Article dispensing – With recorder – register – indicator – signal or exhibitor – Audible
Patent
1975-07-25
1976-07-13
Tollberg, Stanley H.
Article dispensing
With recorder, register, indicator, signal or exhibitor
Audible
221 15, 221289, G04C 2318
Patent
active
039689000
ABSTRACT:
An electrically operated device capable of holding first and second hollow plastic balls that contain predetermined numbers of tablets or capsules of first and second medicants, and dispensing the balls at timed intervals to a patient. Each ball is defined by interlocking half portions that may be separated to permit the medicant contained in the ball to be removed therefrom. The balls have the medicants placed therein by a pharmacist. The physician supplies the patient with an opaque disk that has at least one ring of circumferentially spaced apertures formed therein. The present invention is illustrated and described as having two rings of apertures in the disk. A clock drive on the device slowly rotates the disk. As the first and second apertures pass first and second beams of light, first and second light sensitive diodes are rendered electrically conductive to energize first and second solenoid operated dispensers that allow first and second balls to roll onto a spring loaded pivotally supported dispenser tray from which the balls may be taken by the patient. The first and second balls may be dispensed either concurrently or at different time intervals. The dispensed balls, as they pivot the hinged tray to a supporting position, completes an electric circuit to an electrically operated alarm to audibly notify the patient to remove the balls from the tray. The audible alarm will continue to operate until the dispensed ball or balls are removed from the tray. After a ball has been dispensed onto the dispenser tray and until the ball is removed therefrom, the clock drive is de-energized, and as a result a patient cannot take the medicant oftener than the time intervals dictated by the spaced apertures formed in the disk.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3395829 (1968-08-01), Cogdell et al.
patent: 3651984 (1972-03-01), Redenback
patent: 3815780 (1974-06-01), Bauer
Babcock William C.
Scherbel David A.
Tollberg Stanley H.
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