Deblistering machine
CA 2226616 A1 · Owner: Birr, Geoffrey Charles · Inventors: Birr, Geoffrey Charles
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Solid dosage forms of pharmaceuticals, e.g. tablets may be removed from blister packs with a deblistering machine. The machine has a roller and a stationary plate. The roller has a longitudinal axis of rotation and means for rotating the roller about the axis. The roller has an inner core and a cover thereon with a non-slip surface. The stationary plate has at least as many slots as there are columns of blisters and each of the slots has a width parallel to the rotational axis of the roller, the width of each slot being at least as large as the width of a blister. Each of the slots has a length transverse to the slot's width and is at least as large as the length of a blister. The plate is …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed January 9, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended January 9, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 9, 2020.
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