# US 2013/0152515 A1 · Tablet storage system and use thereof > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2013/0152515 A1 - Document ID: US20130152515A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 13/328,905 - Filed: 2011-12-16 - Published: 2013-06-20 - Earliest claimed: 2011-12-16 - Inventors: Norma M. Valdez; David Beach - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20130152515A1 ## CPC - B67D 7/02: for transferring liquids other than fuel or lubricants - B67D: DISPENSING, DELIVERING OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (cleaning pipes or tubes or systems of pipes or tubes B08B9/02; emptying or filling of bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels, or similar containers, not otherwise provided for B67C; water supply E03; pipe systems F17D; domestic hot-water supply systems F24D; measuring volume, volume flow, mass flow or liquid level, metering by volume G01F; coin-freed or like apparatus G07F) ## Abstract A storage device and system for storing whole, divisible tablets and the divided portions of those divisible tablets. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A storage device for storing and dispensing a portion of a divided pharmaceutical tablet derived from a whole, divisible pharmaceutical tablet, said device comprising a receptacle comprising a floor and a bounding wall forming an open, tablet-portion holding area, wherein said receptacle is insertable and retainable within a neck of a pharmaceutical tablet storage bottle. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1, wherein said receptacle comprises at least one divider wall forming divided compartments within the tablet-portion holding area of the receptacle. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1 wherein said receptacle further comprises a center spindle for a user to grasp the receptacle and remove the receptacle from, and replace the receptacle within, the neck of the bottle. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The device of claim 3 wherein said divider wall comprises a sharpened edge as a tablet-splitter. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1 wherein said receptacle comprises a retaining member formed as an outer lip of the bounding wall, said retaining member corresponding to a receiving means on an inner wall of the bottle neck. ### Claim 6 (depends on 2) The device of claim 2 wherein the dividing wall comprises two intersecting walls forming four equivalent compartments. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The device of claim 1 further comprising a center spindle formed at the intersection of the intersecting divider walls. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) A method for retaining and storing pharmaceutical tablet portions divided from a whole or a previously divided pharmaceutical tablet, said method comprising providing a divided pharmaceutical tablet receptacle of claim 1; and storing a divided pharmaceutical tablet portion within the receptacle. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8 wherein the method comprises the further steps of removing the receptacle from the neck of a pharmaceutical storage bottle to access and remove a whole tablet from the main storage area of the storage bottle, and replacing the receptacle containing a remaining divided pharmaceutical tablet portion within the neck of the bottle. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8 wherein the method further comprises the step of dividing the tablet using a tablet-splitter formed on the upper edge of a divider wall provided in the receptacle. ### Claim 11 A system for storing a pharmaceutical tablet portion divided from a divisible pharmaceutical tablet, said system comprising a storage bottle forming a storage compartment for receiving and storing a whole, divisible pharmaceutical tablet, said bottle including a neck integral therewith, a separate and separable receptacle comprising a floor and a bounding wall forming an open, tablet-portion holding area, wherein said receptacle is insertable and retainable within a neck of a pharmaceutical tablet storage bottle, and a closure means capable of closing the storage bottle and receptacle, together. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein said receptacle comprises at least one divider wall forming divided compartments within the tablet-portion holding area of the receptacle. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11 wherein said receptacle further comprises a center spindle for a user to grasp the receptacle and remove the receptacle from, and replace the receptacle within, the neck of the bottle. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The system of claim 13 wherein said divider wall comprises a sharpened edge as a tablet-splitter. ### Claim 15 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11 wherein said receptacle comprises a retaining member formed as an outer lip of the bounding wall, said retaining member corresponding to a receiving means on an inner wall of the bottle neck. ### Claim 16 (depends on 12) The system of claim 12 wherein the dividing wall comprises two intersecting walls forming four equivalent compartments. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The system of claim 16 comprising a center spindle formed at the intersection of the intersecting divider walls. ### Claim 18 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11 wherein the device further comprises a supply of divisible compressed tablets having an inactive breaking region formed in the tablet. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The system of claim 18 wherein the tablets are taller-than-wide and have the inactive breaking region formed between two active compositions. ### Claim 20 (depends on 18) The system of claim 18 wherein the tablets are compressed bilayer tablets having a top inactive layer and a bottom active layer wherein the bottom active layer is scored at least 70% therethrough.