Carded blister pack

Abstract

A blister pack ( 20 ) folded wallet has a mounting card ( 12 ), with a [hinged] spine segment ( 15 ), and an adhesive edge strip ( 16 ). Overlaid by a pre-formed blister pack ( 11 ), for mutual (edge) entrainment; a dedicated assembly machine entrains mounting cards and blister packs stored in respective magazines. Child resistance is available through cover latching and/or paper reinforced foil laminate ( 161 ), with through apertures ( 166 ) and perforations ( 163, 165 ) for selective localised paper patch ( 169 ) removal, over individual blister pockets ( 168 ).

1 . A carded blister pack, comprising a mutually entrained blister pack, of multiple blister pockets, and mounting card; 
 with a common edge bonding joint, defining a fold spine, about which the card can fold, to overlie the blister pack, as a hinged cover;    a foil rupture layer over the blister pockets; a paper backing surmounting the foil;    prise 'n-peel access to blister pocket margins, for local removal of paper backing, to a foil rupture layer, over individual pockets.    
     
     
         2 . {adhesive edge strip} A carded blister pack, as claimed in  claim 1 , bonded by an adhesive edge strip, upon either one, or both, card and blister.  
     
     
         3 . {adhesive bonding} A carded blister pack, as claimed in  claim 1 , bonded with adhesive, selected from the group comprising (a) and/or (b) and/or (c), where 
 (a) (airless) contact,    (b) twin chemically interactive component curing,    (c) hot melt.    
     
     
         4 . {hinged spine} A carded blister pack, as claimed in  claim 1 , comprising a mounting card, with a hinged spine, and an adhesive portion, overlaid by a pre-formed blister pack, configured to allow a card leaf or panel to fold over, upon the blister pack, as a [hinged] protective cover.  
     
     
         5 . {spine crease} A carded blister pack, as claimed in  claim 1 , including a crease or fold line, between spine (segment) and adhesive portion, to facilitate card over-turn about the spine, to overlie the blister pack.  
     
     
         6 . {localised weakening} A carded blister pack, as claimed in  claim 1 , including, in the card body, a localised weakening, perforation or severance line, adjacent the spine, to facilitate mutual severance and separation, of card and blister.  
     
     
         7 . {book jacket} A carded blister pack, as claimed in  claim 1 , with a mounting card configured as a jacket, having mutually hinged panels or leafs, disposed about an intervening spine, at opposite sides of the blister pack.  
     
     
         8 . {multiple spines} A carded blister pack, as claimed in  claim 1 , incorporating multiple spines, or spine segments.  
     
     
         9 . {concertina folded spines} A carded blister pack, as claimed in  claim 1 , incorporating a concertina-folded, multiple spine, or segmented spine.  
     
     
         10 . {staggered spines} A carded blister pack, as claimed in  claim 1 , with staggered, or mutually-offset, multiple spine, or spine segment, folds.  
     
     
         11 . {multiple blisters upon common spine} A carded blister pack, as claimed in  claim 1 , with multiple blister packs, as leaves upon a common spine.  
     
     
         12 . {differential blisters upon common spine} A carded blister pack, as claimed in  claim 1 , with differential blister packs, as leaves upon a common single spine, or multiple spines.  
     
     
         13 . {paper backed foil} A carded blister pack, as claimed in  claim 1 , including a paper backed foil, blister backing layer.  
     
     
         14 . {perforated paper backing} A carded blister pack, as claimed in  claim 1 , including a paper-backed foil blister backing layer, with perforations, aligned with the margins of blisters, to facilitate identification, and local separation from the foil, of a paper backing layer portion, over a designated blister pocket.  
     
     
         15 . {cover portions} A carded blister pack, as claimed in  claim 1 , with cover portions along opposite edges, and a mechanical interlock or latch, such as a slot and inter-fitting profiled tab, operative therebetween, once cover portions are folded to overlie the blister; a local, tear-of, tab upon one cover portion, allowing mutual release of cover portions.  
     
     
         16 . {tear-off severance tab} A carded blister pack, as claimed in  claim 1 , with mutual entrainment of card and blister, along opposite edges, with a tear-off severance tab, allowing release of one edge, creating a hinged cover, about the edge still entrained.  
     
     
         17 . {tear-off edge tab & residual cover} A carded blister pack, as claimed in  claim 1 , with mutual entrainment of card and blister, along four successive side edges, featuring a tear-off release tab, juxtaposed with one edge, to allow part-separation of a card edge, and creation of a residual hinged cover, upon end closure flaps, about residual opposite edges.  
     
     
         18 . {carded blister pack assembly machine} A machine for assembly of carded blister packs, as claimed in  claim 1 , with a mounting card storage magazine, and a blister pack storage magazine, a conveyor for transferring mounting cards, discharged individually in succession from the mounting card storage magazine, through an intervening adhesive application station, into juxtaposition with individual blister packs, discharged individually in succession, from the blister pack storage magazine.  
     
     
         19 . {free paper edge} A carded blister pack, comprising a mutually entrained blister pack, of multiple blister pockets, and a mounting card; 
 with a common edge bonding joint, defining a fold spine, about which the card can fold, to overlie the blister pack, as a hinged cover;    a toil rupture layer, disposed over the blister pack;    a paper backing, surmounting the foil over blister pockets, to inhibit foil rupture;    locally free paper backing edge, at or adjacent blister pocket margins,    for local prise 'n-peel removal of paper backing, to expose an underlying foil rupture layer, over individual pockets,    allowing foil rupture and access to pocket contents.    
     
     
         20 . {exposed detached paper edge} A carded blister pack, comprising a mutually entrained blister pack of multiple blister pockets, and a mounting card; 
 with a common edge bonding joint, defining a fold spine, about which the card can fold, to overlie the blister pack, as a hinged cover;    a foil rupture layer over the blister pack, a paper backing attached to the foil upon blister pockets,    an array of perforations and/or cuts, through the paper overlay, separating and bounding individual blister pockets;    an accessible edge to a region of paper (locally) detached from the foil underlay,    for local prise 'n-peel removal of paper backing, to a foil rupture layer, over individual pockets,    and access to pocket contents, by local foil rupture.    
     
     
         21 . {exposed paper edge & slit} A carded blister pack, comprising a mutually entrained blister pack of multiple blister pockets, and a mounting card; 
 with a common edge bonding joint, defining a fold spine, about which the card can fold, to overlie the blister pack, as a hinged cover;  
 a foil rupture layer over the blister pack, a paper backing overlying and attached to the foil upon blister pockets;  
 perforations and/or cuts through the paper overlay, to differentiate and bound individual blister pockets;  
 a region of local detachment of paper from foil underlay,  
 a slit in the detached paper, to create a free paper access edge, at a selected blister pocket margin, in turn to allow edge prise 'n-peel removal of local paper overlay, and underlying foil rupture, for access to contents of a selected pocket.