Components for making a strip package

Claim 1

A pair of packaging components adapted for manually packaging solid medication into integrally connected individual sealed plastic blisters comprising: a strip of plastic material having a plurality of recesses for receiving said solid medication, a label strip substantially congruent to said plastic strip material and bearing a succession of like drug indicia on a first surface, said label strip being formed of a tearable and flexible material, a coating of pressure-sensitive adhesive covering the opposite surface of said lAbel strip, a protective backing on said adhesive coating of said label strip, said backing being precut in a pattern conforming with said recesses in said plastic strip material and defining a removable border area to expose portions of said adhesive coating to be removably affixed to the plastic surface area circumscribing said recesses, a succession of perforations extending through said plastic strip between said recesses and coinciding perforations extending only through said label strip affixed to said protective backing to enable separation of an assembled plastic strip and label strip into individual dosages upon preassembly removal of said precut protective backing border area.