaced by first removing the tray 21, but it is otherwise held captive therein-by the tray. Therefore, by turning the box over the printed material may be easily read.
  • a further window 29 and a slot 30 to contain a further label on which the patient's details may be printed and perhaps containing a photograph of the patient as illustrated at 31 so that basic information concerning the patient may be viewed from the side of the container when a number of such containers are stacked together.
  • Slots 25 and 26 may be closed by replaceable plugs 32 (see Fig. 3) so that the information otherwise visible beneath the slots may be interchangeable. In this way, alternative information may be provided without changing the information printed on the sides of the tray 21. For example, information in different languages or in braille may be provided on the device for specialised use.
  • a catch 33 is provided at the front of the box whereby the lid may be normally retained in the closed position but it will be seen that when the lid is opened, the tray 21 may be filled without the tray being removed from the box containing the patient's details. This avoids the likelihood of incorrect medicines being dispensed to patients.
  • a thin acetate sheet or film 35 is placed in sealed contact with the upper edges of the tray 21.
  • the sheet 35 may be sealed only around the outer peripheral edges of the tray or alternatively also around the top edges of each compartment, by the application of an adhesive as indicated by dotted lines 36 applied either to the top of the tray or to the sheet, or both, before the sheet is applied.
  • the sheet is applied after the tray is is filled.
  • the sheet 35 may be translucent or transparent and may be of such material as to be capable of being punctured selectively to permit the contents of one or more compartments to be discharged through the windows 17.
  • Zone perforation 37 of the sheet 35 along one or more edges of the compartments 22 is preferable to assist opening in this way.
  • the perforation 37 may alternatively be over the central regions of the compartments.
  • the need for the sliding shutters 18 will be avoided by the use of such a sheet or film.
  • the sheet or film 35 may be applied with the tray 21 in situ or before insertion into the box.
  • the sheet or film 35 may be reusable indefinitely or until the adhesive strips 36 become ineffective. In this case, dispensing of the contents would be not by puncturing but by peeling back the sheet 35, perhaps at the start of a week in which case the shutters 18 would be required to occlude the compartments 22 until the contents of each compartment are required.
  • the entire tray 21 When required, with the lid hinged open, the entire tray 21 may be withdrawn from the boy for cleansing or replacement, and so the card 27 may be replaced or updated after removal of the tray.
  • the other card may be removed from slot 29 in the side wall 12 of the box once the lid is hinged open.
  • the box and lid are preferably made from a rigid plastics material and the shutters 18 from a transparent plastics material, whilst the tray 21 is preferably vacuum formed from a semi-rigid lightweight plastics so as to be inexpensively replaceable when worn or broken.
  • the cards carrying patient information may be of paper and thus replaceable when amendment is required, or alternatively of a so-called wipe-clean plastics which may be written upon using an indelible pen.
  • the box may contain two (or more) trays 22 stacked in superimposed relationship, each filled with pills or tablets, and each sealed with a separate sheet or film 35.
  • the box may be made deeper, or the trays shallower.
  • shutters 18 may be other than transparent, the numbers and sizes of the windows in the lid and the compartments in the tray may be different from those illustrated and described, and the patient information to be provided on the underside of the container may be written in indelible ink on a panel of wipe-clean material.
  • the tray 21 may be in the form of compartmental walls formed, perhaps integrally, within the box.
  • the plugs 32 which are interchangeable to provide different information may be colour-coded for identification.
  • the lid 16 may be slidable or fully removable with respect to the box to expose the compartments of the tray, provided that the tray need not be removed from that part of the box or lid containing the patient information.

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  1. Récipient pour distribuer des pilules, des comprimés et des capsules, comprenant une boîte (10) munie d'un couvercle (16) articulé à charnière ou amovible, la boîte définissant une pluralité de fenêtres (17) à travers lesquelles les contenus peuvent être distribués sélectivement en laissant le couvercle fermé, un plateau (21) disposé de façon amovible dans la boîte (10) sous le couvercle (16) et ayant une pluralité de compartiments (22) alignés avec lesdites fenêtres (17) et une feuille ou un film (35) pouvant être sélectivement enlevé ou brisé pour permettre de distribuer les contenus à travers les fenêtres sans ouvrir le couvercle, la feuille ou le film (35) s'étendant en travers des bords supérieurs d'au moins certains des compartiments (22) du plateau (21) en contact étanche avec ces bords pour obturer lesdits compartiments de telle manière que, par rupture sélective de la feuille ou du film (35), les contenus des compartiments individuels (22) puissent être distribués sélectivement à travers les fenêtres alignées correspondantes (17), caractérisé en ce que les fenêtres (17) sont prévues dans le couvercle (16).
  2. Récipient selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend des volets (18) pour obturer les fenêtres, lesquels volets peuvent être ouverts sélectivement pour permettre d'accéder à un ou plusieurs desdits compartiments (22) pour la distribution des contenus.
  3. Récipient selon la revendication 1 ou la revendication 2, dans lequel la feuille ou le film (35) s'étend en travers de tous les compartiments (22) du plateau (21) et est en contact étanche avec les bords périphériques supérieurs des compartiments.
  4. Récipient selon une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel ladite feuille ou ledit film (35) est perforé par zones (37) de manière à permettre d'accéder sélectivement et séparément à chacun desdits compartiments.
  5. Récipient selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que chacun desdits volets (18) est disposé de façon coulissante par rapport à une rangée de fenêtres (17) du couvercle (16) et comprend un dispositif d'arrêt (20) grâce auquel on peut ouvrir le volet incrémentalement par coulissement pour découvrir une ou plusieurs des fenêtres de ladite rangée.
  6. Récipient selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que lesdits volets (18) sont transparents.
  7. Récipient selon une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ladite feuille ou ledit film (35) est fait d'une matière d'acétate transparente mince, de sorte qu'il peut être attaché de façon amovible audit plateau (21) par un adhésif appliqué préalablement le long des bords supérieurs (36) des compartiments et des bords périphériques du plateau.
  8. Récipient selon une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel ledit plateau (21) est formé d'une matière plastique légère semi-rigide.
  9. Récipient selon une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend au moins deux plateaux compartimentés amovibles (21) placés de façon superposée à l'intérieur de la boîte (12), au moins le ou chaque plateau (21) situé au-dessous du plateau supérieur possédant ladite feuille ou ledit film (35) qui s'étend en travers des compartiments.
EP91914018A 1990-08-02 1991-07-22 Reservoir de distribution de pilules, de comprimes et de capsules Expired - Lifetime EP0541643B1 (fr)

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GB909017006A GB9017006D0 (en) 1990-08-02 1990-08-02 A container for dispensing pills,tablets and capsules
GB9017006 1990-08-02
GB9023477 1990-10-29
GB909023477A GB9023477D0 (en) 1990-08-02 1990-10-29 A container for dispensing pills,tablets and capsules
PCT/GB1991/001222 WO1992002202A1 (fr) 1990-08-02 1991-07-22 Reservoir de distribution de pilules, de comprimes et de capsules

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GR (1) GR3022313T3 (fr)
NO (1) NO311324B1 (fr)
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