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US 2014/0110424 A1Published application
Spiral pill dispenser for medicine bottles and containers
OwnerSun Y. Kiminventor
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Abstract
A pill dispenser that aids in the dispensing of pills from a medicine bottle or container having a top opening and an inside wall in which a raised spiral coil is included on the inside wall of the container where the coil terminates next to the top opening, the raised spiral coil forming a substantially spiral ridge and a substantially spiral trough into which pills are guided when tipping the bottle or container to discharge one or more pills.
Claims10
A pill dispenser for discharging pills comprising:
- a pill container having an open top that is adapted to be covered by a cap, the container having a substantially cylindrical inside portion below the open top, and
- a raised spiral coil within the pill container on the cylindrical inside portion that terminates near the open top, wherein the raised spiral coil forms a substantially spiral ridge with a substantially spiral trough between turns of the spiral ridge, the ridge and trough being sized to urge pills contained in the pill container into the trough when tipping the container for controlled dispensing of individual pills wherein the spacing between turns of the spiral ridge approximates the width of pills contained in the pill container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.