Automatic periodic drug dispensing system
OwnerTorsten S. Carlsoninventor
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Abstract
An automatic periodic pharmaceutical preparation dispenser, for alerting patients under medication when specific drugs are to be taken. The device provides orderly storage of a plurality of drugs to be taken in a given time period with a coding associated with each pill. The device further provides a timer having a signal device responsive thereto to indicate when a specific medicament is to be taken and at a predetermined time interval relative to previously administered drugs. In the several embodiments shown, the timer comprises a clock mechanism; a time chip totalizer; and a signal responsive paging device all of which are arranged to indicate when and which pharmaceutical preparation is to be taken.
Claims13
An automatic periodic drug dispensing device for use in administering predetermined doses of pharmaceutical preparations to an individual comprising:
- a plurality of drug storage chambers each adapted to receive a prescribed medicament and being arranged in a predetermined sequence and with a given capacity for dispensing the medicaments over a given time period,
- a timing means being discernible by a user of the prescribed medicaments,
- an automatic signal means associated with said timing means and arranged to identify specific times when each of said prescribed medicaments is to be taken, and
- a coding means associated with each of said plurality of drug storage chambers and said timing means, whereby said prescribed medicaments may be identified for dispensing in a predetermined time sequence,
- said dispensing device comprising a self-contained unit and said timing means includes an electrical circuit having means to energize said automatic signal means at preselected times to emit discernible alarm signals,
- wherein said electrical circuit includes a holding circuit and a reset means whereby said holding circuit is adapted to maintain the signal means in an energized state until deactivated by the reset means, and wherein said reset means deactivates said signal means coincidentally with the dispensing of an appropriate medicament.
An automatic periodic drug dispensing device for use in administering predetermined doses of pharmaceutical preparations to an individual comprising:
- a plurality of drug storage chambers each adapted to receive a prescribed medicament and being arranged in a predetermined sequence and with a given capacity for dispensing the medicaments over a given time period,
- a timing means being discernible by a user of the prescribed medicaments,
- an automatic signal means associated with said timing means and arranged to identify specific times when each of said prescribed medicaments is to be taken, and
- a coding means associated with each of said plurality of drug storage chambers and said timing means, whereby said prescribed medicaments may be identified for dispensing in a predetermined time sequence,
- said dispensing device comprising a portable, self-contained unit and said timing means includes an electrical circuit having means to energize said automatic signal means at preselected times to emit discernible alarm signals,
- wherein said means to energize said automatic signal means comprises a plurality of crystal detectors, each adapted to detect an individual, predetermined signal transmission and responsive thereto to activate said automatic signal means.
An automatic periodic self-contained drug dispensing device for use in administering predetermined doses of pharmaceutical preparations in a given order and at a given time comprising:
- a plurality of drug storage chambers, each adapted to receive a prescribed drug, which drugs are to be administered over a given time period;
- a timing means including an automatic signal means and an energizing means adapted to activate said means at preselected times to emit discernible alarm signals which are arranged to identify specific times and specific order of administering said prescribed drugs, said energizing means includes a holding circuit and a reset means whereby said holding circuit is adapted to hold the signal means in an energized condition until deactivated by the reset means, and wherein said reset means deactivates said signal means coincidental with dispensing of an appropriate pharmaceutical preparation from an appropriate one of said plurality of drug storage chambers.
An automatic periodic self-contained drug dispensing device for use in administering predetermined doses of pharmaceutical preparations in a given order and at a given time comprising:
- a plurality of drug storage chambers, each adapted to receive a prescribed drug, which drugs are to be administered over a given time period;
- a timing means including an automatic signal means and an energizing means adapted to activate said signal means at preselected times to emit discernible alarm signals which are arranged to identify specific times and specific order of administering said prescribed drugs, said energizng means includes a holding circuit and a reset means whereby said holding circuit is adapted to hold the signal means in an energized condition until deactivated by the reset means,
- said energizing means further includes a plurality of crystal detectors, each adapted to detect an individual, predetermined signal transmission and responsive thereto to activate said automatic signal means.
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