Abstract: A dispenser for tablets from a number of containers each mounted in an inverted position on a rotating support member. Each container is provided with a receiving cap having two angularly disposed passages therein. Each cap is rotatably mounted in a corresponding recess in the support member. The base of the recess is provided with an angularly disposed channel which when aligned with one passage of the receiving means permits a tablet to pass through to the user. The location and angular orientation of passage and channel when in registration results in the dispensing of a single tablet from a container through the support member.

Abstract: A multi-compartmented pill dispenser having a plurality of vertical compartment modules. Each module has a sloping floor to facilitate the removal of pills from the dispenser. The dispenser is resiliently supported at its base to provide vibratory motion when tapped. A locking mechanism includes a bar adjacent the doors of the compartment modules. The bar is movable between a locked position in which the doors are engaged and a released position in which the doors are free to open.

Abstract: A pill dispenser employing a cartridge contained within and rotatably mounted to a housing. The housing includes a cover and a base. The base has a post extending to receive the cartridge and a dispensing hole therethrough. The cover includes a boss having an asymmetry which allows for alignment of the cartridge when positioned on the cover. The cartridge includes holes at first radially equal locations from the center of the cartridge with one blank space therein and a second row of holes inwardly thereof. Thus, multiple pills may be dispensed through the dispensing hole in the base on a multiple cycle basis.

Abstract: A receptacle for dispensing insulin in prescribed dosages and a method of administering daily dosages of insulin.

Abstract: A wrist band holds a base containing a rotor having bores effective to hold pellets. Upon manual rotating of the periphery of the rotor relative to the base, the pellets are lifted or partially ejected for easy individual grasping by the user.

Abstract: A package for articles is particularly suitable for small dental tools and fittings.The package includes a base member and a rotary member mounted for rotation relative to the base member.A circular space for the articles is defined between the base member and the rotary member and the space is divided into radial compartments arranged to receive the articles.The base member also defines a chute leading to a pocket, the chute communicating with the compartments for dispensing the articles upon rotation of the rotary member.The rotary member is transparent for viewing the articles in the compartments and the rotary member is indexable to ensure retention and release of articles from the compartments.

Abstract: A container for holding small parts and the like of cylindrical construction having a body with a number of wedge-shaped cavity compartments closed by a rotatable lid having an opening for accessing each of the cavities. A tab removably closes the opening and contains a pair of stops which project into one of the cavities. The tabs interact with the walls defining the cavities in the body portion to prevent rotation of the lid until the tab has been removed, thereby preventing pilferage of the container contents. The lid is joined to the body by a snap fit.

Abstract: Easy opening article storing and dispensing containers and method in which puzzle-like locking means secure against access to the container contents by very young children by obscuring the mode of opening it. The cannular container shell has closable dispensing aperture means opening through the shell side wall. Locking means at one or more ends of the shell optionally prevents or permits opening and closing of the container by alignment or offset of release means with respect to a sliding means. Pills or other units may be segregated in separate amounts or dosages within the container and dispensed in predetermined sequence from a plurality of rings of radially openable compartments forming a stack in which rows of compartments around the container axis can be rotated to sequentially register with the aperture means and compartments of each row sequentially opened.

Abstract: A childproof package has multiple pharmaceutical products in spaced relation within a receptacle. An open side of the receptacle is closed by a tough closure layer sealed to a flange on the receptacle. The receptacle includes a wall which facilitates moving one of the products toward the other until they are sufficiently juxtaposed whereby the products cooperate to apply a combined force sufficient to rupture the closure layer as the package is bent along an imaginary transverse line.

Abstract: A pill dispenser is disclosed which includes a container having a plurality of compartments for containing pills and which is coaxially mounted in combination with a pair of indexing members which can be aligned with selected container compartments to release the pills therein. The compartments in the container and apertures in the indexing members are so arranged as to provide controlled dispensed medication for a week or a month.

Abstract: The invention relates to devices employed to contain and dispense snuff and the like. Reduction of tendencies to jam and enhance compactness, portability and operability are achieved by an inhaler (12) bearing a projection (21), attached over a member (13) having snuff storage bores (33). Rotation of the inhaler aligns the projection with each bore sequentially. Structure (14) is provided for facilitating, and temporarily locking, this alignment.

Abstract: A method, formulation, and steroid drug delivery system for the administration of sex steroids for menstrual cycle regulation is disclosed. The invention is useful in clinical applications for pregnancy spacing and treatment of menstrual dysfunction. Progestin and estrogen are administered in a treatment cycle mimicking sex steroid hormones in the normal menstrual cycle. The steroid treatment cycle is divided into arbitrary and discrete follicular and luteal phase segments beginning with the onset of menstruation. In the early segment of the follicular phase no exogenous steroid is administered. Depending on the clinical and/or physiologic situation of a patient, unopposed progestin or estrogen is then administered.

Abstract: A pill dispenser is disclosed which includes a container having a plurality of compartments for containing pills and which is coaxially mounted in combination with a pair of indexing members which can be aligned with selected container compartments to release the pills therein. The compartments in the container and apertures in the indexing members are so arranged as to provide controlled dispensed medication for a week or a month.

Abstract: An automatic periodic pharmaceutical preparation dispenser, for alerting patients under medication when specific drugs are to be taken. The device provides orderly storage of a plurality of drugs to be taken in a given time period with a coding associated with each pill. The device further provides a timer having a signal device responsive thereto to indicate when a specific medicament is to be taken and at a predetermined time interval relative to previously administered drugs. In the several embodiments shown, the timer comprises a clock mechanism; a time chip totalizer; and a signal responsive paging device all of which are arranged to indicate when and which pharmaceutical preparation is to be taken.

Abstract: A package for retaining sewing machine needles in a plurality of compartments. Means are provided for selecting a needle stored in a compartment by rotating a base containing a dispensing slot until the slot is aligned with an aperture of the desired needle compartment. An information disc, containing needle selection information, is interposed between the compartments and the base. Needle data may be read through an aperture or frame contained on the base, thereby advising the sewer of the appropriate uses for the needles contained within the selected compartment.

Abstract: An improved container for medications and the like includes a first section having therein a plurality of compartments with a second section mounted to the first section in overlying relationship to the compartments with the second section including mounting means permitting the second section to be indexed to any one of a plurality of positions relative to the first section. The second section has an opening therein to permit access to any one of the compartments after such section has been indexed to any one of the above mentioned positions. The container includes locking means for securing the second section at any one of the positions indicated above, the locking means including a catch means movably mounted to one of the sections and engageable with any one of several recesses provided in the other section.

Abstract: A pill dispenser device is disclosed comprising a circular base provided with a plurality of circumferentially spaced compartments defined therein. A knurled actuator ring is provided having the same circumference as the base which is affixed to the base outside of the compartments therein and is rotatable within limits defined by an opening in the ring which cooperates with a stop in the base. A cover is provided rotatably attached to the base having a single pill exit opening formed thereon. The cover is also provided with a plurality of ratchet teeth which cooperates with the knurled ring and the base for advancing the pill exit into alignment with successive compartments to allow the removal of individual pills therefrom.