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US 6,860,403 B1Granted
Single pill dispenser
OwnerDoug Mehrens, David Smithinventors
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Abstract
A pill dispenser for a bottle (and corresponding method of dispensing a pill) comprising a cap with an interior chamber and a hole through a top of the cap and communicating with the interior chamber, which cap is rotatable when engaged with a corresponding bottle, and a pill stop oriented to dispense a single pill from the interior chamber through the hole when the bottle is oriented with cap downward and the cap rotated so that the hole and the pill stop correspond in position.
Claims18
A pill dispenser for a bottle, said pill dispenser comprising:
- a cap with an interior chamber and a hole through a top of the cap and communicating with said interior chamber, which cap is rotatable when engaged with a corresponding bottle;
- a dispensing ring with one or more holes communicating with said interior chamber of said cap;
- and
- a pill stop oriented to dispense a single pill from said interior chamber through said hole when the bottle is oriented with cap downward and said cap rotated so that said hole and said pill stop correspond in position.
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A method of dispensing a pill from a bottle, the method comprising the steps of:
- employing a cap with an interior chamber and a hole through a top of the cap and communicating with the interior chamber, which cap is rotatable when engaged with a corresponding bottle;
- employing a dispensing ring with one or more holes communicating with the interior chamber of the cap:
- orienting the bottle with cap downward;
- and
- rotating the cap to cause a pill stop to dispense a single pill from the interior chamber through the hole.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.