Abstract: An integrated keyholder/container to facilitate carrying keys together with other important items, such as medication or a wheel lock. The unit includes a cylindrical member with a side wall terminating in an end wall to form a large receptacle. A cap removably covers a large receptacle and has an arm extending outwardly from its side wall. The arm has a bore through which a key ring passes. Another cap removably covers the end wall forming a small receptacle. The cap has a transparent end wall. The small receptacle contains a watch movement whose face is visable through the transparent end wall.

Abstract: Container apparatus for medicinal tablets includes a generally cylindrical housing and a bore in the housing for receiving medicinal tablets in a stacked, orderly arrangement so that the tablets are able to move laterally only a minimum amount so that minimum pulverizing of the tablets occurs in common usage. The housing also includes insulation features for insulating the tablets so that the tablets are maintained at a relatively constant temperature. A cap is secured to the housing, and the cap includes provisions for transporting the container apparatus and for fastening the container to a key ring, or the like.

Abstract: A tamper proof cap is set forth including a base for interconnection to a container of pills or the like to be dispensed. An intermediate portion is rotatably mounted between said base and an upper portion said upper portion is keyed for a non-rotating interfitting relationship with respect to said base portion. An integrally formed downwardly projecting tab formed to said upper portion is positioned within a circular groove formed within said intermediate portion. A first channel formed within said base portion communicates with a second channel on said intermediate portion to enable a capsule to be rotatably repositioned to an exit opening within said upper portion. An effort to reintroduce a capsule to said container is precluded due to said positioning of said downwardly projecting tab relative to said first channel ratcheting of said intermediate portion relative to said base portions enabling unidirectional rotation only.

Abstract: There is provided a dispenser with a casing for tablets, capsules and the like, with a drop-out opening closed by a slide for dispensing one tablet at a time, the opening being disposed at the end of a tablet feed duct designed to hold a plurality of tablets in a prearranged position. A shaking/vibrating motion is imparted to the tablet feed duct during dispensing of a tablet so as to prevent bridging of the tablets and blocking of the dispensing passageway.

Abstract: A medicinal container is constructed of a holder adapted to receive and hold a bottle containing the medicinal tablets. The open top portion of the bottle is threadedly engaged with a cap for providing an air-tight seal. A chain is secured to an ear portion of the holder and is adapted to extend around the neck of the user.

Abstract: A unitary child-resistant container for pills and the like includes a rectangular tray-shaped body member to which a top closure member is connected by an integral hinge. The top closure member includes a front wall that is normally latched to the front wall of the body member by a latch device that is released by a release button that extends outwardly from the deformable front wall of the body member through a corresponding opening contained in the closure member front wall. Consequently, opening of the container requires the simultaneous depression of the release button and the application of a vertical lifting force on the top closure member. Stiffening ribs may be provided on the underside of the top closure member for frictional engagement with the inner surfaces of the body member side walls, thereby to further retain the closure member in the closed position. Preferably, the container is molded in one step from synthetic plastic material.

Abstract: A tamper proof bottle is provided so that when a person removes a cap from a collar on a container an attached line therebetween causes a membrane within a recessed portion of the cap to break allowing dye liquid to come out onto a cotton padding above pills therein.

Abstract: A parallelepiped container, in particular for loose confectionery products such as chocolates, caramels, tablets, sugar-coated pills or the like, which is formed from a flat, one-piece, die-cut blank by folding the constituent panels and end flaps of the flat blank along prearranged creasing lines, and sticking together prearranged zones, in such a manner as to obtain the container in the form of two parts which are axially slidable in the manner of a drawer one inside the other, the sliding causing mobile end panels of the container to rotate in order to open and/or close it.

Abstract: A container for storing and dispensing small objects, such as capsules or pills containing medicament, one at a time, consists of a receptacle containing, within itself, a delivery mechanism including a funnel-shaped exit port for capsules and a capsule or pill delivery tube at the end of said funnel-shaped exit designed to accommodate no more than one pill or capsule. This funnel divides the outer receptacle into an upper storage compartment and a lower delivery compartment. The receptacle also contains between the exit end of the receptacle and the delivery tube a resilient gate member positioned to prevent or allow escape of a capsule or pill from the delivery tube. The inner end of the receptacle is pressed into or twisted in the user's hand which moves the resiliently mounted gate members, thus opening the delivery tube and delivering a single small object to the user.

Abstract: A tamper-resistant package for articles such as pharmaceuticals and medicine which are themselves first enclosed within a first closed and sealed container. The first container is then enclosed within a second container, there being a void between the two containers. The second container includes a lid which is secured over its opening. Positioned between the lid and the opening of the second container is a permanently adhered thin sheet of elastic material or membrane which is impermeable to gas or liquid. This membrane is permanently adhered to the opening of the second container after the sealed first container and a portion of solid chemical material possessing the physical property of sublimation is placed into the void.

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 tablet or capsule dispenser includes a neck member (12) for forming an entrance through which tablets or capsules to be dispensed must pass to get to laterally-positioned delivery compartments (28) downstream thereof. A baffle member (14) is affixed to the neck member for defining baffle openings (42) which are aligned with each of the delivery compartments (28). A one-way rotary carousel member (16), positioned between the stationary baffle member (14) and the delivery compartments (28), has a rotating opening (50) therein which, when aligned with the delivery compartments allows tablets or capsules therein to be dispensed.

Abstract: A child resistant container for pills and the like has a tray which slidably engages a lid and is locked in a fully closed position as a spring arm on the tray urges a locking detent on the arm into engagement with a locking aperture located in an adjacent side wall of the lid. Manual depression of the detent releases the tray for opening as an exposed front wall thereof is pulled.

Abstract: A receptacle which may be locked in either a closed or an open position having a cap attached by at least one locking tab to a container, the cap being biased away from the container, said receptacle being capable of varying degrees of restraint toward movement between the open and the closed positions.

Abstract: A small flip-top container which can be opened and shut using one hand is closed at one end by a stopper having a skirt which grips the inside of the container resiliently and a rectangular end wall with an aperture which extends for a certain distance from one of the minor sides. The aperture is closeable by a flap which is hinged integrally to the end wall at the inner end of the aperture and is held shut by the snap-engagement of a transverse heel formed on a projection from the free end of the internal surface of the flap in a complementary transverse groove from in the minor wall of the skirt immediately below the outer end of the aperture. In order that the flap can be snapped open and shut without excessive force, the frontal edge of the minor wall of the skirt defining the top of the groove has a central part which projects outwardly relative to its lateral parts, over which the heel must pass.

Abstract: A container in the form of a packaging having at least one supporting or receptacle part such as for medicaments or the like, which if necessary or desired are contained in a separate medicament vessel and a lid which is slidable on guiding strips on the receptacle part. The slidable engagement of the lid and receptacle is effected by longitudinal edge portions on the lid or receptacle engaging in grooves on the other part. At opposite ends of the container, flaps made at least in part of flexible or reversible material are provided and, when the container is closed serve as stops which restrict relative movement between the lid and the receptacle. The flaps may be bendable, or removable or contain projections which may engage in recesses when the container is closed.

Abstract: A tamper resistant closure member adapted to be affixed to a dispensing container includes an inner housing affixed to the opening of the container. The inner housing has an opening and a recessed portion about the opening. A leaf member is positioned over the opening within the recess and is secured about its edge surface to the inner housing. An outer housing is rotatably nested over the inner housing. The outer housing includes an opening and a projection adjacent the opening. The projection is adapted to be received within the recess to engage and substantially close a leaf member as the opening of the outer housing is rotated in communication with the recess.

Abstract: An article dispenser discloses a vessel for storing at least one of the articles. Such dispenser has a sphere pivotally suspended from the vessel for rotation in only one direction about a singular first axis that is offset from a second axis and which second axis passes through the center of gravity of the sphere. The first axis lies in a plane that bisects the sphere into a pair of hemispheres where one of the hemispheres is heavier than the other hemisphere. The lesser heavy hemisphere has a cavity overlying and adjacent to the first axis and also adjacent to one of the pivotal suspension points. The article is conveyed from its stored location within the vessel into the cavity and from the cavity to a location external to the vessel by impelling the sphere. A variation of the disclosure includes a sphere that has an axis at which the sphere is pivotally rotated and which axis passes through the center of gravity of the sphere.

Abstract: A dispensing container for dispensing articles one at a time. The dispensing container includes a hollow body for storing articles. A delivery throat forming a continuous depending extension of the body has a cross section proximate the cross section of the articles disposed in the hollow body to serially align the articles passing therethrough from the hollow body. The throat is formed with an upturned end defining a lower trap portion adjacent the end which permits only one article at a time to be moved to the end of the throat. An outlet aperture is formed at the end of the throat. A closure member is mounted at the end of the throat for movement between a first position closing the outlet aperture and a second position opening the outlet aperture.

Abstract: A dispenser of dispensing tabets one at a time has a reservoir, a chamber below the reservoir in which the tablets are arranged in a single layer and a dispensing passageway which leads to a dispensing orifice. The passageway is of such a width that a single column of tablets can be accommodated. The passageway is defined by portions of a moving slider member and can be moved from a non-dispensing position to a dispensing position. In this latter position the lowermost tablet is dispensed whereas the remaining tablets in the column are retained in the passageway by a fixed protuberance. One side of the passageway is resilient to minimize tablet damage. The slider member is adapted to assist the passage of tablets from the reservoir to the chamber.

Abstract: A storage and individualized dosage container for pills, tablets and the like consists essentially of a hollow storage receptacle and a closure cap. The receptacle terminates at its upper extremity in an open mouth. The closure cap includes a bottom wall and sidewalls which together define a compartment dimensioned to contain pills, tablets, etc. of the type stored within the receptacle in lesser quantity. The bottom and sidewalls of the closure cap are proportioned and possess sufficient rigidity such that the closure cap is insertable as a plug into the mouth of the receptacle to selectively seal the same. The closure cap has an opening formed therein at a location remote from its bottom wall. A lid is integral with the closure cap and is movable selectively relative to the opening therein to either close the opening or expose it to provide access to the contents of the compartment in the closure cap.

Abstract: A child proof medicine vial is provided having a bead for mating in a recess in a flange in the cap whereby the cap is tightly secured to the vial. The cap is provided with a recess and complimentary slots and inner chamber whereby a panel may be slidable into and out of the cap. When the panel is fully inserted in the cap, there are no projections on the cap for facilitating removal of the cap from the vial. When fully retracted from the cap, the panel permits the user to raise the cap thus permitting access to the vial. When fully retracted, the panel may have indicia to the effect that the vial is nonchild proof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a container which is notably intended to hold pills, and it comprises on the one hand an external, rigid envelope 10 and on the other hand an internal envelope 11 enclosing the pills, this internal envelope being elastically deformable and capable of an increase in volume which is sufficient for absorbing the surplus pressure resulting from the packing of the pills when the lid is applied, without crushing the pills.In a first embodiment, the internal envelope 11 is cylindrical and it has a convex, deformable base 12.In a second embodiment, the internal envelope is a sleeve provided with at least one slit allowing its radial expansion.

Abstract: A tamper-proof package for articles, such as medicine, is disclosed. The package comprises a first container into which the articles to be protected are placed. A second container made of a substantially gas impermeable material encloses the first container. The space between the first and second containers is filled with a pressurized gas such as air and the second container is sealed. Two elastic layers are tightly stretched about the second container and sealed.

Abstract: A capsule for housing pellets is disclosed having two members, the first with a raised portion and the second with a connecting groove and an annular groove for interconnection with the raised portion to secure the two members together.

Abstract: A pill container for wearing by a user requiring medicine which can be quickly and easily reached in in an emergency situation comprising a portion of the container wearable from the body of a user, another separable tubular portion for containing the actual medicinal pills therewithin, and gasket structure mounted on the insert member for the dual function of securely holding the separable cup-like compartment together with the suspended insert and also permitting quick separation thereof in an emergency as well as excluding moisture and other contaminants from any medicine contained within the removable cup-like portion.

Abstract: A pill bottle having a conventional closure is provided with a flexible member for dividing the interior of the bottle into two compartments, one for the total supply of pills and the other for the daily dosage of pills. Upon removal of the conventional closure, the flexible member can be deflected to cover the total supply of pills or, in other words, to close the total supply compartment so that when the bottle is inverted to dispense a pill, the pill can only fall from the daily dosage compartment.

Abstract: A reusable loose dose medication dispensing container is provided which includes a main compartment and a reserve compartment. In its preferred form a removeable cardboard band is placed around the container. The band is provided with color coded information assisting in the dispensing of the medication.

Abstract: This invention relates to a pill box comprised of three parts including a shell bottom, a shell top and a slip ring so interrelated that the slip ring holds the top and bottom parts assembled with the slip ring rotatable relative to the assembled parts. The top and bottom parts are nonrotative relative to each other and are formed to cooperate to form a pill discharge opening normally closed by the slip ring with the ring formed with an opening adapted to be aligned with the discharge opening for discharge of a pill from the assembled box.

Abstract: A child-resistant package in which a plug type closure has an annular seal acting radially outwardly against the internal wall of the circular opening to provide a seal. A pair of spaced fulcrums are provided by which the closure is tilted relative to the container to disengage the seal and move the closure into a position from which it can be removed from the opening in the container.

Abstract: A hydrophilic or hydrotropic peroxyacid laundry bleach with surfactant plus an acid additive, contained inside a pouch, bag or substrate, provides an accelerated controlled bleach release laundry product.

Abstract: A container for the dispensing of tablets one by one in which, below a drop-out chamber arranged below a sorting trough the container wall has a tablet drop-out opening in front of which, in each case, one of the tablets is released by spring-loaded sliding movement so as to drop out. Two housing caps supplement each other to form the container and can be telescopically inserted one within the other, one of the housing caps forming the drop-out chamber below the sorting trough which is formed by the two housing caps together, the drop-out opening of the chamber being closed in the relaxed position of the spring by a wall section of the other housing cap, the last-mentioned housing cap having a division finger which in the pushed-together position of the two housing caps closes off the sorting trough from the drop-out chamber.

Abstract: An improved container and lid construction includes a rectangular box of molded plastic with one pair of opposed sides of the box having a shaped lip member that cooperates with a compatible shaped flange member of the lid. The lid is fabricated from an extruded plastic material and designed to snap on the top of the box in an automatic filling operation. The lid may then be slidably removed from the box.

Abstract: A dispenser for granular material includes a casing having an outlet for holding the material, a cap rockably mounted on top of the casing, and a spring for biasing the cap in a clockwise direction. The cap is formed with a groove into which a predetermined or desired amount of the material rolls when the dispenser is turned upside down. By returning it to its normal position and pressing down the front end of the cap, the groove will communicate with the outlet so that the predetermined amount of the material feeds out through the outlet.

Abstract: A molded plastic pill box has a lid hinged by a living hinge at one side of its top so the box can be loaded by a pill manufacturer, the lid when swing closed, permanently locking against reopening. The lid has a pill dispensing opening and a child-resistant closure hinged by a living hinge to the other side of the box top and normally closing the dispensing opening. The box forms a package for the pills and which can be sold by the pill manufacturer to a druggist, an adult purchaser being capable of opening the child-resistant closure for dispensing of the packaged pills. The entire box can be a one-piece molding for minimum cost.

Abstract: A medicine container of opaque or translucent material is provided with an aperture to allow one to clearly view the contents of the container. In one embodiment of the invention, the container is characterized by a transparent window in the cylindrical side wall thereof, while two other embodiments provide for a transparent bottom to the container.

Abstract: A container for holding articles and a method for forming this container. The container comprises a support structure having a first bag disposed inside of the support structure and a second bag sealed closely about the outside of the support structure. The first bag is sealed about the articles and bonded to the second bag to hold the container in one piece after the bags have been opened to reach the articles. The method comprises the steps of sealing the first bag about the articles and placing it in the support structure; sealing the second bag about the support structure; shrinking, by heating, the second bag until it forms a closely fitting sealed surface about the support structure; and forming a bond between the first and second bags to hold the container in one piece after it is opened.

Abstract: The invention provides a dual purpose container and dispenser especially adapted for comestible products encased in disposable waste material such as edible nuts and seeds having shells and wrapped candies. The dual purpose container and dispenser includes a housing adapted to contain the comestible products and a divider movable within the housing and adapted to divide the housing into two separate compartments. The housing is provided with at least two openings, the first of which openings is in communication with one compartment and is adapted for dispensing comestible products contained therein and the second of which openings is in communication with the other compartment and is adapted for the insertion of disposable waste material into the other compartment; the arrangement being such that upon the emptying of the compartment containing the comestible products, the other compartment is adapted to increase in volume as a result of the movement of the divider to accommodate additional waste material.

Abstract: A secure bottle for storing of pills, or the like, wherein the novel cap member comprises a rotatable member and a stationary member positioned for relative rotation with one another; the rotation being opposed by a biasing means between said members; and the rotation also being opposed by a locking construction engaging the member until the upper member is lifted free thereof.

Abstract: A pill box has a sliding cover for a bottom part having a rim on which an elastically compressible gasket is positioned, providing moisture-proofness. By a programmed squeezing together and sliding action the cover may be slid from the bottom part to gain access to the box's interior, the programmed actions making the box child-resistant. The gasket functions both as a seal and as a spring which keeps the cover and bottom part biased apart.

Abstract: A dispensing and storage container for various articles, particularly pills, wherein the stored articles are readily available when needed, without risking the chance of the container being opened accidentally, the container comprising a cover adapted to slidably received a rectangular receptacle formed to define a compartment. The cover includes longitudinal side walls having channels disposed therein to slidably receive rail members integrally formed along the side walls of the receptacle. To prevent accidental opening of the container the forward wall of the receptacle is provided with a lock recess in which a locking lug is removable received, the locking lug being integrally formed along the forward edge of the cover.

Abstract: A "childproof" container having reproducible opening and closing characteristics is disclosed. The container is an integrally formed, one-piece, plastic container having a bottom section and an overlying top section hinged to the bottom section. A latching assembly which prevents undesirable "relock" when the container is being opened is featured. The portion of the locking assembly which is carried by the bottom section comprises an upwardly projecting latching lug which is thicker at its distal end than at its proximate end. The top section carries the other portion of the locking assembly which features a downwardly projecting latching protuberance on its top wall and an inwardly projecting latching protuberance on its front wall. The two protuberances are spaced apart so that the distance between them is less than the distal thickness of the latching lug carried by the bottom section.

Abstract: A container is disclosed for dispensing loose, solid, small size articles, like tablets, pills and other confectionary products, comprising a casing and a closure device, the latter including a lid member having a portion extending beyond the hinge axis between the lid and the casing, and operating means pivoted to the container and adapted to engage said portion of the lid, whereby on actuating said operating means the lid is opened by rotating around the hinge axis, the lid being further urged towards its closure condition by elastic means.

Abstract: A tamper-resistant container containing a pharmaceutical preparation, wherein the container is a removable full-panel easy-open metal top end closure having an opening tab for irreversibly removing said end closure, whereby once the end closure is opened, that fact will be readily ascertainable from the appearance of the container.