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US 4,785,932 AGranted
Medicine dispenser
OwnerAmedeo Checkeinventor
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Abstract
A medicine dispenser comprises a plurality of elongate open receptacles. Beneath the receptacles is an open-ended compartment having resilient bias means therein for holding prescriptions and the like. Axially aligned with each receptacle is a simulated clock face and a spinner rotatably mounted in each clock face. A finger on each spinner, when rotated, points to an hour when medicine in a respective receptacle should be taken.
Claims4
A container for medicine comprising a plurality of receptacles, each one having an arcuate longitudinal cross-sectional shape and a semi-circular transverse cross-sectional shape;
- a simulated clock face with numerals thereon mounted adjacent each said receptacle;
- a spinner with finger pivotally mounted and axially aligned longitudinally with each receptacle;
- a cover over said receptacles that is hinged;
- an open-ended compartment having a bottom aligned longitudinally substantially across and disposed beneath said receptacles;
- and resilient means mounted in said open-ended compartment contacting said bottom of said open-ended compartment
- wherein said resilient means comprises a leaf type spring adapted to frictionally engage a document inserted into said open-ended compartment and entrap the document between said spring and said bottom of said open-ended compartment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.