Patent ID: 6212858
Filing Date: 2001-04-10
Classification: B65B,B65D

Abstract:
Process for manufacturing blister packs, which comprises:providing strip shaped packaging material including a base part and a lid part connected to the base part, wherein the base part includes a plurality of preformed, permanently shaped base recesses each of which are surrounded by shoulders, and wherein said lid part includes a plurality of preformed, permanently shaped lid recesses each of which are surrounded by shoulders;filling the recesses in the base part with contents in the form of at least one of pills, coated pills, tablets, capsules, soft gelatine capsules, ampoules, foodstuffs and technical articles;covering the base part with said lid part so that the shoulders of the base and lid parts touch each other;joining together the touching shoulders of the base and lid parts so that each recess in the base part is covered over by a recess in the lid part; andforming a blister pack with compartments therein by said covering over of the recesses in the base part by the recesses in the lid part, wherein each compartment is surrounded by the touching shoulders of the base and lid part, and including the step of providing that the compartments are larger than the individual recesses in the base part and are also larger than the individual recesses in the lid part, and wherein the contents are accommodated in the compartments.