Patents by Inventor Charles E. Joyce

Charles E. Joyce has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5667097
    Abstract: An apparatus for housing multiple shapes and sizes of pills and simultaneously dispensing a single pill of each type, the apparatus comprising a vertically oriented support structure with an upper, middle and lower housing portions, each portion including a plurality of identically sized and spaced conduits. The upper conduits house a plurality of pills, while each of the middle conduits are designed to hold a single pill. The middle housing portion is capable of horizontal motion, and is normally positioned in an initial holding position in which the upper and middle conduits are aligned, and the middle and lower conduits are off-set. When the middle portion is moved into a second, release position, the middle conduits misalign with the upper conduits and align with the lower conduits, thereby allowing the single pill contained within each of the middle conduits to drop through the lower conduits and into the user's hand or, alternately, into a hollow collection area for retrieving the dispensed pills.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Inventor: Charles E. Joyce