Patent ID: 9241872
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: A61J,B65B,G01N,G07C

Claim Text:
1. A containment system for a plurality of products that are to be accessed in a predetermined timed sequence, the containment system comprising: a substrate with a plurality of product compartments, each of said product compartments having a volume sufficient to receive at least one of a plurality of products, said substrate further including a plurality of atmospheric gas conduits each leading from one of the product compartments to a gas sensitive indicator window chamber; a plurality of gas sensitive indicators having a gas reactive material that changes appearance at a predetermined time after exposure to ambient air, said gas sensitive indicators being located within a gas sensitive indicator window chamber; and a plurality of gas seals each sealing one of the plurality of the product compartments against atmospheric gases so that disrupting the gas seal to access a product in the product compartment allows atmospheric gas to enter the product compartment and from there to flow through one of the plurality of atmospheric gas conduits to expose at least one of the gas sensitive indicators, the one gas sensitive indicator exposed to ambient air being arranged to change appearance in a manner that indicates at least one next product in the predetermined sequence to be accessed after the predetermined time after exposure has elapsed.