Pendant container for tablets and capsules

A gas-tight container generally in the form of a spheroid adapted to be worn as a locket on a person's body, and for use in the storage of a medication, comprising:

• a first hollow shell member having an eyelet for the reception of a neck chain providing substantially one-half of said spheroid, and having an axially extending ring-shaped portion;
• a second hollow shell member of an external shape generally similar to that of said first shell member and comprising the other half of said spheroid, said second shell member having an axially extending ring-shaped portion;
• said ring-shaped portion of one of said first and second shell members being a telescopic fit within said ring-shaped portion of the other of said shell members;
• sealing and securing means associated with juxtaposed axially extending faces of said respective axially extending riing-shaped portions, and which provides a sealing and securing gas-tight interference fit between said axially extending faces to locate said first and second shell members against displacement relative to each other in a manner permitting ready intentional displacement of said shell members relative to each other to permit removal of one of said shell members;
• said sealing and securing means including a continuous radial projection associated with one of said axially extending ring-shaped portions which is receivable in an annular groove in the other of said axially extending ring-shaped portions, said other ring-shaped portion having a rounded shoulder at the entrance thereto for guiding said ring-shaped portions into interlocking engagement.