Pill Organizer and Dispenser
a technology of pill organizer and dispenser, which is applied in the field of pill organizer, can solve the problems of affecting the ability of the person to open and retrieve the correct dosage of pills, difficult or impossible, and minor physical limitations of fingers and hands, and achieves the effect of reducing the demands for manual dexterity
Inactive Publication Date: 2010-06-17
MUSGRAY CHARLES
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"The present invention is an organizer and dispenser for pills that reduces the need for manual dexterity when retrieving pills. It has multiple compartments that can be filled with pills by gravity, eliminating the need for careful grasping and discharging of pills from adjoining compartments. The organizer and dispenser have a common closure at the top, making it easy to fill each compartment with pills. This invention provides an efficient and cost-effective solution for organizing and dispensing pills."
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Consumers of pills may be elderly, or otherwise afflicted with minor physical limitations of the fingers and hands, such as arthritis and Parkinson's disease.
Such limitations may adversely affect the ability of the person to open and retrieve a correct dosage of pills.
This may be difficult or impossible for those having infirmities of the sort noted above.
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[0017]FIGS. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings show an organizer and dispenser 10 for organizing and dispensing small objects such as pills, such as pills 2, 4, 6. The organizer and dispenser 10, which is intended to contain these small objects and to make it easy to retrieve the small objects while demanding minimal manual dexterity and effort, comprises a plurality of compartments 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24. The compartments 12 . . . 24 may be bounded by a common front wall 26 and a common rear wall 28, and may be separated yet connected by partitions 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40. End compartments 12 and 24 may have respective end walls 42 and 44. The common front wall 26, the common rear wall 28, the partitions 30 . . . 40, the left end wall 42, and the right end wall 44 may be formed monolithically by molding a rigid polymeric material for example.
[0018]Such a construction leaves each of the compartments 12 . . . 24 with a first open side (for example, the respective top sides) and a second ...
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The present invention provides an organizer and dispenser for pills and the like which reduces demands for manual dexterity when the user retrieves the pills. In one aspect of the invention, the novel organizer and dispenser may have a plurality of compartments, such as one for each day of the week. The organizer and dispenser may have a closure at the top which reveals all of the compartments simultaneously. This is convenient for loading a full week's supply of pills. In addition to the closure at the top, each compartment has an individual closure at the bottom of the compartment. This enables all of the pills stored within one compartment, which are presumably to be taken by the user at one time, to be discharged from the organizer and dispenser by gravity.
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to receptacles, and more particularly to multicompartmented receptacles for organizing medicaments such as pills or tablets and for dispensing the same.[0003]2. Background of the Invention[0004]Increasingly, many people require medicaments in the form of pills or tablets, to be taken each day. A person may be obliged to take several pills or tablets each day. Small containers have been provided as organizers and dispensers so that once loaded with each day's measure of pills, the user need only open the container and retrieve one day's dosage.[0005]Consumers of pills may be elderly, or otherwise afflicted with minor physical limitations of the fingers and hands, such as arthritis and Parkinson's disease. Such limitations may adversely affect the ability of the person to open and retrieve a correct dosage of pills. Many pill organizing dispensers require that the user insert his or her finge...
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IPC IPC(8): B65D83/04H04W72/54
CPCA61J7/04A61J1/03
Inventor MUSGRAY, CHARLES IVY
Owner MUSGRAY CHARLES