PILL DISPENSER

• US 3,807,551 A
• Filed: 08/14/1972
• Issued: 04/30/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Deceased Ankney
• Original Assignee: Deceased Ankney
• Inventors: Ankney, deceased
• Primary Examiner(s): Dixson, Jr., William T.
• Application Number:
  US05/280,651
• Time in Patent Office: 624 Days
• Field of Search: 206/42,56AC 220/31S,27 229/17B,27 312/31,35 221/281
• US Class Current: 206/539
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0445 all the articles being stored in individual compartments

Abstract

A single-piece multicompartment dispensing container is disclosed which is characterized by a plurality of compartments, a plurality of dispensing flaps in a front wall or panel providing individual access to each compartment for dispensing, and a full opening rear panel providing simultaneous access to all compartments for filling. The device is constructed so that it can be molded as a single piece from a material such as polyethylene or polypropylene and is especially useful as a pilldispensing device.

Claims

1. A single-piece multicompartment dispensing container comprising:

a. a marginal wall defining an opening of rectangular configuration having parallel front and rear marginal edges;

b. a front panel covering one end of said opening and being integral with said front marginal edges;

c. a rear panel dimensioned to cover the other end of said opening being continuously integral with said marginal wall along one of said rear marginal edges, the juncture of said rear panel with said marginal wall being of thinner section whereby said rear panel is hingedly secured to said marginal wall for rotational movement between an opened position and a closed position;

d. a plurality of parallel partition members extending between and integral with said marginal wall at opposite sides thereof and integral with said front panel along the partition edge confronting said front panel and defining a plurality of compartments with said front and rear panels and said marginal wall;

e. a plurality of rectangular flaps in said front panel disposed along one of said front marginal edges and openable by rotating said individual flaps whereby the interior of each such compartment is individually exposed;

f. and said rear panel providing a common wall for all of said compartments and simultaneously exposing the interior of all of said compartments when said rear panel is in said opened position.

2. a complementarily beveled lip on the confronting rear marginal edge of said marginal wall for overlapping and retaining the beveled edge of said panel.

3. A dispensing container in accordance with claim 1 including means integral with said container for releasably retaining said rear panel in said closed position, and said rear panel retaining means includes:

4. A container in accordance with claim 1 wherein said flaps are defined by portions of reduced thickness in said front panel whereby said flaps are molded in a closed position, and said rear panel is integral with said marginal wall solely along said one of said rear marginal edges whereby said rear panel is molded in said opened position.

5. A single-piece multicompartment dispensing container comprising:

a. a marginal wall defining an opening having parallel front and rear marginal edges;

b. a front panel covering one end of said opening and being integral with said front marginal edges;

c. a rear panel dimensioned to cover the other end of said opening and being hingedly secured to said marginal wall for rotational movement between an opened position and a closed position;

d. a plurality of partition members integral with said marginal wall and integral with said front panel along the partition edge confronting said front panel and defining a plurality of compartments with said front and rear paneLs and said marginal wall;

e. a plurality of rectangular flaps in said front panel disposed along one of said front marginal edges and openable by rotating said individual flaps whereby the interior of each such compartment is individually exposed, said flaps being defined by portions of reduced thickness in said front panel whereby said flaps are molded in a closed position;

f. and said rear panel being molded in said opened position and providing a common wall for all of said compartments and simultaneously exposing the interior of all of said compartments when said rear panel is in said opened position.