Article dispensing – With discharge assistant – Plural or combined with manipulating means
Patent
1993-02-03
1993-11-09
Skaggs, H. Grant
Article dispensing
With discharge assistant
Plural or combined with manipulating means
221264, 221276, 221154, 222349, 222361, B65D 8300
Patent
active
052595315
ABSTRACT:
A hollow vertical cylinder has a closed vertical side wall and closed upper and lower ends. The cylinder has an upper region for receiving pills and a lower region from which pills are dispensed. A portion of the upper region is removable. The lower region has a first opening in its lower end which is adapted to pass a pill therethrough and has at least one second opening in its side wall. A thin horizontal partition disposed in the cylinder defines a bottom horizontal surface for the upper region and a top horizontal surface for the lower region and also separates each of the regions from the other. The partition has a third opening adapted to pass a pill therethrough, the third opening being out of alignment with the first opening. A structure disposed in the lower region adjacent the partition has a lever extending outwardly through a second opening in the side wall. The lever, in the absence of any inwardly directed pressure exerted thereon, automatically assumes a first position of maximum extension, and, when inwardly directed pressure is applied thereto, assumes a second position of lesser extension. The structure also has a pill accepting section which is connected to the lever. The section is adapted to receive, transport and discharge a pill. The section, when the lever is in its first position, is placed under the third opening in order to receive any pill delivered through the third opening thereto. The section, when the lever is in its second position, is placed above the first opening in order to deliver any pill previously received by the section to the first opening for discharge therethrough.
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Proshan Marybeth
Skaggs H. Grant
Stewart Russel O.
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