Patent ID: 6896138

Claim:
A blister pack comprising: a main sheet unitarily formed with an array of pockets each dimensioned to receive a respective object; a frangible foil overlying a front face of the sheet and closing the pockets, whereby objects in the pockets are hermetically sealed therein by the foil; a pair of guides unitarily formed with the main sheet and flanking the array of pockets; a protective panel having an array of holes substantially identical to the array of pockets, overlying the foil, and slidable in a direction in the guides between a rest position with the holes at least partially offset from the pockets and the panel blocking the pockets and a dispensing position with the holes aligned with the pockets, whereby in the dispensing position the objects can be pressed from the pockets through the foil and holes; and a spring web unitarily formed with the sheet and with the panel and urging the panel into the rest position.