Special receptacle or package – With indicator
Patent
1988-09-06
1989-07-25
Gehman, Bryon P.
Special receptacle or package
With indicator
40312, 206 4531, 206461, 235487, B65D 2554
Patent
active
048504882
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a receptacle for displaying articles and more particularly to a blister pack for presentation of an article, bearing information readable by opto-electronic devices.
Many articles are now packed in forms facilitating their commercial distribution. Modern distribution techniques make wise use of blister type packs. In such cases the article to be sold is placed in a housing such as a shell, a bubble or an alveolus made of transparent plastic material, said housing being fastened onto a rigid or semi-rigid card plate or plaque, e.g. of cardboard, to facilitate the hanging of the whole on a display shell. Thus customers of a store equipped with such display shelves can examine and recognize the article contained within the transparent housing. Various characteristics of the article such as its price, possibly its expiry date, its mode of use and techynical features, etc. appear on the card. In this way, all the information is immediately available to the customer without the need to turn to a salesman. With this display, the customer can make a decision on whether or not to purchase, more quickly. The customer can serve himself by simply taking down the article so packed from the display shelf. Due to these attractive characteristics, blister type packing is widespread in stores: it has the advantages of distribution in bulk without the drawbacks of loose display.
The articles displayed in such receptacles might have been packed previously by the manufacturer. Such is the case for film cartrigdes or cassettes which arenormally packed in cardboard boxes having printed thereon various film characteristics intended for the customer's information. Very often the cardboard box also bears coded information used by the manufacturer for automatic identification of the article. For this purpose manufacturers often use bar codes which can be read automatically by opto-electric means, such as scanners with photodiode bar or light pens.
Of course, when such an article is repacked in a blister pack for distribution on display shelves, the bar codes remain perfectly readable through the transparent shell which wraps the article.
Very often, the distributor of the whole receptacle blister/article uses another bar code for managing this product from its entry into stock to its sale to customers. This bar code which is printed for example on the support card of the transparent shell, is used by employees at the point of sale to locate the identification code of the whole. Thus, the employees are faced with products bearing two different bar codes, one relating to the individual articles, the other relating to the whole pack. Very serious errors can result from the reading of the bar code printed on the article instead of the one corresponding to the whole pack. To avoid any confusion, it is necessary to mask the bar codes of the individual articles for example with an auto-adhesive label stuck on the bar code, before repacking the article in a blister pack, a task which requires expensive additional handling.
Thus, the object of the present invention is to make a blister type receptacle for displaying articles bearing bar codes; this receptacle prevents any confusion between the code on the article and another bar code borne by the receptacle itself, this protection requiring no expensive additional handling of the article.
This object of the invention is attained with a receptacle comprising a transparent area covering information readable by opto-electronic devices, which is borne by an article contained in the receptacle, characterized in that the section of the transparent area which faces the area of the article bearing information readable by opto-electric devices, has deformations which serve to distort the reading of this information through this transparent area.
In the attached drawing given only by way of example:
FIG. 1 is a plan view of a receptacle according to the present invention for displaying an article bearing a bar code; and
FIG. 2 is a face view of the receptacle represen
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