| abstract |
Improved method and means for packaging multi-container biological, medical and pharmaceutical substances where shelf life demands small active ingredient bottle and large diluent bottle; improved storage, shipping and merchandising container for a pair of different sized bottles where one contains liquid; compartmented packaging for multiple bottle set where space is at a premium and immobility of containers or bottles within the package is desired; dimensioned packaging for receiving and stably positioning two bottles of markedly different size and typically different contents in a minimum space; an improved packaging blank having a lower larger component for vertical storage of a liquid-containing bottle and an upper compartment with bottle-receiving platform for horizontal storage of a solidcontaining bottle, the two bottles so sized as to permit preparation of varying dosage levels or quantities in a specific case; improved method of dispensing biologicals such as viruses, wherein the freeze-dried virus is received within a minimum size bottle or container adequate to thereafter receive sufficient liquid diluent to dissolve all said freezer-dried virus cake, the diluent liquid received in a second, larger size bottle or container, the virus cake within the smaller said bottle which is transferred out of same dissolved in the diluent being sufficient to meet the minimum Government requirements for viral content when reconstituted with the entire quantity of diluent liquid in the accompanying second larger bottle, the second, larger diluent bottle so sized that it can receive both the maximum quantity of diluent to remain within the Government requirements for viral content when reconstituted and lesser quantities of said diluent. |