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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2009
Ryen Sack, Loves Park, IL (US);
Curtis A. Knutson, Loves Park, IL (US);
Thomas Moyer, Freeport, IL (US);
Tyler Theis, St. Johns, MI (US);
Richard M. Bowen, Jr., Auburn, AL (US);
John T. Peterson, Rockford, IL (US);
Ryen Sack, Loves Park, IL (US);
Curtis A. Knutson, Loves Park, IL (US);
Thomas Moyer, Freeport, IL (US);
Tyler Theis, St. Johns, MI (US);
Richard M. Bowen, Jr., Auburn, AL (US);
John T. Peterson, Rockford, IL (US);
Anderson Packaging, Inc., Rockford, IL (US);
Abstract
A child-resistant and senior-friendly package comprising one or more blister cards housed within a hollow molded plastic sleeve is provided. The sleeve is assembled from a pair of identical molded plastic body sections. Each body section has a latch and an unlocking tab and the blister card has a latch-catcher for cooperating with the latch to automatically lock the blister card in a storage position within the sleeve. The sleeve has a pair of opposite spaced-apart tabs in the side edges thereof that must be simultaneously pressed to unlatch the latches from the latch-catchers to permit the blister card to be slid from the storage position to a dispensing position. When pressed, the tabs flex the blister card off adjacent latches. An embodiment including a pair of separate blister cards is provided in which the blister cards are dispensed through opposite dispensing ends of the sleeve.