Medication dispensing system and method of using same
OwnerMohinder SINGH, Michael WOJCIK +2inventors
InventorsMohinder SINGH, Michael WOJCIK, Kevin MELDRUM, Kelly SANBORN
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Abstract
A medication dispensing system and method of using same is presented. The medication dispensing system includes a base, a cap and pills. The base has plurality of concave niches for housing the pills. The cap is rotatably attached to the base in which the cap has a dispensing orifice for dispensing the pills. The medication dispensing system may also have a packaging unit containing a pill box composed of the base, cap and pills. The method of using the medication dispensing system includes the steps of obtaining, opening, inserting, removing, retrieving, turning, and rotating.
Claims19
A medication dispensing system comprising:
- a base comprising a plurality of concave niches;
- a cap rotatably attached to the base, the cap comprising a dispensing orifice traversing through the cap;
- and
- a plurality of pills housed within concave niches.
A method of using a medication dispensing system comprising the steps of:
- obtaining the medication dispensing system comprising:
- a base comprising a plurality of concave niches;
- a cap rotatably attached to the base, the cap comprising a dispensing orifice traversing through the cap;
- a plurality of pills housed within concave niches;
- a selection disk coupled between the base and the cap wherein the base, selection disk, and cap comprising a pill box;
- and
- a packaging unit containing the pill box, the packaging unit comprising a backing and front envelope;
- opening up the packaging unit separating the front envelope away from the backing to open;
- retrieving the pill box from the opened up packaging unit;
- turning the selection disk to select a pill housed within a concave niche of the base;
- rotating the cap to orient the dispensing orifice over the selected pill;
- removing the selected pill out of the pill box;
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- inserting the removed pill into a mouth of a user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.