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US 10,307,339 B2Granted
Multi-compartment medicine storage and dispensing container
OwnerKimberlee Ann Horninventor
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Abstract
A storage and dispensing container comprises a housing including a bottom end and a peripheral wall upstanding on the bottom end and having an opening, the bottom end and the peripheral wall defining, in a combination with each other, a generally open top end and a hollow interior of the housing; one or more compartments defined within the hollow interior and having a bottom wall thereof spaced apart from an interior surface of the bottom end; a tray member movable between a retracted position and an extended position; and a writing implement holder being sized and shaped to receive a writing implement therewithin.
Claims21
A storage and dispensing container, comprising:
- a housing including a bottom end and a peripheral wall upstanding on said bottom end, said peripheral wall having a wall portion with an opening, said bottom end and said peripheral wall defining, in a combination with each other, a generally open top end and a hollow interior of said housing;
- a plurality of compartments defined within said hollow interior and being separated from each other with a partition;
- lids;
- a hinged connection between an edge of each lid from said lids and an edge portion of each compartment from said plurality of compartments so that said each lid is configured to selectively cover and uncover an open end of said each compartment;
- a write-on erasable surface on an exterior surface of one or more lids from said lids;
- a space between a bottom wall of said one or more compartments and an interior surface of said bottom end;
- a tray member movable, within said space and through said opening, between a retracted position where said tray member is disposed within said space and an extended position, where said tray member extends outwardly from said peripheral wall;
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- a writing implement holder being sized and shaped to receive a writing implement therewithin.
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A medicine storage and dispensing container, comprising:
- a housing including a bottom end and a peripheral wall upstanding on said bottom end and having an opening, said bottom end and said peripheral wall defining, in a combination with each other, a generally open top end and a hollow interior of said housing;
- one or more compartments defined within said hollow interior;
- a space between a bottom wall of said one or more compartments and an interior surface of said bottom end;
- a tray member having a first portion thereof positionable within said space between said bottom wall of said one or more compartments and said interior surface of said bottom end, said tray member further having a second portion thereof upstanding on a front edge of said first portion, wherein said tray member is movable between a retracted position where said first portion is disposed within said space and said second portion covers said opening and an extended position where said first and second portions extends outwardly from said peripheral wall;
- a writing implement holder comprising tabs provided on an interior surfaces of said first and second portions of said tray member and defining an open compartment sized and shaped to receive a writing implement therewithin;
- a write-on surface provided on an interior surface of said first portion;
- a pair of first notches formed through a thickness of said first portion in an open communication with a rear edge thereof, a pair of first tabs extending outwardly from side edges of said first portion adjacent said rear edge thereof, a pair of second notches formed through said thickness of said first portion adjacent said front edge thereof, a pair of second tabs extending outwardly from said side edges of said first portion adjacent said front edge thereof, a pair of third tabs provided on inner surfaces of said peripheral wall in an operative alignment with said pairs of first and second tabs so that said pairs of first and second tabs move, upon application of a manual force, inwardly to allow at least a partial insertion or a partial removal of said first portion from said space;
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- at least one lid configured to selectively open and close at least one compartment.
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A storage and dispensing container, comprising:
- a housing including a bottom end and a peripheral wall upstanding on said bottom end, said peripheral wall having an opening, said bottom end and said peripheral wall defining, in a combination with each other, a generally open top end and a hollow interior of said housing;
- one or more compartments defined within said hollow interior and being separated from each other with a side wall;
- a space between a bottom wall of said one or more compartments and an interior surface of said bottom end;
- a tray member movable, within said space and through said opening, between a retracted position where said tray member is disposed within said space and an extended position, where said tray member extends outwardly from said peripheral wall, said tray member comprises:
- a first portion positionable within said space between said bottom wall of said one or more compartments and said interior surface of said bottom end,
- a second portion thereof upstanding on a front edge of said first portion, said second portion covers said opening in said peripheral wall when said first portion is disposed in said retracted position,
- a pair of first notches formed through a thickness of said first portion in an open communication with a rear edge thereof,
- a pair of first tabs extending outwardly from side edges of said first portion adjacent said rear edge thereof,
- a pair of second notches formed through said thickness of said first portion adjacent said front edge thereof, and
- a pair of second tabs extending outwardly from said side edges of said first portion adjacent said front edge thereof;
- a pair of third tabs provided on inner surfaces of said peripheral wall in an operative alignment with said pairs of first and second tabs so that said pairs of first and second tabs move, upon application of a manual force, inwardly to allow at least a partial insertion of said first portion into said space or a partial removal of said first portion from said space;
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- a writing implement holder being sized and shaped to receive a writing implement therewithin.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.