Abstract: A medicine bottle unit having a closure for indicating dosage and other information which changes automatically as the closure is rotated on the bottle of the unit. The closure includes an outer cap and an inner member within the cap. The cap and inner member have cooperable indicia thereon. The inner member moves with the cap as the cap is rotated in one direction on the bottle. However, the cap moves relative to the bottle and the inner member when the cap is rotated in the opposite direction on the bottle, thus assuring a change in the information represented by the indicia on the cap and the indicator on the inner member, or by indicia on the inner member visible through a hole in the cap. Several embodiments of medicine bottle unit are disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 6, 1986
Date of Patent:
June 28, 1988
Assignees:
Gary J. Mastman, Sheldon Wiley
Inventors:
Gary J. Mastman, Sheldon Wiley, Brian S. Santo
Abstract: A top for attachment to the neck opening of a container, wherein the top has a lower extremity provided with a passage therethrough. The top is molded from a suitable plastic material and has a stopper integral therewith in alignment with the passage at one end thereof. A line of weakness between the top and the stopper allows the stopper to be manually shifted back and forth and broken away from the top. The stopper can then be inverted into the passage to provide a removable stopper for closing the passage.