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Self-adhesive plaster containing medication
Assignee: LTS Lohmann Therapie Systeme AG
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Filing: 1985-06-17
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Granted: 1987-10-13
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Expires: 2005-06-17
Abstract
Abstract A self-adhesive medicinal plaster comprises a plurality of adhesive elements spaced from each other on a surface of a carrier web and a plurality of active ingredient elements, containing a medication, spaced from each other and from the active ingredient elements on the surface of the carrier web whereby the medicinal active ingredient composition is isolated from the adhesive composition.
Inventors
- 👤 Erich Nick
- 👤 Gunter Guse
- 👤 Bodo Asmussen
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-23 20:05
CPC Classifications
A; A61; A61K; A61K9/00; A61K9/70; A61K9/7023; A61K9/703; A61F; A61F13/00; A61F13/00051; A61F13/00063; A61F13/02; A61F13/0246; A61F13/025; A61F13/0253; A61F13/0259; A61K9/7084; A61F2013/00089; A61F2013/00217; A61F2013/00234; Y; Y10; Y10T; Y10T428/00; Y10T428/28; Y10T428/2852; Y10T428/2878; Y10T428/2891
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 23
Claim 1
Independent Claim
159 words
A self-adhesive transdermal medicinal plaster in which the medication is isolated from the adhesive, comprising: (a) an impermeable carrier web; (b) a plurality of adhesive elements spaced from each other at predetermined locations on a surface of said carrier web; and (c) a plurality of active ingredient elements, containing at least one transdermal medication, spaced from each other and from said active ingredient elements at predetermined locations on said surface of said carrier web; (d) said active ingredient elements being disposed between a plurality of said adhesive elements and said adhesive elements being disposed between a plurality of said active ingredient elements on said surface of said carrier web, and the height of said active ingredient elements and the height of said adhesive elements on said carrier web being about the same to assure, when said plaster is applied to the skin, uniformly good contact of both said active ingredient and adhesive elements with the surface of the skin.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
159 words
A self-adhesive transdermal medicinal plaster in which the medication is isolated from the adhesive, comprising: (a) an impermeable carrier web; (b) a plurality of adhesive elements spaced from each other at predetermined locations on a surface of said carrier web; and (c) a plurality of active ingredient elements, containing at least one transdermal medication, spaced from each other and from said active ingredient elements at predetermined locations on said surface of said carrier web; (d) said active ingredient elements being disposed between a plurality of said adhesive elements and said adhesive elements being disposed between a plurality of said active ingredient elements on said surface of said carrier web, and the height of said active ingredient elements and the height of said adhesive elements on said carrier web being about the same to assure, when said plaster is applied to the skin, uniformly good contact of both said active ingredient and adhesive elements with the surface of the skin.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
37 words
A self-adhesive medicinal plaster according to claim 5 wherein each of said adhesive elements and each of said medicinal active ingredient elements are approximately cap-shaped and adhere at its base to said surface of said carrier web.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
34 words
A self-adhesive medicinal plaster according to claim 2 wherein the apexes of said medicinal active ingredient elements and said adhesive elements are approximately the same height relative to said surface of said carrier web.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
42 words
A self-adhesive medicinal plaster according to claim 5 wherein each of said medicinal active ingredient elements is surrounded by a plurality of said adhesive elements and each of said adhesive elements is surrounded by a plurality of said medicinal active ingredient elements.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
27 words
A self-adhesive medicinal plaster according to claim 4 wherein said medicinal active ingredient elements and adhesive elements have a base dimension of up to about 5000 μm.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
28 words
A self-adhesive medicinal plaster according to claim 5 wherein the base dimension of said medicinal active ingredient elements and said adhesive elements is between 200 and 1500 μm.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
34 words
A self-adhesive medicinal plaster according to claim 5 wherein the adhesive of said adhesive elements is selected from the group consisting of rubber, a polyacrylic acid ester, polyisobutylene and mixtures thereof with tackifying resins.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
22 words
A self-adhesive medicinal plaster according to claim 5 wherein said medicinal active ingredient further comprises at least one pharmaceutical auxiliary or excipient.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
38 words
A self-adhesive medicinal plaster according to claim 5 further comprising an adhesion promoter coating on said surface of said carrier web for promoting adhesion of said medicinal active ingredient elements and said adhesive elements to said carrier web.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
42 words
A self-adhesive medicinal plaster according to claim 5 further comprising a film covering the surface of said carrier web opposite said surface supporting said medicinal active ingredient and adhesive elements, said film being selected from the group consisting of lacquer and metal.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
15 words
A self-adhesive medicinal plaster according to claim 5 wherein said active ingredient elements comprise 2-methyl-4-chloro-6-methoxy-5-(2-imidazolin-2-yl)-amino-pyramidine.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
35 words
A self-adhesive medicinal plaster according to claim 5 wherein a portion of said active ingredient elements comprise one type of medicinal composition and the remainder of said active ingredient elements comprise a different medicinal composition.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
29 words
A self-adhesive medicinal plaster according to claim 5 further comprising a releasable cover web covering said surface of said carrier web including said medicinal active ingredient and adhesive elements.
Claim 15
Independent Claim
217 words
A method of making a self-adhesive transdermal medicinal plaster in which the medication is isolated from the adhesive, comprising applying, by gravure printing processes, a dispersion, plastisol or organisol of an adhesive having a high solids content and a dispersion of at least one transdermal medication having a high solids content at spaced locations on one surface of an impermeable carrier web and drying said adhesive and said medication to form a plurality of adhesive elements and a plurality of transdermal medicinal active ingredient elements spaced from each other at predetermined locations on said surface of said carrier web, said elements being arranged such that each of said medicinal active ingredient elements is disposed between a plurality of said adhesive elements and each of said adhesive elements is disposed between a plurality of said medicinal active ingredient elements, the amount of dispersion, plastisol or organisol of said adhesive and the amount of said dispersion of at least one medication applied to said carrier web being such that the height of the resultant adhesive elements and the height of the resultant active ingredient elements on said carrier web are about the same to assure, when said plaster is applied to skin, uniformly good contact of both said adhesive and active ingredient elements with the surface of the skin.
Claim 16
Independent Claim
217 words
A method of making a self-adhesive transdermal medicinal plaster in which the medication is isolated from the adhesive, comprising applying, by gravure printing processes, a dispersion, plastisol or organisol of an adhesive having a high solids content and a dispersion of at least one transdermal medication having a high solids content at spaced locations on one surface of an impermeable carrier web and drying said adhesive and said medication to form a plurality of adhesive elements and a plurality of transdermal medicinal active ingredient elements spaced from each other at predetermined locations on said surface of said carrier web, said elements being arranged such that each of said medicinal active ingredient elements is disposed between a plurality of said adhesive elements and each of said adhesive elements is disposed between a plurality of said medicinal active ingredient elements, the amount of dispersion, plastisol or organisol of said adhesive and the amount of said dispersion of at least one medication applied to said carrier web being such that the height of the resultant adhesive elements and the height of the resultant active ingredient elements on said carrier web are about the same to assure, when said plaster is applied to skin, uniformly good contact of both said adhesive and active ingredient elements with the surface of the skin.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
20 words
A method of making a self-adhesive plaster according to claim 19 wherein said gravure printing processes are screen printing processes.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
34 words
A method of making a self-adhesive plaster according to claim 19 wherein said adhesive applied to said carrier web is an aqueous, thixotropic dispersion of adhesive with a solids content of 55-65% by weight.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
57 words
A method of making a self-adhesive plaster according to claim 19 comprising first applying said adhesive to said carrier web, drying said adhesive to form said plurality of adhesive elements, and cross-linking the composition of said adhesive elements and then applying said medication to form said medicinal active ingredient elements and drying said medicated active ingredient elements.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
25 words
A method of making a self-adhesive plaster according to claim 17 wherein said cross-linking of said adhesive elements is by means of electron beam radiation.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
58 words
A method of making a self-adhesive plaster according to claim 14 wherein the amount of dispersion, plastisol or organisol of said adhesive and the amount of said dispersion of at least one medication applied by said gravure printing processes, respectively, provides adhesive elements and medicinal active ingredient elements respectively having a maximum base dimension of about 5000 μm.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
106 words
A method of making a self-adhesive plaster according to claim 19 wherein said dispersion, plastisol or organisol of an adhesive having a high solids content is first applied by said gravure printing process to said surface of said carrier web and said adhesive is dried to form said plurality of adhesive elements on said carrier web and then said dispersion of at least one medication having a high solids content is applied by a further gravure printing process at spaced locations and spaced from said adhesive elements on said surface of said carrier web and said adhesive is dried to form said plurality of adhesive elements.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
58 words
A method of making a self-adhesive plaster according to claim 19 wherein the amount of dispersion, plastisol or organisol of said adhesive and the amount of said dispersion of at least one medication applied by said gravure printing processes, respectively, provides adhesive elements and medicinal active ingredient elements respectivly having a base dimension between 200 and 1500 μm.
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