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Child-Resistant Packaging

20220127054 · 2022-04-28

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    Cpc classification

    International classification

    Abstract

    Child-resistant packaging (1), which comprises at least one blister card (10), known per se, with a carrier film (20) and a cover film (30), wherein the carrier film (20) forms, with at least one blister cavity (25) for receiving a packing product (40), a top side (11) of the blister card (10), and the cover film (30) is connected extensively to the carrier film (20), closes the blister cavity (25) filled with the packing product (40), and forms an underside (12), located opposite the top side (11), of the blister card (10). At least one backing card (50) is fastened in a movable manner at two opposite side edges (15, 16) or peripheral portions (17, 18) of the blister card (10), said backing card (50) resting in a planar manner against the underside (12) of the blister card (10) in a securing position (70) and in the process securing the enclosed packing product (40) against unintentional removal, wherein the backing card (50) is transferable reversibly from the securing position (70) into a removal position (80) by means of external force application (90) by mirror-inverted compression (91, 92) of two mutually opposite packaging portions (5, 6), wherein, during the external force application (90), the backing card (50) is spaced apart from the underside (12) of the blister card (10), forming a packaging interior (100), and the packing product (40) can be released into and removed from the packaging interior (100) by pushing through (35) the cover film (30).

    Claims

    1. A child-resistant medicinal product packaging, comprising: at least one blister card (10), wherein the blister card (10) comprises two films, of which one film is configured as a carrier film (20) with at least one blister cavity (25) for receiving packing product (40) and forms a top side (11) of the blister card (10), and the other film is configured as a push-through cover film (30), wherein the cover film (30) at least in sections is connected extensively to the carrier film (20) leaving open the at least one blister cavity (25), and at least in sections forms an underside (12) of the blister card (10) opposite the top side (11) and the cover film (30) closes the at least one blister cavity (25) filled with packing product (40), wherein at least one backing card (50) is fastened in a movable manner at two opposite side edges (15, 16) or at two opposite peripheral portions (17, 18) of the blister card (10) and this backing card (50) in a securing position is configured to rest at least in sections in a planar manner on the underside (12) of the blister card (10) and in so doing to secure the enclosed packing material (40) against unintentional removal and against pushing through (35) of the cover film (30), wherein the backing card (50) can be transferred reversibly from the securing position (70) into a removal position (80) by means of an external force application (90) by mirror-inverted compression (91, 92) of two mutually opposite and spaced apart (7, 8) packaging portions (5, 6) which are movably coupled to one another, wherein the movement transition between the securing position (70) in which no external application of force is made to the spaced-apart (7, 8) packaging portions (5, 6) and the removal position (80) fixed by external application of force (90) is a reversible to-and-fro movement, wherein the carrier film (20) has at least one fold edge (22) and/or at least one perforation (23) as weakening line (23) in order to be folded, flip or curved along this defined fold edge (22) and/or weakening line (23), and wherein during the removal position (80) fixed by external application of force (90), the at least one backing card (50) is spaced apart from the underside (12) of the blister card (10) forming a packaging interior (100) having at least one packing product removal opening (110) wherein in the removal position (80) the packing product (40) can be released by pushing through (35) the cover film (30) into the packaging interior (100) and removed from the packaging interior (100) through the at least one packing product removal opening (110).

    2. The packaging of claim 1, wherein the at least one backing card (50) comprises a carrier film (55) or is formed from a carrier film (55).

    3. The packaging of claim 1, wherein the at least one blister card (10) and the at least one backing card (50) are each configured in the form of rectangles, wherein the backing card (50) is fastened in each case on two opposite side edges (15, 16) or on two opposite peripheral portions (17, 18) of the long sides (13) of the blister card (10).

    4. The packaging of claim 1, wherein the at least one backing card (50) is movably fastened by connecting tabs (65).

    5. The packaging of claim 1, wherein at least one inscription tab (120) is fastened to the blister card (10) and/or the backing card (50).

    6. The packaging of claim 5, wherein the at least one inscription tab (120) is fastened at a side edge (15, 16) or at a peripheral portion (17, 18) of the blister card (10) and projects over the blister card (10).

    7. The packaging of claim 1, wherein the side of the packaging interior (100) opposite a packing product removal opening (110) can be closed with a closure tab (60).

    8. The packaging of claim 1, wherein the at least one packing product removal opening (110) of the packaging interior (100) can be closed with a closure tab (60).

    9. The packaging of claim 1, wherein the at least one backing card (50) is a further blister card (56) with (La carrier film (55) with at least one blister cavity (57) for receiving packing product (40) and a cover film (58), wherein the at least one further blister card (56) is arranged so that its carrier film (55) forms an outer surface (2) of the packaging (1) and its cover film (58) is oriented towards the packaging interior (100).

    10. The packaging of claim 9, wherein in the securing position (70) the blister cavities (25, 57) filled with packing product (40) of two blister cards (10, 56) resting on one another are arranged congruently above one another.

    11. The packaging of claim 9, wherein in the securing position (70) the blister cavities (25, 27) filled with packing product (40) of two blister cards (10, 56) resting on one another are each arranged offset with respect to one another.

    12. The packaging of claim 1, wherein the packaging (1) is configured to be cushion-shaped, wherein the two outer surfaces (2) of the packaging (1) are either formed by a first blister card (1) and a further blister card (56) with packing product (40) filled in blister cavities (25, 57) or alternatively by one blister card (10) and by an opposite backing card (50) without packing product, which are interconnected at two opposite side edges (15, 16) of the blister card (10), wherein the side edges (15, 16) form the long sides (3) of the packaging (1), and mirror-inverted overlapping closure tabs (60) are fastened on the mutually opposite narrow sides (14) of the blister cards (10, 56) in each case.

    13. The packaging of claim 1, wherein the packaging (1) is configured as a straight prism with an even number of outer surfaces (2), wherein the outer surfaces (2) are formed by one or more blister cards (10, 56) with packing product (40) filled in blister cavities (25, 57) or alternatively by at least one blister card (56) and by one or more backing cards (50) without packing product which are connected at their opposite side edges (15, 16) arranged next to one another and form the long sides (3) of the packaging (1).

    14. The packaging of claim 1, wherein a distance (7) between mutually opposite packaging portions (5, 6) in the securing position (70) is greater than the distance (8) between the same mutually opposite packaging portions (5, 6) in the removal position (80).

    15. The packaging of claim 1, wherein the at least one backing card (50) is produced from a section of the carrier film (20) of the blister card (10) and the carrier films (20, 55) of the blister card (10) and the backing card (50) are integrally connected to one another.

    16. The packaging of claim 1, wherein the packing product (40) comprises a pharmaceutical active substance formulation.

    17. The packaging of claim 16, wherein the pharmaceutical active substance formulation is a tablet (41).

    18. The packaging of claim 4, wherein the at least one backing card (50) is movably fastened by a plurality of serially arranged connecting webs at two opposite peripheral portions (17, 18) of the blister card (10).

    19. The packaging of claim 9, wherein the packing product (40) comprises a pharmaceutical active substance formulation.

    20. The packaging of claim 19, wherein the pharmaceutical active substance formulation is a tablet (41).

    Description

    [0066] Further details, features and advantages of the invention are obtained from the following explanation of exemplary embodiments of the packagings according to the invention for medicinal products shown schematically in the drawings. In the drawings:

    [0067] FIG. 1 shows in an oblique view from the front a first embodiment of a packaging according to the invention in cushion form, wherein the packaging in the diagram on the packaging top side shows a blister card with blister cavities for receiving packing product, which is protected by a backing card on the packaging underside forming a packaging interior;

    [0068] FIG. 2A shows in a sectional view from the side the narrow side of a second embodiment of a packaging according to the invention in cushion form, wherein in this packaging a blister card with blister cavities for receiving packing product is arranged on the packaging top side and a backing card without blister cavities is provided on the packaging underside, which backing card rests on the blister card in a securing position of the packaging;

    [0069] FIG. 2B shows in a sectional view from the side the narrow side of the structure of this packaging with a blister card illustrated in FIG. 1, wherein in this packaging a blister card with blister cavities for receiving packing product is arranged on the packaging top side and a further blister card is provided as backing card;

    [0070] FIG. 3 shows in a sectional view from the side the long side of the embodiment of a packaging according to the invention in cushion form illustrated in FIG. 1 or in FIG. 2B wherein in this diagram the packaging is located in its securing position;

    [0071] FIG. 4 shows in an oblique view from the front the packaging in cushion form illustrated in FIG. 2B or in FIG. 3, wherein in this diagram the packaging is located in its removal position fixed by compressing;

    [0072] FIG. 5 shows in an oblique view from the top the packaging interior of the packaging illustrated in FIG. 4, wherein in this diagram the packaging is located in its emptying position fixed by compressing;

    [0073] FIG. 6 shows in an oblique view from above the packaging illustrated in FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 after emptying a tablet as dose unit of the packing product from the packaging interior;

    [0074] FIG. 7 shows in an oblique view from above a further embodiment of a packaging according to the invention in cushion form, wherein here the closure tabs on the left narrow side of the packaging are heat-sealed to one another;

    [0075] FIG. 8 shows in an oblique view from above a further embodiment of a packaging according to the invention in which on the packaging underside a backing card is fastened movably on two opposite peripheral portions of the blister card by means of connecting tabs in the form of several serially arranged connecting webs;

    [0076] FIG. 9 shows in a sectional view according to the line of intersection IX-IX sketched in FIG. 8 from the side a detail of the packaging illustrated in FIG. 8;

    [0077] FIG. 10 shows in an oblique view the long side of the packaging illustrated in FIG. 8 and FIG. 9 during transfer from the securing position into the removal position of the packaging;

    [0078] FIG. 11 shows in an oblique view the long side of the packaging illustrated in FIGS. 8 to 10 in its compressed removal position;

    [0079] FIG. 12 shows in an oblique view from above a further embodiment of a packaging according to the invention in the form of a hexagonal straight prism in a spread-out-flat securing position;

    [0080] FIG. 13 shows in an oblique view from the side the packaging illustrated in FIG. 12 in its compressed removal position wherein the view into the packaging interior of the prism-shaped packaging is exposed;

    [0081] FIG. 14 shows in an oblique view from above the packaging illustrated in FIG. 13 with the closure tabs turned down on the narrow sides of the packaging;

    [0082] FIG. 15 shows in a side view the packaging illustrated in FIGS. 12 to 14 in its compressed removal position;

    [0083] FIG. 16 shows in an oblique view from the side a detail of a further embodiment of a packaging according to the invention in the form of two blister cards which in their securing position lie congruently one above the other in a mirror-inverted manner and which are connected along their two long side edges to inscription tabs which form peripheral portions of the blister cards;

    [0084] FIG. 17 shows in a side view the narrow sides of the packaging illustrated in FIG. 16 in its compressed removal position;

    [0085] FIG. 18 shows in a front view a further embodiment of a packaging according to the invention in cushion form, wherein the packaging is illustrated in its securing position and on the top side of the packaging a removal opening for the packing product is stamped into the carrier film lying at the top here;

    [0086] FIG. 19 shows in an oblique view the packaging illustrated in FIG. 18 in its removal position fixed by compressing;

    [0087] FIG. 20 shows in a detailed view from the front a further embodiment of a packaging according to the invention in cushion form, wherein the packaging is illustrated in its removal position and a removal opening for the packing product is stamped on the top side into the carrier film lying on the top here;

    [0088] FIG. 21 relates to a detail of a further embodiment of a packaging in cushion form according to the invention shown in oblique view, wherein a removal opening for the packing product is stamped into the carrier film lying at the top here and in which the opposite lower carrier film is deep-drawn;

    [0089] FIG. 22 shows in an oblique view a detail of a further embodiment of a packaging in cushion form according to the invention which is illustrated here in its removal position and in which a removal opening for the packing product is stamped through both opposite carrier films;

    [0090] FIG. 23 illustrates in a side view a further embodiment of a packaging in cushion form according to the invention wherein a fold-out package insert is fastened to the inscription tab;

    [0091] FIG. 24 shows in a front view a further embodiment of a packaging in cushion form according to the invention wherein the packaging is illustrated in its securing position and the inscription tab is provided with a tear-out removal securing;

    [0092] FIG. 25 shows in a detailed view from the front a further embodiment of a packaging according to the invention in cushion form, wherein the packaging is illustrated in its removal position in the diagram and on the packaging top side a removal opening together with a closure tab for the packing product is stamped into the carrier film lying at the top.

    [0093] The now-following general description of the figures relates generally to all the figures shown. In the following the same reference numbers are used in each case for the same or comparable elements of the packaging for the different embodiments.

    [0094] FIGS. 1 to 7 each show different embodiments of cushion-shaped packagings 1 in each case, which each have two outer surfaces 2 or outer sides 2 of the packaging 1 which are interconnected along the long sides 3 of the packaging 1. Closure tabs are arranged on the opposite narrow sides 4 and the opposite narrow sides 4 are characterized as mutually opposite packaging portions, namely as first packaging portion 5 as well as second packaging portion 6 opposite to this, wherein these packaging portions 5, 6 must be compressed by hand in order to transfer the packaging 1 from a securing position 70 into a removal position 80.

    [0095] Depending on the design and application of the packaging, the packaging portions 5 and 6 can be marked directly and characterized as actuating portions. Alternatively to this, these packaging portions 5 and 6 can also only be characterized in separately enclosed usage instructions for using the packaging, with the result that the child-resistant design of such a packaging is further increased. Naturally the packaging portions 5 and 6 can be characterized both directly on the packaging and also in usage instructions.

    [0096] The cushion-shaped packaging 1 comprises in each case a blister card 10 with a top side 11 and an underside 12. As already noted initially, the designations of a top side 11 and an underside 12 of the blister card 10 opposite the top side 11 selected hereinafter merely serve to simplify and refine the assignment of the relevant sides. The blister card 10 is arranged in relation to the packaging 1 so that the top side 11 thereof forms an outer side 11 of the blister card 10 or an outer surface 2 of the packaging 1. Conversely the underside 12 of the blister card 10 forms an inner side of the packaging 1.

    [0097] The blister card 10 shown in FIG. 1 is here configured to be substantially rectangular and has a long side 13 and a narrow side 14. The blister card 10 comprises a carrier film 20 which is arranged in FIG. 1 on the top side 11 or the outer side 11 of the blister card 10 and thus also forms an outer surface 1 of the packaging 1. The carrier film 20 is produced, for example, from transparent plastic and has a film thickness 21, for example, of about 200 μm (micron). The carrier film 20 has fold edges 22 and/or perforations 23 or weakening lines 23 in order to be folded, folded or bent along these defined edges or weakening lines. The carrier film 20 has blister cavities 25 for receiving packing product 40. In the packaging 1 illustrated in FIG. 1, for example, a total of ten blister cavities 25 for receiving packing product 40 are arranged on the blister card 10 in two parallel rows of respectively five blister cavities 25. The packing product 40 is illustrated here for simplicity as single tablets 41 in each case.

    [0098] A cover film 30, for example, made of aluminium is attached to the underside 12 of the blister card 10, wherein the cover film 30 has an exemplary film thickness 31 of about 20 μm (micron). The cover film 30 is connected at least in sections extensively to the carrier film 20 leaving the blister cavities 25 free. For example, the cover film 30 is connected to the carrier film 20 by sealing or by adhesive bonding. The push-through direction 35 of the cover film 30 is characterized by an arrow 35, in order to remove the tablets 41 located therein through the cover film 30 from the blister card 10 by pushing in the direction of the arrow 35 from above or from outside onto the blister cavities 25 of the carrier film 20. The cover film 30 is destroyed in so doing.

    [0099] In order to prevent the packing product 40 or the tablets 41 from being able to be removed from the blister card 10 unintentionally or unauthorized, for example, by infants, according to the invention on two opposite side edges 15, 16 of the blister card 10 a backing card 50 for protecting the cover film 30 of the blister card 10 is fastened movably thereon. In the embodiments shown in FIGS. 1 to 7 the first side edge 15 here is a first long side edge 15 of the blister card 10. Likewise the second side edge 16 is a second long side edge 16 of the blister card 10. Closure tabs 60 are arranged in each case on the narrow sides 4 of the packaging 1.

    [0100] FIG. 2A shows a packaging 1 according to the invention in cushion form, wherein in this packaging a blister card 10 with a row of blister cavities 25 for receiving tablets 41 is arranged on the packaging top and a backing card 50 without blister cavities is provided on the packaging underside. In a securing position 70 of the packaging 1 the backing card 50 rests on the underside 12 of the blister card 10 on the cover film 30 attached there. In the securing position 70 the backing card 50 thus serves as a cover card for protecting the sensitive cover film 30 on the underside 12 of the blister card 10. The backing card 50 is here fabricated from a carrier film 55 which is fabricated from the same material as the carrier film 20 of the blister card 10 and is connected to this carrier film 20 along the first long side edge 15 and along the second long side edge 16. The backing card 50 has a top 51 or outer side 51 which forms an outer surface 2 of the packaging 1. The backing card 50 has an underside 52 opposite the top 51 which forms an inner side 52 of the packaging.

    [0101] Within the scope of the invention it is also provided that for example, the backing card 50 is made from a section of the carrier film 20 of the blister card 10 and thus the carrier films of the blister card 10 and the backing card 50 are integrally connected to one another. That portion of the carrier films which forms the backing card 50 for protecting the cover film 30 of the blister card 10 can, for example, be folded over at a side edge 15 of the blister card 10 to form a fold edge 22 and can be adhesively bonded or heat-sealed to the carrier film 20 thereof on the opposite side edge 16 of the blister card 10.

    [0102] FIG. 2B shows in a side view the narrow side 4 of the structure of this packaging 1 illustrated in FIG. 1 wherein a blister card 10 with blister cavities 25 for receiving tablets 41 is arranged on the packaging top side and a further blister card 56 is provided as backing card 50 on the packaging underside.

    [0103] In this further blister card 56 blister cavities 57 for receiving tablets 41 are also arranged in two parallel rows next to one another. The blister card 56 comprises a carrier film 55 which is here connected integrally to the carrier film 20 of the blister card 10. Along the first long side edge 15 of the packaging 1, the carrier films 20 and 55 are folded over at a lateral distance from the cover films 30 and 58 to form fold edges 22. In the area of the opposite second long side edge 16, the two carrier films 20 and 55 are heat-sealed together to form an inscription tab 120. The carrier films 20 and 55 here for example are made of a translucent, transparent plastic. The cover films 30 and 58 are made, for example, of an aluminium composite film. As a result of the mirror-inverted arrangement of the two blister cards 10 and 56—the sensitive cover films 30 and 58 lie oriented towards one another protected inside the packaging—the further blister card 56 with the carrier film 55 lying on the outer side thus serves as a cover card for protecting the sensitive cover film 30 on the underside 12 of the blister card 10 and for protecting its own cover film 58. The carrier film 20 has fold edges 22 and/or perforations 23 or weakening lines 23 in order to be able to be folded, folded or bent along these defined edges or weakening lines.

    [0104] FIG. 3 shows the long side 3 of the embodiment of the packaging 1 in cushion form according to the invention illustrated in FIG. 1 or in FIG. 2B, wherein the packaging 1 is located in its securing position 70 in this diagram. The cover film 58 of the further blister card 56 which serves here as backing card 50 rests on the opposite cover film 30 of the blister card 10. In this second position 70 it is not possible to push through the blister cavities 25, 57 in the push-through direction 35 from outside. The two mutually opposite packaging portions 5 and 6 on the opposite narrow sides 4 of the packaging 1 are located in the flat securing position 70 of the packaging 1 at a maximum distance from one another at a distance 7.

    [0105] FIG. 4 shows the packaging 1 in cushion form illustrated in FIG. 2B or in FIG. 3, wherein in this diagram the packaging 1 is located in its removal position 80 fixed by compressing by hand in the direction of the arrow 90. The external application of force 90 by mirror-inverted compression is symbolized by the two opposite arrows 91 and 92 which are intended to illustrate the directions of pressing, for example, by thumb and index finger of one hand of the user of the packaging 1. Compared to the distance 7 in the securing position 70 shown in FIG. 3, here in FIG. 4 the distance 8 between the two opposite packaging portions 7 and 8 in the removal position 80 is significantly reduced or shortened. The two packaging portions 7 and 8 which must be compressed in the cushion packagings shown here are the lateral closure tabs 60 in each case. As a result of the external application of force 90, the cushion-shaped packaging 1 bulges out to form a packaging interior 100. This has the result that during compression 90 of the closure tabs 60 from outside, as along as the packaging 1 is therefore fixed with one hand in its removal position 80, the blister card 10 and the backing card 50 or here the further blister card 56 do not rest on one another at their undersides or inner sides 12 and 52 and therefore the tablets 41 can be removed from the blister cavities 25, 57 by pushing through 35 the blister cards or blister strips with the other free hand.

    [0106] FIG. 5 shows in an oblique view from above the packaging interior 100 of the packaging 1 illustrated in FIG. 4, wherein in this diagram the packaging is located in its emptying position 130 fixed by lateral compression. A tablet 41 which had already been removed from the blister cards in the removal position 80 and pushed through into the packaging interior 100, can be removed from the packaging 1 after gripping and opening the lateral closure tabs 60 in the emptying position 130. For fixing the packaging 1 in this emptying position 130 the packaging must be compressed on its long side edges 15, 16 in the pushing direction 140 symbolized by two opposite arrows 140.

    [0107] The opened closure tabs 60 here form an approximately oval removal opening 110 for the packing product 40. Practically tablets 41 can thus be emptied from the packaging interior 100 in a contact-free manner into the mouth of the user.

    [0108] FIG. 6 shows the packaging 1 after emptying a tablet 41 as dose unit of the packing product from the packaging interior 100.

    [0109] FIG. 7 shows a further embodiment of a packaging 1 in cushion form according to the invention wherein here the closure tabs 60 on the left narrow side 4 of the packaging 1 are heat-sealed together in sections 61. Thus, only the closure tabs 60 on the right narrow side 4 of the packaging are available as removal opening 110 for the tablets 41 after opening.

    [0110] FIGS. 8 to 11 show a further embodiment of a packaging 1 according to the invention in which on the packaging underside, a backing card 50 is fastened movably in a foldable manner by means of connecting tabs 65 in the form of a plurality of connecting webs arranged in series on two opposite peripheral portions 17 and 18 of the blister card 10.

    [0111] FIG. 8 shows this packaging 1 in its securing position 70. Both the blister card 10 and also the backing card 50 which here is a further blister card 56, each have a first peripheral portion 17 along the long side edges thereof and opposite a second peripheral portion 18, wherein several connecting tabs 65 are fastened in these peripheral portions 17 and 18 between the blister card 10 and the backing card 50. Depending on the length of these connecting tabs 65 or connecting webs, the two interconnected elements, i.e. the blister card 10 and the backing card 50 can be transferred from their securing position 70 into their removal position 80, which is illustrated in FIG. 11, by lateral compression on the first packaging portion 5 and on the second packaging portion 6. The blister card 10 and the backing card 50 are each formed in the shape of U-profiles, wherein fold edges 22 running parallel to one another in the longitudinal direction of the packaging 1 serve to increase the stiffness of the blister card 10 or the backing card 50.

    [0112] FIG. 9 shows in a sectional view according to the line of intersection IX-IX sketched in FIG. 8 from the side a detail of the packaging 1 illustrated in FIG. 8. The cover films 30 and 58 of the blister card 10 or the further blister card 56 in their function as backing card 50 for the blister card 10 at the top in the diagram rest directly on one another in the securing position 70. In the purely schematic FIG. 9 an apparent air space or distance between the blister card 10 and the backing card 50 is shown merely for clearer representation. As soon as an attempt is made in this securing position 70 to remove tablets 41 from the packaging 1 from outside by pushing through 35 the blister cavities 25 or 57, the two cover films 30 and 58 rest on one another in each case and alternately and mutually stabilize or protect one another before these can be pushed through. That state applies synonymously also to the diagrams in FIGS. 2A, 2B, 12 and 16 where in each case to better represent the packaging function in its securing position 70, layers of the blister cards 10 resting on one another and backing cards 50 assigned to these are illustrated apparently with an interposed spacing. As stated, this merely serves for simpler representation and assignment of individual layers to the respective elements of the packaging.

    [0113] FIG. 10 shows the long side of the packaging 1 illustrated in FIG. 8 and FIG. 9 during transfer from the securing position 70 into the removal position 80 of the packaging 1. The direction of movement 95 which is brought about by external application of force 90 by mirror-inverted compression or displacement 91, 92 by means of two fingers of a hand of the user is symbolized by the double arrow 95.

    [0114] FIG. 11 shows the long side of the packaging 1 illustrated in FIGS. 8 to 10 in their compressed removal position 80. The upper blister card 10 is here located at a distance from the backing card 50 forming a packaging interior 100.

    [0115] FIGS. 12 to 15 relate to a further embodiment of a packaging 1 according to the invention in the form of a hexagonal straight prism.

    [0116] FIG. 12 shows this packaging 1 according to the invention in the form of a hexagonal straight prism in a spread-out-flat securing position 70. In order to increase the movability of the blister cards 10 and/or backing cards 50, 56 arranged next to one another in a strip-like manner, the long side edges are executed as fold edges 22. Alternatively or in addition to the fold edges 22, perforations 23 or weakening lines 23 can also be provided for weakening the material of the carrier films 20, 55.

    [0117] FIG. 13 shows this packaging 1 in its compressed removal position, wherein the view into the packaging interior 100 of the prism-shaped packaging 1 is exposed.

    [0118] FIG. 14 shows this packaging 1 with closure tabs 60 bent over on the narrow sides of the packaging 1. For fixing the packaging 1 in this emptying position 130, the packaging must be compressed on its long side edges 15, 16 in the pressure direction 140 symbolized by two opposite arrows 140.

    [0119] FIG. 15 shows in a side view the packaging illustrated in FIGS. 12 to 14 in its compressed removal position 80.

    [0120] The two FIGS. 16 and 17 relate to a further embodiment of a packaging 1 according to the invention in the form of a blister card 10 and a backing card 50 which is also executed as a further blister card 56. The two blister cards 10 and 56 in their securing position 70 lie congruently in a mirror-inverted manner above one another and are connected along their two long side edges 15, 16 to inscription tabs 120 which form the peripheral portions 17, 18 of the blister cards 10 and 56.

    [0121] FIG. 16 shows this packaging 1 according to the invention in its securing position 70.

    [0122] FIG. 17 shows in a side view the narrow side of the packaging illustrated in FIG. 16 in its compressed removal position 80. Advantageously for this purpose the two inscription tabs 120 can be roughened, for example, so that these can be gripped more easily for the user and compressed. At the same time, these inscription tabs 120 can be constituted by means of corresponding design measures such as, for example, comparatively sharp outer long edges so that these are perceived to be unpleasant when touched by infants. As a result, infants are additionally deterred from compressing the packaging 1 by compressing the inscription tabs 120 which are unpleasant to touch.

    [0123] The packagings 1 shown here each comprise blister cards 10 or backing cards 50 which have substantially rectangular contours. However, the invention is not restricted to rectangular or strip-shaped blister cards 10 or backing cards 50 but naturally, for example, square, circular or elliptical blister cards 10 or backing cards 50 can also be used for a packaging 1 according to the invention.

    [0124] The further FIGS. 18 to 25 are explained in detail in the following:

    [0125] FIG. 18 shows a further embodiment of a packaging 1 according to the invention in cushion form, wherein the packaging 1 is illustrated here in its securing position 70. On the top side of the packaging 1 or on the top side 11 of the blister card 10, a removal opening 110 for the packing product is stamped into the carrier film 20 lying at the top here. The backing card 50 which is fastened along two opposite long side edges 15, 16 on the blister card 10 and which in the securing position 70 rests on the underside 12 or on the inner side of the blister card 10, is made from a section of the carrier film 20 of the blister card 10. The carrier films 20, 55 of the blister card 10 and the backing card 50 are connected integrally to one another. The blister card 10 lying at the top in the figure here, for example, comprises two rows of blister cavities 25 for receiving packing product 40. Specifically here, for example, seven tablets 41 are packed in the blister card 41 lying at the top. The removal opening 110 in the carrier film 20 at the top is here stamped out in a circular shape and is arranged on a corresponding section of the carrier film 20 of the blister card 10 before heat-sealing the two carrier films 20 and 55 to form a lateral inscription tab 120. In this embodiment the corresponding opposite section of the carrier film 55 of the backing card 50 is not stamped or deformed. The removal opening 110 is here advantageously positioned so that a section of the stamped-out removal opening 110, for example, about half the cross-section of the circular removal opening 110, is arranged in the region of the lateral inscription tab 120. This has the advantage that thus only approximately the remaining other half of the removal opening 110 is available as free cross-section for removal of packing product 40 and in the securing position 70 of the packaging 1 the removal opening 110 is reliably closed. Lateral closure tabs 60 on the two mutually opposite narrow sides 4 of the packaging 1 are each heat-sealed together along sections 61. The stamped-in removal opening 110 is thus the only opening of the packaging 1 for removal of packing product.

    [0126] In the removal position 80 of the packaging 1 as illustrated in FIG. 19 the removal opening 110 here in the form approximately of a semicircle adjacent to the inscription tab 120 is opened in the region of the blister card 10. This has the advantage that the removal opening 110 is as small as possible in order to ensure only the removal of a single packed product 40 or a single tablet 41. Depending on the selected film thickness 21 of the carrier film 20, the edge of that half of the stamped-out circular removal opening 110, which is heat-sealed in the region of the inscription tab 120 to the carrier film 55 of the backing card 50, acts as a boundary edge for the removed packing product 40.

    [0127] Depending on the design, the removal opening 110 stamped into the carrier film 20 can also differ from a circular shape and for example, be formed in the form of a rectangle, a square, an ellipse or a polygonal curved line. Likewise, the proportion of the removal opening 110 which in the heat-sealed position of the finished packaging 1 comes to lie in the region of the inscription tab 120 and therefore is not available as free cross-section for actual removal of the packing product can vary. For example, the removal opening 110 can be entirely arranged on that section of the carrier film 20 of the blister card 10 which does not form the inscription tab 120 but is actually available as a free removal cross-section with the packaging interior 100.

    [0128] Likewise, it can be expedient to position the removal opening 110 so that only a specific section of the removal opening 110, for example, only a quarter or a third of the area of the stamped removal opening 110, comes to lie in the region of the inscription tab 120 but the remaining free cross-section is available for actual removal of the packing product 40 from the packaging interior 100.

    [0129] FIG. 20 shows in a detailed view from the front a further embodiment of a packaging 1 according to the invention in cushion form, wherein the packaging 1 is illustrated here in its removal position 80 and on the top side a removal opening 110 for the packing product 40 is stamped into the carrier film 20 of the blister card 10 shown at the top. In this packaging 1 both the inscription tab 120 protruding to the right in the diagram and also the closure tabs 60 on the opposite narrow sides 4 of the packaging 1 are provided with inscriptions. The inscriptions can, for example be printed or glued on the carrier films or on the outer surfaces 2 of the packaging. The lateral closure tabs 60 are heat-sealed together along sections 61. In this embodiment the stamped in removal opening 110 is the only opening for removal of packing product.

    [0130] FIG. 21 shows a detail of a further embodiment of a packaging 1 according to the invention in cushion form, wherein a removal opening 110 for the packing product 40 is stamped into the carrier film 20 lying at the top here. That section of the opposite lower carrier film 55 of the backing card 50 which corresponds with the removal opening 110 in the carrier film 20 is deep-drawn here and advantageously forms a chute for the packing product 40. With reference to FIG. 18 here also the removal opening 110 is advantageously positioned so that approximately half of the stamped-out removal opening 110 is arranged in the region of the lateral inscription tab 120.

    [0131] A single packing product 40, for example, a tablet 41 can only be removed individually from the removal opening 110 and thereby enters into the deep-drawn section of the carrier film 55 in the region of the inscription tab 120 which acts like a chute or slide for the individual packing product 40. The edge of the deep-drawn recess of the lower carrier film 55 here acts as a dam for the packing product 40 and prevents the unintentional loss of the removed packing product 40 during removal before this is grasped by the user.

    [0132] FIG. 22 shows in an oblique view a detail of a further embodiments of a packaging 1 according to the invention in cushion form which is illustrated in its removal position 80. Both mutually opposite carrier films 20, 55 are stamped through here after laminating the inscription tab 110. The removal opening 110 is in this case positioned so that a section of the stamped-out removal opening 110, for example, half of the circular removal opening 110, is arranged in the region of the lateral inscription tab 120. Thus, the removal opening 110 obtained by stamping through both carrier films 20, 55 has the advantage that the free long edge of the inscription tab 120 is also continuous in the area of the removal opening. It is thus ensured that in the removal position 80, in each case only a single packing product 40 or a single tablet 41 can be removed from the packaging 1 through the removal opening 110. The continuous free long edge of the inscription tab 120 here acts as a clamp for that packing product 40 or that tablet 41 located just inside the removal opening 110. Depending on the selected position and the proportion of the removal opening 110 which is positioned in the region of the inscription tab 120 an undesired falling out of packing product 40 from the removal opening 110 can thus be prevented. In order to further increase the safety as child-resistant packaging 1, the continuous free long edge of the inscription tab 120 is here designed to be jagged or roughly structured, for example, which is particularly perceived as unpleasant when grasped by children.

    [0133] FIG. 23 illustrates in a side view a further embodiment of a packaging 1 according to the invention in cushion form wherein a fold-out package insert 121 is fastened to the inscription tab 120. The package leaflet 121 is here, for example, adhesively bonded in a captive manner to the inscription tab 120 by means of an adhesive film and folded in a pull-out manner like a concertina. FIG. 23 shows the package leaflet 121 in the folded-out position.

    [0134] FIG. 24 shows in a front view a further embodiment of a packaging 1 in cushion shape according to the invention, wherein the packaging 1 is illustrated in its securing position 70 and the inscription tab 120 is fitted with a tear-off removal securing device 125. The removal securing device 125 serves to ensure that the packaging 1 is secured in its securing position 70 until the removal securing device 125 is removed or opened. As removal securing device 125 the inscription tab 120 has respectively perforations 23 or weakening lines 23 of the carrier films 20, 55 along the long side edge 16 of the blister card 10 and the backing card 50 arranged thereunder, which extend from the mutually opposite narrow sides 4 of the packaging 1 along a section of the long side edge 16. The sections of the perforations 23 or weakening lines 23 along the long side edge 16 must first be torn off before the packaging 1 is transferred into its removal position 80 in the manner already described previously by external application of force 90 by mirror-inverted compression 91, 92 of the two mutually opposite packaging portions 5, 6 and the removal opening 110 stamped into the upper carrier film 20 is thus opened. The lateral closure tabs 60 on the narrow sides 4 are heat-sealed together along sections 61. In this embodiment the stamped-in removal opening 110 is the only opening for removal of packing product.

    [0135] The two outer wings or sections of the inscription tab 120 can be removed after tearing open the perforations 23 along the long side edge 16 by then further tearing open along weakening lines 23 which, for example run obliquely in the direction of the free long edge of the inscription tab 120. In FIG. 24 the inscription tab 120 here has a hanging opening 126 approximately in its longitudinal centre which is used for hanging the packaging 1 for example on a sales stand.

    [0136] FIG. 25 illustrates in a detailed view a further embodiment of a packaging 1 according to the invention in cushion form, wherein the packaging 1 is illustrated in its removal position 80 and on the packaging top side a removal opening 110 for the packing product is stamped into the carrier film 20 lying at the top. The removal opening 110 is here advantageously arranged transversely to the longitudinal direction of the packaging and for example, has an approximately rectangular contour. In this variant, the removal opening 110 is only stamped out along three sides maintaining an edge distance from the carrier film 20. The fourth side, preferably a long side of the rectangular contour is not stamped out or stamped through but is merely machined to form a weakening line 23 or a perforation line 23 of the carrier film 20. Alternatively or in addition to the perforation 23 the contour along this fourth side can also be provided with a fold edge 22. Thus, a movable foldable closure tab 60 remains inside the removal opening 110 which remains along one side of the removal opening 110 connected to the adjacent carrier film 20 to form a fold edge 22 and/or a perforation line 23. This foldable closure tab 60 ensures that for the case where the packaging 1 is located in its securing position 70 the removal opening 110 is closed. As soon as the packaging 1 is transferred into its removal position 80 as a result of an external application of force 90 by means of mirror-inverted compression 91, 92 of the two mutually opposite packaging portions 5, 6, the removal opening 110 stamped into the upper carrier film 20 thus opens and the foldable closure tab 60 folds inwards into the packaging interior 100 along the weakening line 23 or perforation 23 and/or the fold line 22 and thus automatically exposes the removal opening 110.

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    [0137] 1 Packaging [0138] 2 Outer surface [0139] 3 Long side of the packaging [0140] 4 Narrow side of the packaging [0141] 5 First packaging portion [0142] 6 Second packaging portion [0143] 7 Distance between the packaging portions in the securing position [0144] 8 Distance between the packaging portions in the removal position [0145] 10 Blister card [0146] 11 Top side or outer side of blister card [0147] 12 Underside or inner side of blister card [0148] 13 Long side of blister card [0149] 14 Narrow side of blister card [0150] 15 First side edge (or long side edge) of blister card [0151] 16 Second side edge (or long side edge) of blister card [0152] 17 First peripheral portion of blister card [0153] 18 Second peripheral portion of blister card [0154] 20 Carrier film [0155] 21 Film thickness of carrier film [0156] 22 Fold edge of carrier film [0157] 23 Perforation or weakening line of carrier film [0158] 25 Blister cavity [0159] 30 Cover film [0160] 31 Film thickness of cover film [0161] 35 Push-through direction of cover film (arrow) [0162] 40 Packing product [0163] 41 Tablet [0164] 50 Backing card [0165] 51 Top side or outer side of backing card [0166] 52 Underside or inner side of backing card [0167] 53 Long side of backing card [0168] 54 Narrow side of backing card [0169] 55 Carrier film [0170] 56 (Further) blister card [0171] 57 Blister cavity [0172] 58 Cover film [0173] 60 Closure tab [0174] 61 Heat-sealed section of closure tab [0175] 65 Connecting tab, connecting web [0176] 70 (First) securing position [0177] 80 (Second) removal position [0178] 90 Action of external force during removal position (arrow) [0179] 91 (First) pushing direction of the mirror-inverted compression (arrow) [0180] 92 (Second) pushing direction of the mirror-inverted compression (arrow) [0181] 95 Direction of movement between securing and removal position (double arrow) [0182] 100 Packaging interior [0183] 110 Removal opening for the packing product, packing product removal opening [0184] 120 Inscription tab [0185] 121 Package leaflet [0186] 125 Removal securing device [0187] 126 Hanging opening [0188] 130 Emptying position [0189] 140 Pushing direction during emptying position (arrow)