Patent ID: 8328018
Filing Date: 2012-12-11
Classification: A61J,B65D

Abstract:
1. A child-resistant carded package or package component, comprising: a front card bonded to a separate rear card with a blister card captured therebetween; said blister card having a face from which a plurality of separate upstanding hollow blister compartments project; said front card extending over said face of said blister card and including a series of openings registering with said blister compartments such that said blister compartments extend through said openings of said front card; said rear card extending over an opposite face of said blister card and being a laminate including a tear-resistant layer bonded to a further layer made of a different material than said tear-resistant layer, said tear-resistant layer of said laminate extending adjacent said blister card with said further layer extending remote from said blister card relative to said tear-resistant layer and providing an exposed surface of said rear card; said rear card including perforations defining break-away chads aligned behind said blister compartments of said blister card; each of said break-away chads including a first layer made of said tear-resistant layer and a second layer bonded to said first layer and made of said further layer; said second layer of each of said chads being entirely disconnected and severed from a surrounding portion of said further layer of said laminate of said rear card by a continuous perforation and only remaining attached to said rear card by being bonded to said first layer of said chad; and said first layer of each of said chads interconnecting to a surrounded portion of said tear-resistant layer of said laminate of said rear card via lands extending between perforations; whereby a force required to fracture at least one of said lands defines a minimum force required to dispense an item contained in one of said blister compartments through said rear card.