Patent ID: 7472526
Filing Date: 2009-01-06
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
1. A method for packaging a plurality of unit doses of at least one pharmaceutical product in the form of a plurality of objects, the method comprising placing the plurality of objects on a top surface of a planar member which defines an array of recesses, each of the recesses being sized and configured so that substantially all of one of the plurality of objects may fit therein, sweeping at least some of the plurality of objects across the top surface to ensure that each of the recesses has received substantially all of a respective one of the objects, providing a vacuum to the array of recesses to retain the respective one of the objects in each respective recess, placing in contact with, or at least in close proximity to, the top surface a sheet which forms an array of blister-like chambers for receiving at least a portion of the plurality of objects, the array of recesses of the top surface being substantially aligned with and opening into the blister-like chambers of the sheet, and transferring each of the objects to be transferred from its respective recess to a corresponding blister-like chamber of the sheet upon removing the vacuum.