Dial pill box

An oral, solid dosage form, pharmaceutical dispenser comprising:

• a flat, circular container with a transparent walled base having a plurality of arcuate storage compartments arranged within main radial sector storage compartments formed by radial walls and a peripheral wall with a stepped exterior surface, all of the arcuate circular segment storage compartments being formed by sub-dividing the radial walls by annular walls, a lower circular lid and an upper circular lid superposed over the lower lid, each lid having a central hole, the lower lid having a peripheral skirt and a single radial sector storage compartment access opening corresponding in shape and dimension to each main radial sector storage compartment, the upper lid having a plurality of radially and circumferentially spaced arcuate circular segment compartment-access openings corresponding in shape to each respective arcuate circular segment compartment;
• a resilient bifurcated pivot pin detachably passable through the central hole of both lids and accessible to finger manipulation from outside the lids and the container for rotatably and resiliently clamping the lids onto the container and for removal of the lids from the container to recharge the container with dosages;
• lower interlocking means comprising a single fixed ramped tooth projecting upwardly from the stepped exterior surface of the peripheral wall of the container and fixed with respect thereto for interlocking successively with seven complementary shaped means comprising ratchet indentations on the lower edge of the peripheral skirt of, and fixed with respect to, the lower lid and rotating only when the said lower lid is rotated, upper interlocking means comprising a single fixed ramped tooth projecting upwardly from the upper surface of, and fixed with respect to the lower lid adjacent the perimeter thereof, interlocking with complementary shaped means on the lower surface and fixed with respect to the upper lid and comprising six equidistantly spaced indentations of complementary shape to the single ramped tooth on the lower lid and rotating with the upper lid and at a circumferential distance equal to one seventh radial segment arc, all of said ramp and notch interlocking means being aligned in the directions of rotation of the lids and co-operating when the lids are rotated by hand for controlling the rotational direction of the lids with respect to each other and the base, and providing dosage interval click stops whereby all compartments may be covered and radial sector storage compartments and arcuate segment storage compartments selectively and successively uncovered and dosage dispensed from the compartments through lid openings, said lower interlocking means allowing said lower lid to be rotated in one direction only with respect to said container and said upper interlocking means allowing said upper lid and said lower lid to be rotated together in said one direction and said upper lid to be rotated by itself only, in the opposite direction to close all compartments or selectively open compartments whereby rotation of both said lids in said one direction enables said radial sector compartment access opening of said lower lid to be located above and aligned with one selected radial sector storage compartment of said container and rotation of said upper lid in said other direction enables one of said arcuate access openings to be located above and aligned with one of said correspondingly shaped arcuate storage compartments of said container.

An oral, solid dosage form, pharmaceutical dispenser comprising:

• a flat, circular container with a transparent walled base having a plurality of arcuate storage compartments arranged within main radial sector storage compartments formed by radial walls and a peripheral wall with a stepped exterior surface, all of the arcuate circular segment, storage compartments being formed by subdividing the radial walls by annular walls;
• a lower circular lid and an upper circular lid superposed over the lower lid, each lid having a central hole, the lower lid having a peripheral skirt and a single radial sector storage compartment access opening corresponding in shape, area and dimension to each main radial sector storage compartment, the upper lid having four openings therein, each opening corresponding in area, shape and dimension to a respective arcuate segment compartment which it overlies and being spaced radially successively in a series of immediately adjacent openings, each at a distance equal to the radial width of each adjoining arcuate sector compartment and spaced angularly, successively at a distance corresponding to the angular length of the said respective sector compartment which said opening overlies each said arcuate segment compartment being sequentially uncovered by four successively angular movements of the said upper lid in the same angular direction, a resilient bifurcated pivot pin detachably passable through the central hole of both lids and accessible to finger manipulation from outside the lids and the container for rotatably and resiliently clamping the lids onto the container and for removal of the lids from the container to recharge the container with dosages;
• lower interlocking means comprising a single fixed ramped tooth projecting upwardly from the stepped exterior surface of the peripheral wall of the container and fixed with respect thereto for interlocking successively with seven complementary shaped means comprising ratchet indentations on the lower edge of the peripheral skirt of, and fixed with respect to the lower lid and rotating only when the said lower lid is rotated, upper interlocking means comprising a single fixed ramped tooth projecting upwardly from the upper surface of, and fixed with respect to, the lower lid adjacent the perimeter thereof interlocking with complementary shaped means of the lower surface, and fixed with respect to the upper lid and comprising six equidistantly spaced indentations of complementary shape to the single ramped tooth on the lower lid and rotating with the upper lid and at a circumferential distance equal to one seventh radial segment arc, all of said ramp and notch interlocking means being aligned in the direction of rotation of the lids and co-operating when the lids are rotated by hand for controlling the rotational direction of the lids with respect to each other and the base and providing dosage interval click stops whereby all compartments may be covered and radial sector storage compartments and arcuate segment storage compartments selectively and successively uncovered and dosage dispensed from the compartments through lid openings, said lower interlocking means allowing said lower lid to be rotated in one direction only with respect to said container and said upper interlocking means allowing said upper lid and said lower lid to be rotated together in said one direction and said upper lid to be rotated by itself only in the opposite direction to close all compartments or selectively open compartments whereby rotation of both said lids in said one direction enables said radial sector compartment access opening of said lower lid to be located above and aligned with one selected radial sector storage compartment of said container and rotation of said upper lid in said other direction enables one of said arcuate access openings to be located above and aligned with one of said correspondingly shaped arcuate storage compartments of said container.