Abstract: A programmable medicine dispenser with manual override and color coded medicine canisters comprises a cabinet with a spring loaded door. A vertical magazine with a top loading port and a bottom dispensing port holds a large number of medicine canisters each containing medicine to be taken at one time. The canisters are divided into groups, each group identified by colored patches on the canisters corresponding to the scheduled doses during a day. The door is normally locked by an electro-mechanical latching mechanism to prevent access to the medicine. A programmable electronic timer is set to operate the latching mechanism to unlock the door at selectable times during the day, such that the canisters may be sequentially accessed and the medicine taken in the proper order. When the door is unlocked, it springs open to release a lever switch to activate a lamp and a buzzer to alert the patient or a caretaker that medicine should be taken at that time.

Abstract: A method and computer system manipulates data concerning the health of a plurality of employees, each of the employees working in at least one work location and being identifiable by an employee identification, each of the work locations being identifiable by a work location identification, substances of which at least some are potential hazardous being or having been present in at least one of the work locations, each of the substances being identifiable by a substance identification. The computer system has an updated location data base which stores location identifications and is updatable to store additional location identifications, an updatable employee identification data base which stores employee identifications, an updatable employee health data base for storing employee health data concerning each of the identified employees, and an updatable substance data base which stores substance identifications.

Abstract: A means to monitor the depth of water in a well and to prevent a pump from operating if the water level falls to a predetermined level, consisting of float and weight means operating a depth indicator and cutoff switch.