Patent ID: 8024911

Claim:
Method for custom blister packing products in customized blister packs comprising a plurality of blisters arranged in accordance with customer requests, said method comprising: forming a blister web or a blister sheet comprising a plurality of rows of blisters, each row made up of more than one blister, said blister web or blister sheet having more blisters than desired by customers in a finished blister pack such that said blister web or blister sheet is configured for storage in a configuration not conforming to the final size of a blister pack for distribution to a consumer before receiving a customer request with regard to a desired number of rows of blisters and number of blisters per row to be contained in a customized blister pack to be formed from said blister web or blister sheet for distribution to a consumer; filling each of said blisters with at least one of said products and sealing said products in said blisters; after filling and sealing said blisters, intermediate storing of said blister web or blister sheet; waiting to receive a customer request with regard to number of rows of blisters and blisters per row to be contained in a customized blister pack to be formed from said blister web or blister sheet that is in intermediate storage; and upon receipt of said customer request, removing said blister web or blister sheet from intermediate storage; custom cutting said blister web or blister sheet that has been removed from intermediate storage to contain the number of rows of blisters and number of blisters per row according to said customer request to form from said blister web or blister sheet more than one customized blister pack having a predetermined number of blisters in each customized blister pack according to said customer request, said predetermined number being smaller than the number of blisters in said blister web or blister sheet while in storage; intermediate storing of any portion of said blister web or blister sheet remaining after cutting a customized blister pack therefrom for later custom forming of at least one additional customized blister pack therefrom; wherein: said customized blister pack has at least one blister containing at least one product for distribution to a consumer, and has fewer blisters than in the blister web or blister sheet that has been removed from intermediate storage and from which said customized blister pack has been cut; and said intermediate storing of said blister web or blister sheet is chronologically separate from and occurs before said custom cutting of said blister web or blister sheet into customized blister packs such that said custom cutting of customized blister packs is not performed sequentially after said packaging of said products in blisters.