Vial filling, holding and serving tray arrangement and method
US4867315A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 6, 1988 |
| Grant date | Sep 19, 1989 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 6, 2008 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S206/82
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
An invertable tray/vial package assembly is disclosed formed of separable interlockably connected top and bottom vial holding and locating tray sections which tray enables and effects holding and spatial positioning of a plurality of vials therein for selective external access to the vials at their respective opposite fluid content filling ends and fluid serving ends, for ease of vial filling, closing, handling, labeling and visual identification of vial contents, and for dispensing of the vials and serving the fill content of a vial to a patient. The tray has vial holding and spatially positioning pockets formed on one of its separable sections, with fluid-fill enabling openings formed in the bottom end of each of the pockets, and which are effectively registrable with closeable fill openings of vials disposed therein. The serving mouth ends of the vials are sealed with a peelably removable sealing strip which joins a column of vials together with tear perforations therebetween, and onto which sealing strip is secured a correspondingly tear-perforated labeling strip after filling of the vials and closure of the fill end, of the vials filling and labeling of the vials without neces…
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