Receptacle for the portioned dispensing of the contents thereof

A receptacle for the portioned dispensing of contents including for example tablets, pills or the like, comprising

• a receptacle defining a storage space and a cover end and formed with an exit opening at the cover end, the receptacle having formed therein two channels operatively communicating with said exit opening,
• walls completely surrounding and defining one of said channels, the latter being substantially complementary in cross-section to the size of the tablets and having a length equal to at least two tablets, said one channel communicating with and extending from said storage space in the receptacle and extending cross-wise to the exit opening,
• the other of said two channels extending cross-wise relative to said one channel communicating therewith and extending in a longitudinal direction of said exit opening directly communicating with the latter, and
• a deadweight division slider means for being disposed freely slidable in said other channel exclusively by gravity upon moving said receptacle into a tipping dispensing position with the exit opening pointing downwardly and into a neutral position with the exit opening pointing upwardly, respectively, blocking and unblocking communication between said channels, respectively,
• said walls defining said one channel constituting means for forming and maintaining a direct tandem supply of tablets therein during the tipping dispensing position and as well as during the neutral position of the receptacle, respectively.