Abstract: This package has a main panel with a plurality of sockets formed by displacing material of the panel in a direction to form sockets with closed ends within the package and the sockets opening through the bottom of the package. A thin and easily tearable film is adhered to the bottom of the package in position to close the lower ends of the sockets so that products do not fall out. The sockets can be collapsed by finger pressure against the upper ends of the sockets, and a pill pushed from a collapsed socket tears the film as it is pushed out. The package is made child-proof by adhering a strong film over the bottom of the thin film, and this strong tough film can be peeled off when a pill is to be removed from the package by an adult. A cover hinges over one end of the main panel and covers the closed ends of the sockets.

Abstract: A tablet dispensing device comprises a substantially flat support having a single tablet dispensing aperture therein. A tray is adapted to rotate on one surface of the support and has a plurality of openings therein disposed in a circular orientation. The openings are arranged to individually align in registration with the aperture upon rotation of the tray. The tray is adapted to receive a tablet dispensing package containing a plurality of tablets. A tablet is dispensed by pressing it from the package through its corresponding opening in the tray and then through the aperture in the support for collection by the operator thereof. Rotation of the tray sequentially places each opening over the aperture in alignment therewith so that the remaining tablets can be individually dispensed.

Abstract: A dispensing package for containing a plurality of individual dosages of pills, capsules, tablets and the like that can be selectively removed one dose at a time. A cover portion for the package is made up of an outer layer of paperboard or the like with an inner layer of rupturable metal foil or the like bonded to one surface. Disc-shaped punch-out lids are cut into the paperboard layer and are held in position by the foil. A container portion is bonded to the foil and includes a sheet of flexible plastic material formed with a plurality of pockets or blisters. One of the lids overlies each of the pockets and a single dose of pills or the like is contained in each of the pockets. The paperboard layer has high strength and stiffness relative to the foil. Consequently, by collapsing one of the pockets against the cover portion, the portion of the foil attached to the associated lid ruptures and separates from the cover portion with the lid so that the pill is pressed through the opening uncovered by the lid.

Abstract: A refillable tablet package is provided through the use of a paperboard folder to which are attached removable plastic sheets containing tablets in blister receptacles.

Abstract: Containers for storing various pills are provided which have excellent water vapor permeation resistance and which includes child-resistant opening features. The container includes a top and a bottom which are adapted for telescopic positioning with respect to each other in a generally flush-like manner so that edge exposures are kept to a minimum and the top and bottom each include means which are brought into inter-engagement to define a sealed internal chamber for storing tablets, such as aspirin. Wall portions of the top and bottom are configured to preclude opening of the container except by exertion of a compressive force at selective locations. Such selective application of compressive force between the top and the bottom allows the top to be removed from the bottom in a generally pivotal lever-like manner about a hinge connection by the engagement of a fulcrum surface on the bottom with the internal surface of a portion of the top.

Abstract: Each sheet-form layer of plastic film to be superposed with another layer between layers of non-heat conducting material, such as paperboard, is perforated in a pattern such that, when the layers of plastic are superposed between the layers of normally non-heat conducting material for heat sealing, the perforations of each layer of plastic are aligned with imperforated portions of the superposed perforated layer of plastic. When sealing heat and pressure are applied to the superposed layers of plastic and paperboard or the like by conventional heated dies, each layer of plastic is rapidly sealed to the inner surface of both layers of paperboard, or, if initially sealed to the inner surface of one layer, is rapidly sealed directly to the inner surface of the other layer of paperboard.

Abstract: There is disclosed an integrally formed tablet dispensing container for receiving a tablet package having a plurality of individually enwrapped tablets and comprised of a top or cover member and a bottom or body member. The body member is formed with a plurality of orifices juxtaposed to said tablets. The top member is provided with a plurality of hinged dispensing members which after the dispensing of a tablet from the tablet package assumes a tablet dispensed position.

Abstract: A dispenser for oral medication which promotes patient compliance with prescribed treatment and dosage regimens. A housing has an opening formed therein through which may be viewed a plurality of individually defined compartments or wells within each of which are placed tablets or capsules corresponding to desired individual dosages. The plurality of compartments are arranged in a regular, preferably matrix, form so as to define a plurality of columns and rows of compartments which may respectively correspond to and be labeled with the particular day and time of day at which the individual dosages are desired to be dispensed. Means are provided for preventing manual accessability to all but a single day's worth of dosages. Each day's dosages may be successively selected by means of a child-proof advancing mechanism. The individual dosages within each day's dosages may be selected by the patient via a plurality of individual manually pivotable preferably transparent lids.

Abstract: A cigarette case having a closure member movable to selective positions for exposing or releasing a single or individual cigarette. The closure member and body of the case have detents indicating the position of the closure member to expose the desired cigarette, or be at a desired position, for exposing or releasing the next cigarette. The case includes means forming cells for the individual cigarettes.