Abstract: A carton and a die cut for such a carton comprise two parallel lines of weakness corresponding to two edges of a side of the carton. This allows the side to be fully opened by tearing open the lines of weakness, thus giving access along the full width of the opened side. The cartons provide maximized and facilitated access to the contents of the carton.

Abstract: This invention relates to a compartmentalized pill dispenser that is small enough to be carried with the user at all times, seals the pills against moisture and other degrading elements, protects the pills against vibration and is easy to use by an impaired person in an emergency situation. The dispenser has a protective outer case which encases the internal pill carrier which having compartments for pills on one side thereof. The pill carrier is sealed within the sheath by a water-tight mechanism. The pill carrier is extended out of the case in one pill compartment increments to expose a pill.

Abstract: Containers for storing and displaying an object are provided which include a first base member having a transparent area located such that an object to be placed within the container is visible through the transparent area when the container is in a closed position. The containers also include a second base member and a hinge interconnecting the first and the second base members. The first base member is movable with respect to the second base member between a closed position in which the peripheral edges are releasably latchable and an open position in which the base members are at least partially spaced from each other. The closed position defines a hollow interior space for receiving an object to be placed therein. Containers for storing objects which, while not including a transparent area, also include overlapping flanges coextensive with each base member are also provided.

Abstract: A carrier for one or more medication dispensers comprising a bottom wall, opposite upstanding side walls and opposite upstanding end walls. At least one of the carrier walls has a retainer thereon for engagement with one of the walls of a dispenser positioned therein for selectively maintaining the dispenser in the carrier. When it is desired to remove the dispenser from the carrier, the retainer is deflected outwardly out of engagement with the wall of the dispenser so that the dispenser may be removed therefrom.

Abstract: A vial holder assembly (2) includes a generally conventional vial (4) housed within a vial holder (6). Vial holder includes a cup-shaped body (8) and a removable lid (16) mounted to the open end (14) of the body to enclose the vial therein. In one embodiment the lid is designed to coact with or engage with a plastic removable cap (46) mounted to the top of the vial. The removable cap is attached to an annular, frangible central region (42) of the metal closure (38) used to secure the resilient septum (40) to the vial. Removing the cap simultaneously removes the lid and frangible central portion to provide user access to the septum. Another embodiment positions the vial within the body using locating/shock absorbing members (18, 24) situated between the sidewalls (10, 23) and the bottoms (26, 12) of the body and the vial. These accommodate different size vials and help to prevent damage to the vial from physical abuse.

Abstract: Applicant has invented a container for the tablets which contains a plurality of slots arranged in a radial fashion around the center of the container. Each of the slots are configured to accept at least one such frangible tablet. Each tablet is held within the slot and the tablet is constrained within the slot to move solely within the slot. The container contains a bottom and a lid. The bottom and the lid form constraining ends of the slots. The lid contains an opening which may be aligned with any one of the plurality of slots to provide an opening to the container and the ability to remove the tablet from the slot.

Abstract: There is disclosed a medication container which is adapted to be side loaded with unit doses of medication during packaging operations. After being filled with the unit doses of medication, the container side is sealed. The medication doses can be removed by a user from the sealed container by means of a child resistant removable closure at one end of the container.

Abstract: A pill container has a casing with a closed end, an open end, and a chamber. The chamber can hold the pills and communicate with the open end. A cap having an inside surface can releasably attach to the open end and close the casing. A pin is centrally secured at the inside surface of the cap. This pin is positioned to extend into the chamber of the casing when the cap is attached to the casing. A plunger is slidably mounted in the chamber of the casing. A spring mounted in the casing can urge the plunger toward the open end of the casing to hold the pills in position, so that agitation would not tend to powder the pills.

Abstract: A restraining device (10 or 10a) adapted for holding slide carriers (14) immovable in magazines includes a top wall panel (34), at least two horizontal pleated panel sections (36a-36d), and a bottom wall panel (38) all joined together to define a hollow bellows-type structure.

Abstract: There is disclosed a medication container which is adapted to be side loaded with unit doses of medication during packaging operations. After being filled with the unit doses of medication, the container side is sealed. The medication doses can be removed by a user from the sealed container by means of a removable closure at one end of the container.

Abstract: The disclosed invention is a candy tablet dispenser shaped to simulate a beverage can, or the like. What would normally be the pop-top region of the can slides laterally outwardly and, at the same time, ejects a tablet from the top of a stack of tablets that is stored internally. The ejector portion is finger-driven back and forth.

Abstract: A container for a plurality of medicaments to be used in a therapeutic regimen for a patient to facilitate the prescribed sequence and interval of application. The container includes a plurality of generally planar blister cards having medicament containing cavities. Each blister card is adapted to contain a single medicament, and is provided with a marginal region for receiving medicament and administration indicia. The container is further provided with a base for retaining the plurality of blister cards in a generally vertical position with the marginal region of the blister cards extending upmost. The blister cards are retained in sequential arrangement by the prescribed time of day of administration of the medicament contained in each blister card.

Abstract: A resilient cylindrical tubular container for spherical objects such as medicinal pills, includes a stopper with flexible fingers extending into the tube to restrain the objects from movement during shipment. An adsorbent desiccant cushion in the bottom of the tube cushions the objects and keeps them dry. Objects are dispensed by removing the cap, pressing the tube at a point below the number of objects desired, and then inverting the tube to pour out only that number.

Abstract: An aerosol dispenser having a transparent container for storing a propellant and a first compound under pressure. An actuator button normally closes a valve mounted on top of the container to control the dispensing of the materials from the container. An ampule containing a second material separate from the first material until the ampule is broken is positioned generally along the bottom of the container with a saddle shaped foot. A push rod extends from the valve and holds the foot in engagement with the ampule and breaks the ampule when the valve is first moved to its open position. The materials are mixed within the container and are dispensed through a filter mounted on a dip tube leading to the valve.

Abstract: A packaging set for solid articles including a container for accommodating the solid articles therein, and a film cover made of breakable thin film fixedly secured on the opening edge of the container so as to hermetically seal the opening of the container, and a casing including a case having a mouth corresponding to and slightly smaller than that of the opening of the container, and lid lid detachably set onto the case so as to be able to move to close or open the mouth of the case. Side edges of the mouth of the case are applied to press onto the film of the cover of the receptacle to break the film at portions corresponding to at least three sides of the opening of the container. All the solid articles in the container are thus able to transfer into the case at one time, leaving the broken film behind with the container.

Abstract: A medicament package for improving compliance with a therapeutic regimen. The therapeutic regimen involves a plurality of medications administered to a patient in a prescribed sequence and in accordance with specified intervals. The package includes a multiplicity of blister cards of generally uniform planar dimensions. The blister cards carrying the medicaments in sequential order on the individual cards and from card to card. The blister cards being placed in stacked array with the principal dimensions thereof oriented generally horizontally and arranged in order of use with the first to be used topmost. Also included is a base which houses the stack of blister cards and is adapted to support the stack vertically and provides lateral support to the edges of the blister cards. The base permits direct and unobstructed access to the uppermost blister card and limited access only to the edges of the blister cards.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pill dispensing device, and in particular to a device for dispensing birth control pills. The invention includes a multi-sided housing having a plurality of chambers disposed therein. Each chamber houses a plurality of pills which are dispensed one at a time through the opening of the housing by a dispensing device.

Abstract: A method for orienting and stacking primers one on top of another in a vertical upright position inside of a tubular receptacle.An apparatus with a slotted hopper and a gate to orient and stack primers in a removable tubular receptacle one on top of another in a vertical fashion. The apparatus can include a vibrator to facilitate orientation of the primers in the hopper and to speed passage of the primers through the apparatus. The apparatus may further include a handle to allow it to be held in one hand. In an alternative embodiment, the tubular receptacle is not removable from the gate. Another embodiment has a smooth hopper and a tubular receptacle to receive and stack primers one on top of another.An alternative embodiment of the apparatus has a removable gate and a removable receptacle to accommodate different sized primers.

Abstract: A hygienic dispenser for hard candies and medicaments in wafer form, each package of which is constituted by a stack of such wafers protectively sealed in an inner foil wrapper to create a roll that is surrounded by a removable outer sleeve. The dispenser includes a tubular container for receiving the roll through its open end and to seat it on an axially-advanceable platform which urges the roll upwardly. Covering the open end of the container and pivoted thereto is a cap whose thickness corresponds to that of a wafer. The cap is laterally swingable to a cocked position in which the open end is uncovered to release the roll which is then advanced by the platform to engage a visor projecting from the top of the cap, thereby exposing the uppermost wrapped wafer. When the cap is swung back to again cover the open end, it acts to sever the wrapper and discharge the uppermost wafer, the next wafer in the roll then engaging the cap in readiness for the next operation.

Abstract: This invention relates to a container for carrying temperature-sensitive materials, having a case and inner chamber separated by a cavity containing thermal insulation, characterized in that the thermal insulating means includes a heat sink whereby the contents of the inner cavity is protected from a temperature increase for a period sufficient to avoid deterioration under normal conditions of use.

Abstract: A convertible three-ball to two-ball golf ball container wherein a pair of thin-wall cylindrical tubes, which are opened at adjoining ends and have semi-spherical closed opposite ends, are telescoped together and closely accommodate three or two golf balls in abutting relation.

Abstract: A system for making sweets and similar articles of food available to the user. The system comprises a holder adapted to be affixed to e.g. an automobile dashboard, and a package, preferably a blister pack, containing the sweets, and adapted to be slid into the holder so as to rest upon a support. The package can be opened so that the sweets, lying on the support, can be taken out individually.Preferably several unit packs are interconnected and can be separated by perforations or other tearing lines.

Abstract: A tablet dispenser is disclosed having an elongate hand-held core with a plurality of cavities adapted to contain tablets. A sheath is mounted to the core for slideable movement from a position covering all the cavities to another position uncovering all the cavities. A detent mechanism is employed between the sheath and the core for interrupting the sliding movement after each of the cavities has been uncovered. For spatially orienting the tablet dispenser, and without the need to look at it, distinct physical touch indicia is fixed to the dispenser in lengthwise alignment with the tablet cavities.

Abstract: Implants may be placed in animals in the field with a system including an implanter and cartridge-like container for a plurality of implants. The cartridge is transparent and encloses a plurality of enlongated implants arranged side-to-side, transverse to the central axis of the cartridge. The implants may be moved manually along the central axis of the cartridge toward one end and stopped in alignment parallel with the end of the cartridge and with one implant aligned with a pair of openings in the cartridge, one at each end of the implant. The implanter carries a sharpened tubular needle and a plunger, slidable along an axis aligned with the central axis of the tubular needle. The implanter has an opening into which the cartridge may be fitted and retained.

Abstract: A two piece combination of a container and cap, wherein the neck portion of the container and the flange of the cap have interengaging locking elements for securing the pieces together. A generally cylindrical flexible wall is an extension of the container neck, and terminates in annular free end perpendicular to the container neck. This annular free end engages an internally beveled surface of the cap, such that when the locking elements are engaged, the annular free end is deflected radially inwardly to provide an axially biasing force maintaining the elements engaged and also providing a seal between that member and the cap beveled surface.

Abstract: A waterproof pill container especially adapted to hold pills and the like is disclosed. In addition to a container base having an open top adapted to be closed by a cover, closure means are provided for continually urging the cover into watertight sealing engagement with the peripheral edge that forms the open top of the container base. Such closure means includes a post attached to and downwardly dependent from the inner portions of the cover and to which a laterally extending crossbar is rotatably engaged. Also the container base is provided with a pair of inwardly extending flanges under which the ends of the crossbar are adapted to engage, thereby establishing anchor points against which the cover may be tightly drawn into sealing engagement with the container base to assure a watertight fit between the two members.

Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing pills or tablets in a predetermined sequential order, including a pill container, a dispensing cap, and sequence indicating indicia associated therewith. The container is a cylinder, preferably transparent, having spaced annularly arranged bores extending thereinto from a first end thereof, with each of the bores adapted to hold a predetermined number of pills or tablets arranged in a single column therein. A dispensing cap fits over the first end of the container and engages with the container to be rotatable thereon and is adapted so that as it is rotated on the container each of the annularly arranged bores is accessed in an annular sequence to permit the pills or tablets within the accessed bore to be sequentially individually dispensed therefrom.

Abstract: The improved pill container has an external shape simulating a fountain pen and includes the usual clip for securing the container within a pocket of a user. Construction-wise, the container includes a center section and two end sections. Each of the end sections is hollow and adapted to contain pills or medication of a certain type, and each end section has an open end which fits telescopically over a portion of the center section so that the end section is rotatably mounted. Cooperating projection and recess means are provided to yieldably retain each end section to the center section and to provide for step-by-step rotation of the end section. Indicating means are provided to visually indicate the rotated position of each end section. The center section blocks flow of pills from one end section to the other.