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EP1057749B1 - Emballage à libération par enfonçement - Google Patents

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EP1057749B1
EP1057749B1 EP99810479A EP99810479A EP1057749B1 EP 1057749 B1 EP1057749 B1 EP 1057749B1 EP 99810479 A EP99810479 A EP 99810479A EP 99810479 A EP99810479 A EP 99810479A EP 1057749 B1 EP1057749 B1 EP 1057749B1
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covering layer
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Peter Kancsar
Laurenz Zellweger
Michael Krohn
Claudia Schmauder
Susanne Marti
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3A Composites International AG
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Priority to US09/926,581 priority patent/US6705467B1/en
Priority to JP2001501532A priority patent/JP2003501325A/ja
Priority to AU55240/00A priority patent/AU5524000A/en
Priority to PCT/EP2000/004320 priority patent/WO2000075043A1/fr
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    • 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
    • B65D83/0445—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills all the articles being stored in individual compartments
    • B65D83/0463—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills all the articles being stored in individual compartments formed in a band or a blisterweb, inserted in a dispensing device or container
    • 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
    • B65D75/00—Packages comprising articles or materials partially or wholly enclosed in strips, sheets, blanks, tubes or webs of flexible sheet material, e.g. in folded wrappers
    • B65D75/28—Articles or materials wholly enclosed in composite wrappers, i.e. wrappers formed by associating or interconnecting two or more sheets or blanks
    • B65D75/30—Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding
    • B65D75/32—Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding one or both sheets or blanks being recessed to accommodate contents
    • B65D75/325—Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding one or both sheets or blanks being recessed to accommodate contents one sheet being recessed, and the other being a flat not- rigid sheet, e.g. puncturable or peelable foil
    • B65D75/327—Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding one or both sheets or blanks being recessed to accommodate contents one sheet being recessed, and the other being a flat not- rigid sheet, e.g. puncturable or peelable foil and forming several compartments
    • 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
    • B65D2215/00—Child-proof means

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  • the present invention relates to a push-through pack containing a bottom part of at least a surface piece and with at least one depression, one fixed on the bottom part and at least push-throughs that cover the depression opening of the depression Cover film, and a cover layer, which overlies the cover film on the outside, and the Top layer contains non-push-through and push-through surface sections and the recess in the rest position of the push-through pack at least partially over a non-push-through Surface section is in the top layer and to expose the ingredient located in the recess Means are arranged through which the recess opening by means of a relative to the cover layer executed movement over a push-through surface section in the top layer can be brought so that the ingredient through the cover sheet and the push-through Surface section in the top layer can be pressed.
  • the invention further relates to the use of a blister pack.
  • base parts also called product carriers, of blister packs or blister packs, with push-through cover films, for example made of metal, such as aluminum, to close.
  • the cover film can be an aluminum film coated with a sealing layer, like a sealing wax.
  • the aluminum foil is applied over the sealing layer sealed to the bottom part, for example by heat sealing.
  • the ingredients are removed by deforming the recess against the Cover film pressed, the cover film tears or bursts and the ingredient or releases the contents.
  • aluminum foils finished with a sealing layer are suitable especially good for this purpose.
  • the packs described contain, for example Medicines as pills, tablets, dragées, ampoules and the like.
  • DE-A-29 19 713 describes a child-resistant pharmaceutical packaging made from a base film, a push-through film and a security film known.
  • the ingredient can only after the safety film has been completely removed, for example by peeling off the safety film, can be removed from the pack by pushing through, but this is also the case adults, especially older people, can cause trouble.
  • the US 5,150,793 describes a child-resistant packaging from a bottom part several wells, the wells being covered with a push-through foil. Another cover film with openings is provided on the push-through film. At the edge the packaging has a housing in which spring means for displacement of the bottom part are arranged relative to the cover film. The depressions are in the rest position over non-penetrable areas of the cover film. The bottom part or the depressions can counter to the removal of the content by exerting a pushing force of the spring pressure are pushed over the openings of the cover film.
  • the object of the present invention is the creation of a blister pack by children cannot be opened and still for adults and especially for older ones People is easy to use and open.
  • the object is achieved in that the cover layer on two opposite Side edges or side edge areas of the surface piece with the bottom part is connected and at least the top layer, preferably the top layer and the surface piece, contains fold lines on which the top layer is moved can be opened and folded in parallelogram fashion relative to the patch, so that the Recess opening when folding down on a push-through surface section in the Top layer comes to lie.
  • Push-through is preferably to be understood as push-through by hand.
  • the push-through pack according to the invention expediently contains a base part with at least one or a plurality of, for example, angular, round or oval depressions, also called fans or cups.
  • the bottom part can, for example, in plan view be rectangular in shape, the depressions preferably being uniformly distributed and in Columns and rows are arranged.
  • the blister pack points between the individual Wells, preferably transverse and longitudinal lines of weakness, preferably Perforations on which surface pieces, for example rectangular surface pieces, include or delimit with at least one, preferably exactly one depression.
  • Individuals of such a package can preferably be along the lines of weakness such pieces of land are separated by hand as single or multiple portions.
  • Weakening lines are target dividing lines or target dividing areas along which the Material preferably separated by hand.
  • the lines of weakness are, for example mechanically, such as cutting, punching or scoring with knives, physically Way through e.g. Heat treatment, laser beams, electron beams, spark erosion, Dissolving or swelling by means of solvents or by chemical reaction, e.g. made by etching.
  • the lines of weakness can be completely or partially severed or by changing the material properties and by material removal weakened areas in a film.
  • the surface pieces are preferably each rectangular or preferably have one of the Rectangular shape-like geometry.
  • the blister pack contains two columns of Wells, so that at least one edge side of each patch containing a well each form a section of the blister pack edge.
  • the bottom parts of the present blister pack can be embossed, cast, deep-drawn or stretch-drawn or vacuum-shaped bottom parts made of metal, such as aluminum, made of plastic, plastic composites, such as plastic-paper composites or plastic-metal composites.
  • the plastics can be plastics coated with inorganic layers, in particular coated with SiO x .
  • Suitable plastics for floor parts include, for example, films and film composites Olefin-based thermoplastics, such as polyethylenes, polypropylenes or copolymers thereof, based on esters, such as polyethylene terephthalates, polyamides or halogen-containing plastics, such as polyvinyl chlorides or polyvinylidene chlorides or mixtures thereof.
  • the floor parts can also have a barrier layer against gases and vapors.
  • the barrier layer can be, for example, a metal foil embedded in a plastic composite, like an aluminum foil, or a ceramic arranged between two plastic layers or metallic layer. Ceramic and metallic layers can for example by evaporation of metals, oxides, or nitrides of aluminum, silicon and other metals and semi-metals in vacuum and depositing the substances a plastic carrier are generated.
  • the bottom part can also be made of or with cellulosic materials, such as paper, cardboard Cardboard, paper-containing molding compounds, etc. to be made or with the help of such materials be reinforced.
  • cellulosic materials such as paper, cardboard Cardboard, paper-containing molding compounds, etc.
  • the bottom part consists of or in a preferred embodiment contains polyvinyl chloride (PVC), PVC coated with polyvinylidene chloride (PVdC), cyclo-olefin copolymers (COC) or polychlorotrifluoroethylene (PCTFE).
  • PVC polyvinyl chloride
  • PVdC polyvinylidene chloride
  • COC cyclo-olefin copolymers
  • PCTFE polychlorotrifluoroethylene
  • Composite films are also preferred with PCTFE, especially with PCTFE and PVC.
  • the total thickness of the bottom part is, for example, 100-500 ⁇ m, especially 200-360 ⁇ m.
  • preferred film composites for floor elements contain or consist of a outer film made of PVC with a thickness of 60-100 ⁇ m, made of another outer film oriented polyamide (oPA) with a thickness of 25-30 ⁇ m and an intermediate one Aluminum foil with a thickness of 45-60 ⁇ m.
  • laminated foils can also be used an outer film made of polypropylene and an intermediate film made of aluminum be used.
  • the cover film can be pushed through the recess opening. It preferably consists of an aluminum foil, in particular an aluminum foil finished with a sealing layer. An aluminum foil of a thickness coated with heat seal lacquer is preferred from 15-30 ⁇ m, preferably from 18-22 ⁇ m.
  • the cover film can also contain or consist of plastics as described above have been described for the bottom part.
  • the plastic cover sheet can be made of sealable Be made of plastic or can wear a sealing layer.
  • sealable Be made of plastic or can wear a sealing layer.
  • Such plastics are e.g. obtained by using larger amounts of Fillers are added to the plastic.
  • the cover film can also be a film which is difficult or impossible to push through, for example Lines of weakness, such as perforations, which serve as tearing notches and allow the ingredients to be pressed through.
  • the cover sheet covers the bottom part, for example, partially or over the entire area and closes at least the recess openings.
  • the cover film is expediently connected to the base part by gluing or sealing.
  • Sealing layers, sealing foils can be used for sealing.
  • the sealing layer can be a thermoplastic, for example from the series of polyolefins or copolymers or terpolymers of ethylene, contain or consist thereof.
  • the Sealing layer can also contain an adhesion promoter or primer.
  • adhesives are phenolic resins, epoxy resins, cyanoacrylates, acrylates, modified acrylates and in particular adhesives based on polyurethane in question.
  • sealing wax For example, sealing waxes mentioned above can be used.
  • the blister pack can, for example, be a flat piece with a single depression contain.
  • the surface piece is further assigned a top layer, which in the rest position Push-through pack overlaid the cover film, for example superimposed snugly.
  • the bottom part of a blister pack can also contain several wells arranged uniformly in columns, the blister pack is divided into patches, each containing a depression, and each patch A top layer is expediently assigned, which in the rest position of the blister pack the cover film is superimposed, for example superimposed snugly.
  • the top layer can, for example, be a monofilm or a film or layer composite his. It has non-penetrable surface sections and provides a safety precaution so that the ingredients push through the cover film not carried out without additional, previous opening steps can be. Furthermore, the top layer expediently also has push-through surface sections on, the recess or the recess opening in the rest position of the blister pack lies over a surface section of the cover layer which cannot be pushed through.
  • the cover layer can be made from one of the above-mentioned materials suitable for the base part consist.
  • the top layer can also consist of the same material as the base part. Furthermore, the bottom part and the top layer can be made from a common material cut be made.
  • the top layer further advantageously contains materials made of cellulose, such as, for example Paper, cardboard, cardboard, paper-containing molding compounds etc.
  • cellulose-containing materials can also form composites with plastic layers or foils.
  • the cover layer is preferably made of cardboard, for example with one of the aforementioned Plastic is coated or laminated.
  • the coating occurs, for example, with Coating processes, such as extruder coating, dispersion coating, or painting processes.
  • the coating can be a lacquer, a wax, a paraffin or a hot melt Coating.
  • Laminating processes can also be used to create a To combine cardboard web with, for example, a prefabricated plastic film.
  • the top layer resists the usual on the non-push-through surface sections Penetration forces applied to remove the ingredients from a blister pack Need to become.
  • the resistance of the top layer can result from its tensile strength and / or their high elasticity.
  • the top layer expediently contains a rectangular surface part, with a certain Intrinsic rigidity, so that the surface part is constant without additional deformation forces Preserved flatness.
  • the cover layer is, for example at a first and a second, opposite side edge or side edge area of the area piece connected to it, for example via an adhesive connection or seal.
  • the connection is expedient as one over the entire Extension of the side edge extending adhesive or sealed seam is formed.
  • an adhesive For example, the above-mentioned adhesives are suitable.
  • a side edge area is to be understood as a surface area close to the side edge, for example on the concave side (side on which the recess is recessed) or convex side (Side on which the recess protrudes) of the surface piece or bottom part can lie.
  • the top layer and the bottom part close in fully opened state in cross-sectional view a, preferably rectangular, Cavity, each with a high side.
  • the fold lines are areas where material parts bend particularly well, however expediently cannot be separated.
  • the fold lines should not be done by hand or very difficult to separate, so that the blister pack is not mistakenly along the fold lines can be separated.
  • the top layer expediently has four fold lines, two of which, for example arranged on the two side edges of the surface piece at the edge of the connecting seam and a third fold line the length of a high page from the first page margin in the top layer is.
  • This third fold line is when you open the top layer in the direction the first side edge of the patch.
  • a fourth fold line can also lie in the top layer, the top layer in this variant over the second side edge of the patch extends by the length of the high side and the fold line the bending point the top layer is that with its retrograde end on the second side edge or side edge area of the patch is attached.
  • the fourth fold line can also be in the patch or bottom part itself, expediently by the length of a high side from the second side edge removed, lie, the top layer in this case not over the side edge of the patch extends.
  • the cover sheet is folded down, the patch itself runs along here folded over the fold line.
  • the parallelogram-like folding of the cover layer in the rest position of the blister pack is not possible, is expedient on at least one of the other, free side edges, i.e. the third and fourth side edge, or side edge areas the top layer via a, for example continuous, detachable connecting seam, subsequently separating connecting seam called, connected to the patch or the blister pack.
  • the tear-off connection seam can extend over the entire side edge of the surface piece or extend over partial areas thereof.
  • the severing joint is advantageous with a line of weakness, such as a perforation, which allows the separating connection seam with a or removed in a few simple steps from the push-through pack and thus the connection to solve.
  • the separating connection seam expediently fulfills the function of a first opening guarantee and secures the blister pack against shifting or folding the top layer and holds the top layer on the concave side of the blister pack.
  • she is for example a longitudinal adhesive or seal connection, for example of the above described nature.
  • connections can also be provided, which the top layer in the rest position of the blister pack, e.g. on the side of the patch or hold on to the blister pack.
  • the connection e.g. after peeling off a top layer can be opened.
  • the top layer lying on the concave side of the blister pack can partially or completely releasably attached to the blister pack by means of pressure sensitive adhesive. Before the depression opening is moved to an area that can be pushed through in the cover layer this adhesive connection must first be released.
  • a bottom part of a blister pack divided into patches, which several has evenly arranged depressions, can also with top layers of the above described type.
  • the surface pieces are mutually, for example, by lines of weakness, such as perforations separable delimited.
  • the lines of weakness form the side edges of the patches.
  • Each patch or group of patches, especially a row of surface pieces, for example a cover layer is assigned from a material blank, in the latter case the individual cover layers of such a group of surface pieces through lines of weakness against the top layers of the adjacent patches are delimited.
  • the cover layer is, for example, analogous to the embodiment described above on two opposite side edges of the patch with the latter connected, for example via an adhesive connection or sealing of those described above Art.
  • the designation of the elements of individual patches is analogous to the description above a blister pack with a single sheet.
  • the top layer has fold lines or bending zones of the type and position described above, wherein the fourth fold line advantageously in the patch at a distance the length of a high side from second side edge of the patch is removed.
  • each surface piece has, for example, at least one separating connection seam on.
  • This can e.g. at the side margin or margin area of the Blister pack, which is also the side edge of a column of sheets, be arranged.
  • there can also be between two columns of depressions or surface pieces a separating connection seam common to two adjacent surface pieces exist, which extends over the entire length of the column and over two lines of weakness, like perforations, on both sides of the adjacent, detachable surface pieces is delimited.
  • the area piece is preferably along the line of weakness or perforation from the remaining blister pack separated.
  • the area piece is preferably at the same time one between two columns of cut pieces arranged separating connection seam separated.
  • Disconnect seams are provided, which in turn mutually through a separable perforation are separated so that each surface piece including the separating connection seam from the rest Blister pack can be separated.
  • a blister pack can also have several columns of sheets in between have horizontal disconnect seams.
  • the surface piece for the release of the ingredient in the well i.e. for parallelogram-like folding the top layer, does not have to be separated from the remaining push-through pack.
  • the area that can be pushed through in the cover layer can, for example, be a surface section in the top layer, which is of low elasticity and poor stretch properties has, so that the top layer tears at this point with normal push-through forces.
  • the push-through surface section can, however, also be a recess in the cover layer.
  • the push-through surface section in the cover layer can also be attached a line of weakness, for example a perforation, are produced partially or completely includes a certain area.
  • a line of weakness for example a perforation
  • the size of the surface area that can be pushed through is dimensioned such that the content can be pushed through this. Furthermore, the push-through surface section should maximum so large that it is in the rest position of the blister pack if possible, or is only slightly covered by the recess opening.
  • the blister pack advantageously has appropriate locations on its outside Inscriptions and graphic elements, which among other things the individual Suggest opening steps.
  • the top layer can be designed in such a way that the push-through surface sections of the outside of the push-through pack Eye can be distinguished from the non-push-through surface sections.
  • the bottom parts are provided, for example, as continuous material with the ingredients filled and the cover film also brought to the floor parts as an endless material.
  • the covering film is covered over the entire area by sealing or gluing covering the recess openings connected to the bottom part.
  • the contents of a package according to the present invention can only be carried out after execution taken from a regulated sequence of opening handles, i.e. through the cover film pressed out of the recess. This is an almost impossible task for children however, opening such a package is relatively easy for older people to handle. In particular, moving the recess opening onto a surface section that can be pushed through in the top layer is a manipulation that is not carried out intuitively, but rather certain previous knowledge or the ability to read package instructions.
  • the blister pack 1 in Fig. 1a is a sheet containing a rectangular Bottom part 2 and a recess 3, formed.
  • the recess 3 and with it a contained therein Ingredient 17 is with a push-through cover film 6 made of a with a Lacquer coated aluminum foil, which is sealed to the bottom part 2, covered.
  • the bottom part 2 is both on the convex side (side on which the recess protrudes) as well as on the concave side (side on which the recess is deepened) with one a single blank cover layer 7 encased in plastic-coated cardboard, wherein the recess 3 protrudes through a recess in the top layer 7.
  • the Top layer 7 is on its concurrent side edge areas on the concave side the blister pack 1 is mutually glued or sealed, thereby closed envelope of the bottom part 2 is formed.
  • the packaging material of the blister pack 1 consists of around 1 ⁇ 4 of a blister film, for example plastic or a plastic-metal composite, from which among others the base part 2 is made up of around 3 ⁇ 4 made of plastic-coated cardboard, from which the top layer 7 is obtained, among other things.
  • the cover layer 7 is with the surface section lying on the convex side of the base part 2 connected to the base part 2 by means of gluing or sealing.
  • the top layer 7 has in Area of a first and second side edge 12, 12 'or side edge area of the bottom part 2 a first and second fold line 9, 9 '. Furthermore, the top layer 7 contains a third order the length of a high side 16 (see Fig. 1b) shifted from the first side edge 12 of the bottom part 2 Fold lines 9 "and a fourth also by the length of a high side 16 from second side edge 12 'of the bottom part 2 shifted fold line 9 "'.
  • the top layer 7 is sufficient on second side edge 12 'or side edge area by the length of a high side 16 over the second side edge 12 'of the base part 2, the bending point in the top layer 7 immediately fold line 9 "'.
  • a so-called Detachment joint seam 13 which is provided along a weakening line 10, such as Perforation can be separated from the blister pack (Fig. 1b).
  • the tear-off seam 13 is a flat connection between top layer 7 and bottom part 2.
  • the cover layer 7 can be formed of vertical edges 16 in the x-direction parallelogram-like with axes of rotation on the fold lines 9, 9 ', 9 ", 9"' can be opened and folded over to the other side (Fig. 1b, 1c, 1d).
  • the ingredient 17 can now through the cover sheet 6 and the top layer 7, i.e. through the push-through surface section 8 in the top layer 7, pushed through and the push-through pack 1 can be removed.
  • the top layer 7 can be on the concave side of the base part 2 limited and attached to this, for example by gluing or sealing.
  • the top layer 7 is in the region of a first side edge 12 the bottom part 2 overlapping area glued to the concave side of the bottom part 2 or sealed.
  • a first and second fold line 9, 9 'in the top layer 7 (Fig. 2a, 2b)
  • the first Fold line 9 is also the bending point of the top layer 7.
  • a third fold line 9 "is around the Length of a high side 16 (see FIG. 2b) away from the first side edge 12 in the top layer 7.
  • a fourth fold line 9 ′′ lies around the length of a high edge 16 from the second side edge 12 'away in the top layer 7.
  • the top layer 7 extends the length at the second side edge 12' a high side 16 beyond the second side edge 12 'with the fold line 9 "' at the same time Bending point of the top layer 7 is that with its retrograde end with a Bottom part 2 overlapping surface area in the region of the second side edge 12 ' Gluing or sealing is attached.
  • Fig. 2b the top layer 7 of the blister pack 1 is fully opened.
  • the recess opening 4 comes analogous to that described above Design variant to lie on a push-through surface in the top layer 7 (not shown in Fig. 3).
  • the top layer 7 is in the area of a first side edge 12 an area overlapping the base part 2 is glued to the concave side of the base part 2 or sealed.
  • 12 'of the bottom part 2 are two fold lines 9, 9 'in the top layer 7 (Fig. 3a), with both fold lines 9, 9' at the same time Bending points of the top layer 7 are.
  • a third fold line 9 "lies around the length of one High side 16 (see FIG. 3b) removed from the first side edge 12 in the top layer 7.
  • a fourth fold line 9 "'is the length of a high side 16' from the second side edge 12 ' in the bottom part 2.
  • the top layer 7 does not extend beyond the second side edge 12 ', but has its bending point on both sides in the area of the side edges 12, 12 '.
  • the top layer 7 of the blister pack 1 is completely opened.
  • the in the area of second side edge 12 'arranged high side 16' is by a bent portion of the bottom part 2 with cover film 6 sealed thereon.
  • the recess opening 4 comes analogous to the above embodiment to lie on a surface that can be pushed through in the top layer 7 (not shown in FIG Fig. 3).
  • the second variant is particularly suitable for push-through packs 1 or base parts 2 with a plurality of depressions 3 (Fig. 4).
  • the bottom part 2 is here in surface pieces 5 divided, with each surface piece 5 is assigned a recess 3.
  • the bottom part 2 comprises, for example, two columns 14 of depressions 3 or surface pieces 5.
  • Each Surface piece 5 has separating connection seams 13 on both sides, with two in the middle Columns 14 two separating connection seams, each associated with an adjacent area piece 5 13 run, which delimit each other by a line of weakness 10 '.

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  1. Emballage (1) à libération par enfoncement, comprenant une partie de fond (2), constituée d'au moins un élément de surface (5) et dotée d'au moins un renfoncement (3), un film de protection (6) libérable par enfoncement, fixé sur la partie de fond (2) et recouvrant au moins l'ouverture (4) du renfoncement (3), et une couche de recouvrement (7) qui est superposée au film de protection (6) sur son côté extérieur, la couche de recouvrement (7) contenant des parties de surface libérables par enfoncement et des parties de surface non libérables par enfoncement, le renfoncement (3), dans la position de repos de l'emballage (1) à libération par enfoncement, se trouvant au moins partiellement au-dessus d'une partie de surface non libérable par enfoncement de la couche de recouvrement (7), et des moyens étant disposés pour libérer une substance se trouvant dans le renfoncement (3), par lesquels l'ouverture (4) du renfoncement peut, par un mouvement effectué par rapport à la couche de recouvrement (7), être amenée au-dessus d'une partie de surface libérable par enfoncement (8) de la couche de recouvrement (7), de sorte que le contenu peut être pressé à travers le film de protection (6) et la partie de surface libérable par enfoncement (8) de la couche de recouvrement (7),
    caractérisé en ce que la couche de recouvrement (7) est assemblée à la partie de fond (2) sur deux bords latéraux opposés (12, 12') ou régions de bords latéraux opposés de l'élément de surface (5), et au moins la couche de recouvrement (7), de préférence la couche de recouvrement (7) et l'élément de surface (5), contiennent des lignes de pliage (9, 9', 9", 9''') au niveau desquelles la couche de recouvrement (7) peut être relevée et rabattue à la manière d'un parallélogramme articulé par un mouvement par rapport à l'élément de surface (5), de sorte que l'ouverture (4) du renfoncement, lors du rabattement, vient se placer sur une partie de surface libérable par enfoncement (8) de la couche de recouvrement (7).
  2. Emballage à libération par enfoncement selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que l'emballage (1) à libération par enfoncement est constitué d'un élément de surface (5) doté d'un renfoncement (3) ou est divisé en plusieurs éléments de surface (5), de préférence régulièrement disposés, dotés chacun d'un renfoncement (3), une couche de recouvrement (7), constituée de préférence d'une découpe de matériau, étant associée à chaque élément de surface (5) ou à un groupe d'éléments de surface (5), et les éléments de surface (5) étant délimités entre eux au moyen de lignes d'affaiblissement (10') et des moyens étant prévus pour que chaque renfoncement (3) puisse être individuellement déplacé au-dessus de la partie de surface libérable par enfoncement (8) de la couche de recouvrement (7).
  3. Emballage à libération par enfoncement selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la couche de recouvrement (7) forme un assemblage (13) avec la partie de fond (2) au moins sur un bord latéral (12) ou une région de bord latéral, de sorte que le renfoncement (3) ne peut être déplacé par rapport à la couche de recouvrement (7) qu'après avoir détaché ou retiré l'assemblage (13).
  4. Emballage à libération par enfoncement selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la couche de recouvrement (7) peut, au niveau des lignes de pliage (9, 9', 9", 9'''), être relevée à la manière d'un parallélogramme articulé par un mouvement par rapport à l'élément de surface (5), et la couche de recouvrement (7) et l'élément de surface (5) délimitent en vue en coupe transversale un espace vide dans la position totalement relevée, et l'ouverture (4) du renfoncement vient, lors du rabattement sur l'autre côté, se placer sur une partie de surface libérable par enfoncement de la couche de recouvrement (7).
  5. Emballage à libération par enfoncement selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce qu'une première et une deuxième lignes de pliage (9, 9') sont disposées respectivement sur un premier bord latéral (12) ou région de bord latéral et un deuxième bord latéral (12') - ou région de bord latéral -, opposé au premier, de la couche de recouvrement (7) ou de la partie de fond (2), et une troisième et une quatrième lignes de pliage (9", 9''') se trouvent, soit toutes deux dans la couche de recouvrement (7), soit l'une dans la couche de recouvrement (7) et l'autre dans la partie de fond (2), en étant respectivement éloignées du premier ou deuxième bord latéral (12, 12') de la longueur d'un côté vertical (16, 16').
  6. Emballage à libération par enfoncement selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que l'assemblage (13) est un assemblage par collage ou par scellement et est une zone de bord latéral de l'élément de surface qui est délimitée par une ligne d'affaiblissement (10), de préférence une perforation, et qui peut être détachée le long de la ligne d'affaiblissement.
  7. Emballage à libération par enfoncement selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la partie de surface libérable par enfoncement (8) de la couche de recouvrement (7) est une partie de surface entourée partiellement ou totalement par une ligne d'affaiblissement (10) - de préférence une perforation -, un évidement ou une partie de surface pourvue d'un film, d'une couche ou d'un assemblage de films ou de couches libérable par enfoncement.
  8. Emballage à libération par enfoncement selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le film de protection (6) est constitué d'un film d'aluminium d'une épaisseur de 15-30 µm, revêtu de laque de scellement à chaud.
  9. Emballage à libération par enfoncement selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la partie de fond (2) et/ou la couche de recouvrement (7) sont constituées d'un assemblage de films avec un film extérieur en PVC d'une épaisseur de 60-100 µm, un autre film extérieur en polyamide orienté (oPA) d'une épaisseur de 25-30 µm et un film intermédiaire en aluminium d'une épaisseur de 45-60 µm.
  10. Utilisation d'emballages (1) à libération par enfoncement selon la revendication 1 comme emballages de médicaments.
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JP2001501532A JP2003501325A (ja) 1999-06-02 2000-05-13 ブリスタ包装
CA002375184A CA2375184A1 (fr) 1999-06-02 2000-05-13 Emballage multialveolaire
AU55240/00A AU5524000A (en) 1999-06-02 2000-05-13 Blister package
PCT/EP2000/004320 WO2000075043A1 (fr) 1999-06-02 2000-05-13 Emballage multialveolaire
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