US20020166869A1 - Sugar-coated pill dispenser - Google Patents

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US20020166869A1
US20020166869A1 US10/140,534 US14053402A US2002166869A1 US 20020166869 A1 US20020166869 A1 US 20020166869A1 US 14053402 A US14053402 A US 14053402A US 2002166869 A1 US2002166869 A1 US 2002166869A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D83/04—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills
    • B65D83/0409—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills the dispensing means being adapted for delivering one article, or a single dose, upon each actuation
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2583/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D2583/04—For dispensing annular, disc-shaped or spherical or like small articles or tablets
    • B65D2583/0472—For dispensing annular, disc-shaped or spherical or like small articles or tablets characterised by the dispensing action
    • B65D2583/0477—For dispensing annular, disc-shaped or spherical or like small articles or tablets characterised by the dispensing action the container is maintained in the same position during the dispensing of several successive articles or doses
    • B65D2583/0481—One reciprocating action, e.g. to or from

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  • This invention refers to a sugar-coated pill dispenser intended, as can be inferred from the title, to facilitate the preservation and controlled taking of sugar-coated pills, tablets and similar.
  • This device can be made in a size suitable for carrying in a bag or pocket and can be used anywhere.
  • sugar-coated pill dispensers are known. These consist of containers on the mouth of which a permanent cap with a hole is provided. This in turn has another gyrating cap with another hole of the same diameter as the first one, so that when both holes coincide on suitably turning the second cap the sugar-coated pills come out easily, whilst if both holes do not coincide the sugar-coated pills are prevented from coming out. Both caps usually have an upper cap that closed the container and is easily removable by screwing or similar.
  • the new dispenser stands our for two basic reasons: it is adapted to contain and deliver pills of different shapes and sizes and to expel the pills individually with each movement of the articulated cap it has.
  • the first aspect permits the use of the dispenser for many types of products to be taken, both medicinal and sweets or similar.
  • the second aspect is that the device is suitable to be used by elderly persons or those with difficulties to take the medicine in the form of pills or similar in the exact dose.
  • FIG. 1 shows, in a vertical plane section, the upper part of the new dispenser in the moment of delivering a pill.
  • FIG. 2 shows, also in a vertical plane section, the complete dispenser with its cap in the closed position.
  • FIG. 3 shows the body of the dispenser box without its cap
  • FIG. 4 is a floor view of the body itself.
  • FIGS. 5 and 6 represent the tilting lid of the dispenser according to its lower face and on the side.
  • the described dispenser basically include the body of the container - 1 - and the functional articulated cap - 2 -.
  • the box - 1 - has, in a preferred but not obligatory version, a prismatic shape with an oval-triangular base (according to FIG. 4) and its inside has a space - 3 - that serves as a container for the sugar-coated pills to be delivered throughout the time the device is to be used, and another grooved space - 4 -, for example a U-section suitable for the shape and size of the pills to be delivered.
  • the functional cap - 2 - is a plate with the same floor shape as the box section - 1 - and its lower face, opposite said box, has the following elements: a slanted zone - 5 - at its widest semi-circular end, the angular cavity zone - 6 -, the U-shaped projecting zone - 7 -, the elastic tongue - 8 -, the central tongue - 9 -, the transversal tongue - 10 -, the stubs - 11 - and the U-shaped projecting zone - 12 - coinciding with the slanting zone - 5 -.
  • the cap - 2 - is operatively adapted to the box - 1 - in the following way:
  • the tongue - 10 - is inserted through its lateral edges into the vertical notches - 13 - made in the internal walls and opposite the box - 1 -, acting as an elastic laminar spring when the cap is tilted according to figure - 1 -.
  • the stubs - 11 - are housed in two cavities existing in said internal walls, thus permitting tilting of the cap.
  • the tongue - 9 - cooperates with the tongue - 8 - for guiding and briefly retaining the pills, according to said FIG. 1.
  • the U-shaped projection - 7 - is adapted to and closed the upper part of the space - 4 - in the same way.
  • the U-shaped projection - 12 - is adapted to and closed the upper and semi-circular part of the space - 3 - in a U-shaped section.
  • the slanted step - 18 - on the internal wall of the box helps to position the pill - 16 -, blocked by the deformation of the tongue - 8 - pushed by the projection whilst the upper pill - 15 - is expelled.
  • the box - 1 - and cap - 2 - of the described dispenser will be advantageously made of plastic material, the first preferably stiff and the second semi-stiff, using injection systems or a suitable technical process.

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ES200101172U ES1049184Y (es) 2001-05-09 2001-05-09 Dosificador de grageas

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EP1790589A1 (en) 2005-11-26 2007-05-30 Rustydog Inc. System and method to dispense single capsular bodies
US20070170185A1 (en) * 2004-03-19 2007-07-26 Peter Hanssen Container for pills and a method of forming such a container
US20080290110A1 (en) * 2005-12-16 2008-11-27 Gelardi John A Child Resistant Dispenser
US20120103985A1 (en) * 2010-10-28 2012-05-03 Joshua Dwork Single unit dispensing cap
WO2017097599A1 (de) * 2015-12-08 2017-06-15 Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa Spender
US20170333283A1 (en) * 2015-02-26 2017-11-23 Suhjun Park Dispensing device, valve, containing apparatus having same, contents moving apparatus and contents apparatus
USD900606S1 (en) 2018-03-02 2020-11-03 Berlin Packaging, Llc Closure
US11033460B2 (en) 2016-02-01 2021-06-15 Kyungdo Park Passage device, valve, reception device including same, content movement device, and content device
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US5071033A (en) * 1990-07-26 1991-12-10 Practical Products, Co. Tablet dispenser
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US20070170185A1 (en) * 2004-03-19 2007-07-26 Peter Hanssen Container for pills and a method of forming such a container
EP1790589A1 (en) 2005-11-26 2007-05-30 Rustydog Inc. System and method to dispense single capsular bodies
US20080290110A1 (en) * 2005-12-16 2008-11-27 Gelardi John A Child Resistant Dispenser
US20120103985A1 (en) * 2010-10-28 2012-05-03 Joshua Dwork Single unit dispensing cap
US8657155B2 (en) * 2010-10-28 2014-02-25 Joshua Dwork Single unit dispensing cap
US20170333283A1 (en) * 2015-02-26 2017-11-23 Suhjun Park Dispensing device, valve, containing apparatus having same, contents moving apparatus and contents apparatus
US11020316B2 (en) * 2015-02-26 2021-06-01 Kyungdo Park Dispensing device, valve, containing apparatus having same, contents moving apparatus and contents apparatus
WO2017097599A1 (de) * 2015-12-08 2017-06-15 Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa Spender
US11033460B2 (en) 2016-02-01 2021-06-15 Kyungdo Park Passage device, valve, reception device including same, content movement device, and content device
USD900606S1 (en) 2018-03-02 2020-11-03 Berlin Packaging, Llc Closure
USD931101S1 (en) 2018-03-02 2021-09-21 Berlin Packaging, Llc Closure

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