Mouthguard packaging
CA 2028475 C · Owner: Adell, Michael · Inventors: Adell, Loren S.; Adell, Michael
Overview
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A mouthguard that has an integral tethering strap is packaged by forming a loop at the distal end of the strap and then folding the strap back over the front of the U-shaped mouthguard body so as to nest the loop within the U-shaped body. The mouthguard is then ensealed in a transparent plastic clamshell enclosure. The enclosure is assembled to a paperboard carrier which contains cut-outs that area symmetrical about a line of folding for a flap portion of the carrier. When the flap is folded back onto the carrier, the margin of the clamshell is trapped. A second flap opposite the first one is also folded back onto the same side of the carrier as the first flap. The opposing faces of this …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed October 24, 1990 and granted January 8, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 24, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 24, 2012.
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