Pill dispensing system
AssigneeHB Clouds LLC
InventorsJoseph B. Bujalski, James Klino, Jeffery Heitzenrater, Christopher Sean Wronski
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Abstract
A pill dispenser comprising a container operatively arranged to hold at least one pill, a cap/timer assembly rotatably secured to the container, the cap/timer assembly arranged to be set to a time interval for dispensing the at least one pill, means for alerting a user when the timer has been set to the time interval, and a dispenser housed within the container and the cap, the dispenser operatively arranged to dispense only one pill at the beginning of the time interval, and to prevent dispensing until the time interval has elapsed. The dispenser also includes an audible alert to indicate that a pill has been dispensed.
Claims21
A pill dispenser, comprising:
- a container operatively arranged to hold at least one pill, said container including a sleeve having a sidewall tapering from a first opening to a second opening;
- a cap/timer assembly rotatably secured to said container, said cap/timer assembly arranged to be set to a time interval for dispensing said at least one pill;
- means for alerting a user when said timer has been set to said time interval;
- and,
- a dispenser housed within said container and said cap, said dispenser operatively arranged to dispense only one pill at the beginning of said time interval, and to prevent dispensing until said time interval has elapsed.
A pill dispenser, comprising:
- a container operatively arranged to hold at least one pill, said container including a sleeve having a sidewall tapering from a first opening to a second opening;
- a cap/timer assembly rotatably secured to said container, said cap/timer assembly arranged to be set to a time interval for dispensing said at least one pill;
- a dispenser housed within said container and said cap, said dispenser operatively arranged to dispense only one pill at the beginning of said time interval, and to prevent dispensing until said time interval has elapsed;
- and,
- means for alerting a user when said time interval has elapsed.
A method for dispensing a pill from a pill bottle, comprising the steps of:
- (a) twisting a cap of said pill bottle containing a timer in a first direction such that said cap and said timer are rotated a predetermined amount relative to a container of said pill bottle;
- (b) releasing a pill from a hopper within the container of said pill bottle into a bottom of said container;
- (c) activating an indicator;
- (d) accessing said pill from an opening in said bottom of said container of said pill bottle;
- (e) waiting a predetermined amount of time until said cap of said pill bottle returns in a second direction to its original position so that another pill is received from a sleeve within said container into said hopper to be released, said sleeve having a sidewall tapering from a first opening to a second opening and activating said indicator again;
- and,
- (f) repeating steps (a) through (e) as needed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.