Packaging apparatus
CA 2307910 A1 · Owner: Electro-Mec (Reading) Ltd · Inventors: Garwood, Ronald George; Ellis, Michael William; Hansford, Brian Keith
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Apparatus for feeding items of pharmaceutical product to pockets in a continuously, travelling web for the production of blister packs includes a plurality of product delivery, chutes mounted on a moving carriage including delivery gates for releasing product, from the delivery chutes. The carriage cycles the delivery chutes from a stationary, position under metering chutes where product is transferred into the delivery chutes, accelerating and lowering them into alignment with pockets in the travelling web, where, product is released, and raising and returning the delivery chutes to the said stationary, position to repeat the cycle.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed May 9, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended May 9, 2020.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by May 9, 2022.
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