Medicine organizer device

• US 6,860,390 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2002
• Issued: 03/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: William Kenneth Bowman
• Original Assignee: William Kenneth Bowman
• Inventors: Bowman, William Kenneth
• Primary Examiner(s): BUI, LUAN KIM
• Application Number:
  US10/076,297
• Publication Number:
  US 20020121453A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,111 Days
• Field of Search: 206/528, 206/534, 206/538, 206/539, 206/540, 206/459.5, 403/10, 190/100, 190/109
• US Class Current: 206/534
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 77/0446 the inner and outer containers being rigid or semi-rigid and the outer container being of polygonal cross-section not formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks B65D81/3825 takes precedence

Abstract

This invention allows medications to be held in bottles in a “medicine organizer device” in such a way that all medications can be identified and taken by the user easily and safely and at the appropriate time. It minimizes the risks associated with forgetting to take medication. The invention facilitates direct transfer of the appropriate dosage of medicine to the patient'"'"'s mouth without the need of hand contact that in addition to sanitary considerations can lead to dropping the medication before oral ingestion.

Claims

1. A medicine organizer device comprising:

A holding device for a plurality of medicine containers to be arranged in a sequential order, said holding device further being in a form of a briefcase;

plurality of containers having a cap covering an opening, said containers being capable of holding an one time medication portion of a user, said containers being further attached right side up to said holding device when containing the one time medication portion, said containers being attached right side down to said holding device when empty, said opening being sized so that it can be placed fully in between lips of the user to ingest the one time medication portion by tilting the container, thereby eliminating the risk of dropping or spilling the one time medication portion placed inside said container;

and a labeling system enabling recognition of each container arranged in the device.

2. The medicine organizer device claimed in claim 1 wherein the medicine containers are bottles.

3. The medicine organizer device claimed in claim 1 wherein the medicine containers are capped tubes.

4. The medicine organizer device claimed in claim 1 wherein the medicine containers allow liquid medicine to be stored therein.

5. The medicine organizer device claimed in claim 1 wherein the medicine containers allow solid medicine to be stored therein.

6. The medicine organizer device claimed in claim 1 wherein the labeling system includes labels to be attached on the containers to indicate individual days.

7. The medicine organizer device claimed in claim 1 wherein the labeling system includes labels to be attached on the containers for different times of a day.

8. The medicine organizer device claimed in claim 7 wherein the labels allows the containers to be labeled in a time frame “

morning”

, “

lunch” and

“

evening”

.

9. The medicine organizer claimed in claim 1 wherein the labeling system comprises color codes in the containers to indicate a specific time of consumption of the medicine.