PILL CONTAINER AND DISPENSER

• US 3,860,111 A
• Filed: 06/11/1973
• Issued: 01/14/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Larry G. Thompson
• Original Assignee: Larry G. Thompson
• Inventors: Thompson, Larry G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Price, William I.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hart, R. E.
• Application Number:
  US05/368,635
• Time in Patent Office: 582 Days
• Field of Search: 206/1.5,42 215/7,9,208 221/266,265 222/23
• US Class Current: 206/534
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0409 the dispensing means being adapted for delivering one article, or a single dose, upon each actuation B65D83/0445 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/807 Tamper proof
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5031 Receptacle

Abstract

A pill container and dispenser has a plurality of independently rotatable discs each having an opening therethrough so that when the openings are aligned a pill may fall therethrough into a compartment having a side opening therein from which the pill is dispensed.

Claims

1. A pill container and dispenser comprising a container having imperforate bottom and side walls and a top wall having a feed opening therethrough, a disc disposed over said top wall and having a feed opening therethrough, a cap member having a bottom wall with a feed opening therethrough and an imperforate, opaque top wall spaced from said bottom wall by a side wall thereby to define within said cap member a pill receiving chamber, means connecting said cap member and said disc to said container for mutually independent rotation about a common axis, said feed openings being equally spaced from said axis, a pill dispensing opening in said side wall of said cap member, and visible means on said cap member, said disc and said container for use in setting said feed openings in mutually aligned relationship.

2. A pill container and dispenser according to claim 1 further comprising a radially extending tab on said disc.

3. A pill container and dispenser according to claim 1 further comprising a second disc having a feed opening therein, said second disc being rotatably mounted between said first mentioned disc and said cap member.

4. A pill container and diepenser according to claim 2 further comprising a plurality of index marks on said container in proximity to said disc, and different visible characters respectively provided on said tabs.

5. A pill container and dispenser according to claim 4 whrein said discs, said cap and said top wall of said container are rotatably interconnected by Means of a rivet.