Peel-off packaging for pen needles and syringe needles

Inventors

GIRGIS, Peter A.

Assignees

Embecta Corp

Abstract

A multiple pen needle or syringe needle storage and dispensing system where a plurality of needle devices such as pen needles including a cover can be disposed on strip, where the strip serves a seal for multiple needle devices. Each needle device can be peeled off the strip unsealed for immediate use for example in an injections device, or separated from the strip sealed for later use.

Core Innovation

The system stores and dispenses needles by providing a first plurality of needle devices and a second plurality of needle devices. Each needle device includes a needle and an outer cover covering the needle, and each outer cover has a strip attached that provides a corner seal for the outer cover. The strip is arranged so that it defines a common plane between the first plurality and the second plurality of needle devices.

Each needle device is configured to be individually removable from the strip. Removal of a needle device from the strip detaches the strip from the outer cover of the removed needle device and exposes the needle of the removed needle device for immediate use. The first plurality of needle devices are sealingly attached to a first side of the strip and the second plurality of needle devices are sealingly attached to a second side of the strip opposite the first side.

The described variants further refine the peel-off configuration by adding perforations that divide the strip into detachable portions, including arrangements where one needle device can be removed for immediate use while another needle device remains attached to the strip. Additional refinements include strip constructions with layers that provide a polypropylene non-permeable seal with each needle device, and structural and arrangement features such as longitudinal alignment and symmetrical placement of the first and second pluralities about the common plane.

Claims Coverage

The independent claim defines a needle storage and dispensing system using an attached peel-off strip that provides a corner seal for each outer cover while exposing the needle for immediate use upon individual removal. Seven inventive features are identified across the claims coverage.

Overall claim coverage centers on individually removable needle devices mounted to a common peel-off strip with corner sealing that exposes the needle upon removal, with further refinements for perforation-based separation, retention of other devices during peel-off, polypropylene non-permeable sealing, longitudinal alignment, and symmetrical layout about a strip-defined common plane.

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