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Calendar-oriented pill dispenser

  • US 4,736,849 A
  • Filed: 08/12/1985
  • Issued: 04/12/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/19/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A unitary, non-reuseable dispenser for the storage, dispensing, and patient compliance indication of calendar-oriented pills comprising:

  • (A) a plurality of pill-containing enclosures, each enclosure corresponding to only one day of a calendar month, and each day of the calendar month corresponding to at least one enclosure, each enclosure comprising a dome for overlying one pill and rupturable zone positioned below the dome for sealing said pill within the enclosure, said zone being rupturable by downward pressure on the dome so as to release the pill contained within the enclosure;

    (B) a carrier comprising a first sheet overlying the domes of the plurality of pill-containing enclosures, the sheet comprising a plurality of cutouts dimensioned for passage therethrough of the enclosure domes, said cutouts positioned with respect to each other in a manner similar to the spatial relationship of the pill enclosures to each other, and a second sheet overlying the rupturable zones having cutouts corresponding in size to the size of the rupturable zones, said cutouts positioned with respect to each other in a manner similar to the spatial relationship of the rupturable zones to each other, so as to allow the pill released via the rupturable zone to passthrough the corresponding cutout in the second sheet;

    (C) consecutive integer indicia corresponding to each day of the calendar month, the indicia positioned on the first sheet of the carrier in proximity to the domes so that each dome is identified by one and only one of said indicia for a single calendar date and thereby to visually identify each dome with one and only one calandar date of a calendar month; and

    (D) consecutive integer indicia corresponding to each day of the calendar month, the indicia positioned on the second sheet of the carrier in proximity to the rupturable zones so that each zone is identified by one and only one of said indicia for a single calendar date and thereby to visually identity each zone with one and only one calendar date of a calendar month;

    whereby the dispenser stores pills in the plurality of pill-containing enclosures, wherein at least one enclosure corresponds to each day of a calendar month, and wherein the dispenser stores the pills in a manner that provides visual identification of each enclosure from both the front and rear of the dispenser with one and only one calendar date of a calendar month, so that dispensing of pills on a daily basis is facilitated and whereby monitoring of user compliance with the calendar oriented regimen is facilitated by identification of the pill-containing enclosures which are not dispensed for any given calendar date.

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