Classifications

• • 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
• • 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
  • A61J1/00—Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes
  • A61J1/03—Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes for pills or tablets
• • 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
  • A61J7/0076—Medicament distribution means
  • A61J7/0084—Medicament distribution means for multiple medicaments
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10S206/00—Special receptacle or package
  • Y10S206/815—Finger opening

Definitions

• the invention relates to a storage device which is suitable for presorting and holding medicines, in particular solid dosage forms - adapted to the medically prescribed individual intake rhythm of the respective patient - in such a way that administration in the correct dose at the predetermined times can be carried out without problems.
• Such storage devices are required for the storage of medication and to facilitate the distribution of medication, particularly in the care of the elderly and the disabled.
• Drug cabinets with various subdivisions are known in order to have the medication on hand for the disabled or the elderly.
• blister packs used in inserts are used, which indicate the day of the week and when the corresponding medication is to be taken.
• DE 296 10 951 U1 discloses a sorting container for small parts, in particular for medicines in tablet or capsule form, which has a box-shaped receptacle and can hold up to seven individual containers arranged in a row.
• the box-shaped receptacle has a recess in the front central zone of the base and a vertical, slit-shaped opening in the front wall as a way of removing the foremost individual container.
• Each individual container has a rectangular aperture, with the transparent sliding lid in the internal grooves on the upper edges of the long sides.
• the main feature of this invention is a slide part designed as a roller shutter-like cover which is operatively connected to the storage element by means of a compensating coupling.
• the flexible slide part is guided via the parallel internal grooves of the side walls.
• the storage element has chamber areas arranged one behind the other, which are separated from one another by means of fixed dividers.
• a cuboid, modular container, in particular for medicines is known, the hinged lid and the hinged bottom part of which are each fastened on one side to the rear end of the container.
• the seven chamber areas of the container, which are arranged in a square shape, are separated from each other by fixed dividers.
• several containers designed as daily dispensers can be connected to one another via the tongue and groove formed on the long sides in order to increase the capacity of the container.
• US 5,558,229 is a standing container designed as a weekly dispenser, which receives daily dispensers arranged vertically one above the other, the front wall and the side walls which extend to approximately half the depth of the day container being opened.
• the individual daily dispensers which are divided into up to four chambers, are removed from the weekly dispenser here.
• the individual chambers of the daily dispenser can be opened separately using a transparent cover. Locking and guiding the individual daily dosers within the Weekly dispenser is carried out through the stops arranged on the inside of the container.
• GB 2 122 578 A also belongs to the prior art, in which an angular container accommodates several vertically arranged individual containers and encompasses them on all sides with its side walls.
• the essence of this invention is that the vertically displaceable front cover has recessed areas through which a single container can be removed.
• this removal of the individual containers in the upper region of the receiving container is realized via a spring element with a connected and thus movable base part. The spring force effect causes the subsequent individual container to be moved to the recess area after a container has been removed.
• the object of the invention is to develop a new storage device, the containers of which are designed and arranged in such a way that simple inspection, filling and removal can be carried out to keep the time of day, day, week and month ready.
• the new storage device is designed once as a weekly dispenser.
• the weekly dispenser is constructed like a magazine so that several containers B are stacked in a receiving container A.
• the receiving container A is at least partially open on the two end faces and contains magazine-like, approximately parallel to the inclined end face plane, lined up on its longitudinal narrow sides on the bottom of the container A.
• the approximately conforming inclined position of the two end planes points away from the front end. As a result of this inclination, the current content of all containers B in the stacked storage position in container A can be viewed by the user at any time without further action.
• the containers B are the daily or daily dispensers. There are 7 daily dosing units in each weekly dosing unit (container A).
• the daily dosing devices (containers B) equipped with tablets, for example, can be moved forward, i.e. through the front end of the weekly dispenser and put it back in again, and after the contents have been used up, it can be reinserted into the weekly dispenser via the rear end.
• the upper wall resting on the side walls of container A can be made removable.
• the side edges of the top wall and the adjacent longitudinal edges of the side walls interlock so that the top wall can only be removed by pressing the side walls inwards and thus in the empty state of the weekly dispenser.
• a free space is provided between the front face or face level of the weekly dispenser and the beginning of the upper wall. This free space enables the first daily dispenser on the removal side to be reached behind from above and thus easier to dispense and the easier reloading of the first daily dispenser.
• the free space is limited to the central region and on both edge sides adjoining the central region the upper wall is in the form of a flexible web or one tongue-like spring element extended to the front end.
• the flexible webs to support the locking function can have a bead in the front area, the resistance of which must be overcome when removing or replacing the daily dispenser.
• the geometry of the containers B, the daily dosing devices, is such that their length is adapted to the width of the container A (weekly dosing device), so that the “loading” takes place by stacking the transverse daily dosing devices in the weekly dosing device.
• Each daily dispenser consists of a base part and a preferably transparent cover part, which can be removed from the base part or is longitudinally displaceable on the base part.
• the cover part engages with its side longitudinal edges over the body wall of the base part.
• the bottom part of the daily feeder is designed with a curved wall and dividers are inserted in the bottom part to form separate storage spaces.
• Each divider is divided into at least 5 compartments by means of these dividers, which are introduced transversely to the longitudinal axis of the base part, so that tablets for "morning", “noon”, “evening", “night” and “demand” can be inserted be applied to the cover part.
• the storage device can also be designed as a monthly dispenser.
• a monthly dispenser consists of a housing with several slide-in units or push frames, which are arranged in container C, the monthly dispenser.
• Each push frame has at least one pick-up grid or a replaceable box-shaped insert with pick-up grid for storing the containers B, which are used here as daily dosers or time-of-day dosers.
• the containers B are arranged lying on their longitudinal narrow side in the receiving grid of the push frame.
• a monthly dispenser comprises at least 112 daily dispensers or time of day dispensers for 4 weeks, whereby the push frames and the inserted daily dispensers or daily dispensers carry a marking (color, PIN etc.) with a day or the like, if necessary, to identify use.
• a marking color, PIN etc.
• recesses in the bottom area of the push frame for the classification of tubes, bottles, blisters, application instructions, aids and the like. Like. Be present.
• a special feature of the push frame is that it can be pulled out of the housing up to a few mm - i.e. almost completely - and tilts down by a few cm in the last phase of pulling out. This means that the rearmost part of the push frame can be easily accessed.
• This particular mobility of the push frame is achieved once by stops provided on the rear of the push frame which, after the push frame has been completely pulled out, abut corresponding stops which are arranged on the front housing frame.
• the groove of the sliding guide is progressively widened in the final phase, so that the running rail sliding in the groove due to the increasingly larger game - together with the push frame - can lower.
• the basic configuration of a monthly dispenser includes 5 push frames, preferably 4 small and 1 large push frames.
• the drawers of the push frames in the housing of the monthly dispenser are arranged so that one large push frame can be exchanged for two small ones.
• the monthly dispenser can have a locking function that can block individual, several or all push frames in the housing. There is also a handle unit for easy transportation.
• the monthly dispensers are stackable, they can be connected to each other, arranged in shelves, cupboards or hung on a wall.
• FIG. 1 shows the overall view of a weekly dispenser in a perspective view
• FIG. 2 shows a sectional view of the “magazine-loaded” weekly dispenser along the section line AA in FIG. 1,
• FIG. 5 general view of a monthly dispenser in perspective Presentation
• Fig. 8 section of the sliding guide of the push frame.
• Fig. 1 shows the weekly dispenser 1 in an overall view.
• the weekly dispenser consists of a base part 3 with side walls 5 connected at right angles, an upper wall 4 which cannot be removed by the user and the two inclined end face levels 2.
• the upper wall 4 For mounting the upper wall 4 on the side walls 5 there are two on the upper wall 4 Claws 4.1 and two associated cutouts 5.2 with depressions on the side walls.
• the claws engage from the inside and / or outside in the associated cutouts which are adapted in shape and lead to a latching connection.
• the front end is for better handling of the removal and reinsertion of the filled daily dose 7, s. Fig. 2, carried out openly by the patient.
• An approximately half-high, outwardly curved drop side 2.1 is provided on the rear end face, against which the last daily metering device 7 is supported with its adapted curved base part 8, cf. also Fig. 2.
• the upper wall 4 of the weekly dispenser 1 is shortened in comparison to the length of the side walls 5 in such a way that on the two end faces 2 the daily dispenser 7, which is on the outside in each case, is also gripped from above and pulled out towards the front (open front end) or pushed in from above (rear Front side with side wall 2.1) can be.
• this free space of the upper wall 4 is delimited by two tongue-like spring elements 6 arranged on the side.
• These spring elements 6 extend in the extension of the upper wall 4 in the direction of the front end plane 2 and lie on the respective front daily metering device 7.
• a bead 6.1 which can be provided in the front area of the spring elements 6 on its underside, supplements the measures for locking the respective front daily dosing device 7.
• the force of these spring elements 6 must be forward when removing the daily dosing device 7 or when inserting a daily dosing device 7 can be overcome from the front.
• a clamping element 5.1 is introduced in each of the two side walls 5, which acts via its clamping action on the two end faces of the daily dosing device positioned here, see FIG. also Fig. 2.
• These clamping elements 5.1 can be designed as a clamping bead, clamping wedge or clamping web.
• Both component pairs 5.1, 6 ensure that no daily dosing device 7 can slip out of the end faces 2 at any position of the weekly dosing device 1.
• FIG. 2 illustrates a weekly dispenser 1 “stacked” by stacking seven daily dispensers 7.
• the seven daily dispensers 7 lie in a semi-oblique position, approximately parallel to the end face planes 2, by means of their longitudinal narrow side 7.1 on the floor 3 of the weekly dispenser 1.
• Each daily dispenser 7 consists of a base part 8 and a cover part 9, see. also Fig. 3 and Fig. 4. When the two parts 8, 9 are joined together
• Cover part 9 with its side longitudinal edges 9.1 over the body wall of the bottom part 8.
• This structure with an outer guide of the cover part 9 is one quick lid removal by simply clicking on it and subsequent (renewed) filling of the daily dispenser possible.
• the desired number of storage compartments of the daily dispenser 7 is created by means of the separating webs 8. 1 in the base portion 8.
• the storage compartments are released in the intended order by correspondingly moving the cover portion 9 on the base portion 8.
• Knobs 7.2 arranged distributed over the outer wall of the base part 8 ensure a better support of the daily dispenser 7.
• FIG. 5 shows a stackable monthly dispenser 10 in a portable design with a retractable handle element 18.
• the illustrated monthly metering device 10 consists in the basic structure of a housing 12 with five push frames 11 designed as inserts. Two removable box-shaped inserts 14 can usually be inserted into each push frame 11. Each push frame 11 or each insert 14 has at least one receiving grid 13 for storing the daily dosers and / or daytime dosers 7, in turn in a semi-inclined position.
• the supports of the receiving grid 13 are designed with a curvature that is adapted to the base part 8 of the daily dispenser 7.
• cutouts 11.2 which lie one above the other, so that - after pulling out the push frame 11 - the stored daily dose and / or daily dose meter 7, tubes, bottles, blisters and the like also from below the cutouts 11.2 can be attacked through and the removal is thereby supported or facilitated.
• Each insert 14 usually has a receiving grid 13 arranged in pairs or on both sides, on which the daily dosers and / or daytime dosers 7 rest with their two ends.
• Marking fields 11.3 serve to simplify the medication classification and administration and can be provided both on the handle side of the push frame and on the daily or daily dose 7.
• Fig. 7 shows a section of the push frame 11 showing the stop 15.1 on the back of the push frame 11.1.
• Fig. 8 shows the front (insertion side) of the housing frame 12.1 with the corresponding stop 15.2, which - after pulling out the push frame 11 - strikes the stop 15.1 located on the back of the push frame.
• the lowering movement of the sliding frame 11 sliding with rails 17 in the associated grooves 16 is made possible by the progressive widening of the groove shown.

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