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Blister package opening method and apparatus

US4975015A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 7, 1989
Grant dateDec 4, 1990
Priority date
Expiry dateApr 7, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65B69/0033
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for opening defective blister packages to recover their contained product that include shifting an inverted blister package against a stationary knife to partly sever its blisters and then camming the partly severed blisters open to discharge the product.

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