Homecare pillbox
OwnerFrank Halbichinventor
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Abstract
An improved homecare pillbox containing a plurality of compartments for pills or the like arranged, indexed and differentiated in units for use over a selected period of time such as a week, and for providing proper medication in accurate doses to patients, whether supervised or unsupervised; readily releasable means for securing together any number of such units for holding several types of medication to be taken at different times during the day; and cover means for easy opening and access and for storing and protecting medication.
Claims8
A pillbox means including a box having the plurality of separate compartments for receiving pills and cover means therefor for individually closing respective pill compartments, said pillbox having a rear wall and a front wall taller than the rear wall, connecting means for connecting a plurality of said pillboxes together in front to back relationship wherein the cover means of the boxes so connected are disposed in non-coplanar relationship so as to present a stepped appearance affording access to each of the pillboxes from the front and means for opening the covers on their respective pill compartments.
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