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Packaging method for contact lenses

US5983608A · kind A · utility

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6Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJun 24, 1998
Grant dateNov 16, 1999
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Expiry dateJun 24, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S206/82
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A base member for a blister package for the containment of a contact lens includes a planar flange extending outwardly about a cavity for housing the contact lens. Proximate the peripheral edge of the flange, there is formed a continuous groove into which there is pressed the material of a flexible cover sheet of the blister package so as to clampingly engage the base member.

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