Package for blister pack strips

Abstract

A package for blister pack strips comprises a blister guide ( 11 ), a strip guide ( 12 ), a back cover ( 3 ) having a depression ( 10 ) accommodating blisters projecting through the blister guide ( 11 ), and a front cover ( 8 ). The package is made by folding a rectangular sheet ( 1 ) having appropriate cut outs forming blister guides ( 11 ) and strip guides ( 12 ) and being by folding lines ( 5, 7, 9 ) divided into three outer zones comprising an edge zone forming the front cover ( 8 ), an intermediary zone forming the strip guides ( 12 ), and an inner zone forming the blister guides ( 11 ), and a fourth zone forming the back cover ( 3 ).

We claim:  
     
         1 . A package for blister pack strips having a certain width and which carries at their one end a blister having a certain diameter perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the strip, characterised in that it comprised comprises: 
 a blister guide, having a front and a rear side and having cut outs each with a breadth corresponding to a diameter of a blister;    a strip guide having a front and a rear side and having cut outs each with a breadth corresponding to the breadth of a strip and being by its rear side fixed to the front side of the blister guide so that strips can be located in the cut outs of the strip guide with their blisters projecting into and through the cut outs of the blister guide;    a back cover fixed to the rear side of the blister guide and having a depression accommodating the blisters projecting through the blister guide; and    a front cover fixed to the front side of the strip guide.    
     
     
         2 . A package according to  claim 1 , characterised in that the back cover is formed by a sheet which has at both its ends a depression and over this depression a blister strip holder comprising, a blister guide, a strip guide, and a cover, the back cover being provided with central folding lines parallel with the blister strip holders allowing said common back sheet to be folded to form a booklet shaped folder with the covers of the two blister strip holders abutting each other.  
     
     
         3 . A package according to  claim 2 , characterised in that it is manufactured from one sheet which is provided with the necessary depression and cut outs to form the holders by folding and gluing.  
     
     
         4 . The package according to  claim 3 , wherein a blank sheet for the manufacturing of a package according to  claim 3 , comprises a rectangular sheet having a central folding line parallel with a short side of the rectangle and dividing the rectangle into two symmetric parts each having four zones defined by folding lines parallel with the a short side of the rectangle, three outer zones having the same width, and a broader fourth zone adjacent to the central folding line, the three outer zones comprising an edge zone having no cut outs, an intermediary zone having strip guide cut outs, and an inner zone having blister guide cut outs, the strip guide cut outs beginning at a first folding line defining the transition between the intermediary zone and the inner zone and ending a first distance from a second folding line defining the transition between the middle zone and the edge zone, and the blister guide cut outs beginning at the first folding line and ending a second distance from a third folding line defining the transition between the inner zone and the fourth zone, the fourth zone being provided with a depression parallel with the folding lines in a third distance from the third folding line, the third distance being smaller than the second distance and the depression having a width so that the sum of the third distance and the width of the depression is smaller than the width of each of the three outer zones