Dispensing container

• US 3,306,493 A
• Filed: 08/24/1964
• Issued: 02/28/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John L. Szajna
• Original Assignee: John L. Szajna
• Inventors: Szajna, John L.
• Application Number:
  US04/391,536
• Time in Patent Office: 918 Days
• US Class Current: 221/64
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 1/32 Containers adapted to be temporarily deformed by external pressure to expel contents B65D47/2018, B65D83/0055 take precedence ; containers for pharmaceutical purposes A61J1/20, A61M5/19; containers with disinfecting linings A61L2/00; liquid sprayers B05B; oil cans F16N3/00
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2583/0431 Disc-like articles arranged in a pile on their flat side
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0436 the articles being dispensed by pinching action on a flexible tube
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/822 Special shape

Claims

1. A TABLET DISPENSER COMPRISING A TUBULAR DISPENSER BODY HAVING FIRST AND SECOND END PORTIONS, A WALL CLOSING SAID FIRST END PORTION, A PERIPHERAL EDGE OF SAID SECOND END PORTION DEFINING A NORMALLY GENERALLY OVAL-SHAPED OPENING, SAID OVAL-SHAPED OPENING BEING NORMALLY EFFECTIVE TO PREVENT TABLETS FROM PASSING OUTWARDLY THERETHROUGH, SAID BODY BETWEEN SAID OVAL-SHAPED OPENING AND SAID CLOSING WALL BEING GENERALLY NORMALLY CIRCULAR IN TRANSVERSE CROSS-SECTION, FREE OF INWARD PROJECTIONS AND OF A SIZE NORMALLY EFFECTIVE TO PERMIT TABLET MOVEMENT TOWARD SAID OVAL-SHAPED OPENING, AND DEPRESSIBLE MEANS FORMING AN INTEGRAL PORTION OF SAID BODY ADJACENT SAID PERIPHERAL EDGE FOR CHANGING THE OVAL-SHAPE OF SAID OPENING TO A GENERALLY CIRCULAR SHAPE WHEREBY A SINGLE TABLET CAN BE DISPENSED THROUGH SAID OPENING AND ALSO CHANGING THE CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTION OF THE ADJACENT BODY PORTION TO A GENERALLY OVAL-SHAPED CROSS-SECTIONAL CONFIGURATION WHEREBY REMAINING TABLETS IN SAID BODY ARE RETAINED THEREIN, SAID DEPRESSIBLE MEANS COMPRISING A DEPRESSIBLE WALL BETWEEN SAID BODY PORTION AND SAID PERIPHERAL EDGE, SAID DEPRESSIBLE WALL DEFINING A TABLET-RECEIVING CHAMBER HAVING AN AXIAL LENGTH CORRESPONDING GENERALLY TO THE THICKNESS OF TABLETS PACKAGED IN SAID BODY.