US 11,679,902 B2
Packaging system for small-volume aseptic filling
John Dinka, Doylestown, PA (US); Eric Claude, Vienna, VA (US); Robert A. Carlton, Lowell, MA (US); Lynessa Erler, Burke, VA (US); Kathleen McHugh, Alexandria, VA (US); and Maria Pascale, Washington, DC (US)
Assigned to West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., Exton, PA (US)
Filed by West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., Exton, PA (US)
Filed on May 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/332,024.
Application 17/332,024 is a division of application No. 16/955,427, granted, now 11,161,633, previously published as PCT/US2018/067450, filed on Dec. 24, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/712,635, filed on Jul. 31, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/609,758, filed on Dec. 22, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0380289 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. B65B 7/28 (2006.01); B65B 67/02 (2006.01); B65D 71/50 (2006.01); B67B 1/04 (2006.01); B65B 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 7/2821 (2013.01) [B65D 71/50 (2013.01); B67B 1/04 (2013.01); B65B 3/003 (2013.01); B65B 67/02 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A packaging system comprising:
a container tray having a container cell configured to receive a medicine container;
a plurality of shuttles, each of the plurality of shuttles having:
a body, and
at least one projection having an interior surface and a distal portion having a protrusion, the interior surface being configured to releasably secure a stopper to the shuttle and the protrusion extending radially outwardly of the body, wherein the protrusion includes a tool fitting configured to releasably engage a tool; and
a shuttle tray having a plurality of shuttle cells configured to releasably secure the plurality of shuttles,
wherein a shuttle of the plurality of shuttles is individually removable from the shuttle tray by the tool when the tool engages the tool fitting, and the at least one projection is configured to be deformed by the tool when engaged with the tool fitting to release the stopper from the shuttle and insert the stopper into a fill opening of the medicine container.