Single dose pill dispensing system
OwnerNoel Clark, Preston Beckinventors
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Abstract
A single pill dispensing system for a bottle/vial of the type for dispensing a medication pill, where the bottle/vial has a circular body and receives a circular cap. To facilitate the dispensing of a single pill, an insert, slidably received in the circular body and circular cap is provided. The insert includes a body portion containing a circuitous channel of a size to accommodate a single pill as the user inverts or turns over the container body to capture and subsequently transfer the pill through the insert to a nesting recess in the lower surface of the circular cap.
Claims5
An insert for a bottle/vial for dispensing pills of medication, where the bottle/vial comprises an elongated, circular container body with an open end and a circular cap for threading engagement with said container body over said open end, said insert, adapted for dispensing a single said pill, comprising:
- a circular body sized for sliding receipt in said circular container body and said circular cap, said circular body having a closed top surface and a bottom surface, where the bottom surface includes a nesting recess offset from the center thereof for receiving said single said pill, and a remote end featuring a partial arcuate opening in communication with and offset from said nesting recess via a circuitous channel to facilitate the dispensing of a said single pill, where said circuitous channel comprise an S-configured wall and is sized to accomodate a single said pill.
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