Special receptacle or package – For ampule – capsule – pellet – or granule – Compartmented
Patent
1994-05-13
1995-01-24
Fidei, David T.
Special receptacle or package
For ampule, capsule, pellet, or granule
Compartmented
206536, 206538, 206528, 222562, B65D 8304
Patent
active
053835590
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
There exist different plastic containers with push-on or threaded caps for medicinal tablets, sold in pharmacies, and for vitamin and mineral tablets, sold in health-food stores. In order to take a tablet or tablets out of one of these existing containers, the cap has to be removed and afterwards replaced, which is both cumbersome and unhygienic, exposing all of the tablets in that container to humidity and the possibility of bacterial contamination from outside.
The object of this invention is to provide a packaging container for tablets that will directionally orient the tablets inside the container, so that they can be conveniently dispensed, one at a time, through an aperture in the base or in the lid of the container, without having to remove the lid from the container and without having to expose all of the tablets in the container to the outside. Using this container is both more convenient and more hygienic.
SUMMARY OF INVENTION
The invention consists in a dispensing container for medicinal or food supplement tablets or other similarly shaped articles, the container having a hollow body closed at one end, the container being shaped internally at the other end to define an annular circumferential or part circumferential channel, the cross-sectional shape of which is such as to permit a number of said articles within the container to enter the channel in a preferred orientation, an aperture in the channel such as to permit said articles to leave the channel one at a time, a receptacle externally of said aperture to receive an article that has passed through the aperture to hold said article temporarily and permit its manual removal, as well as to make said article block the way for any other such articles from passing through said aperture until such time that said article has been removed, external means movable in relation to said body whereby said aperture may be opened or closed.
It is preferred that said external means shall consist in a cover at said one end rotatable in relation to said body to open or close said aperture, a pin projecting from said cover or said body through a slot in the other whereby the extent of movement of said cover is limited, said slot, when manufactured, including a portion closed by a thin frangible membrane that is destroyed by movement in relation to said pin on first movement of the cover to provide evidence of tampering with the sealed container.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Without restricting the full scope of this invention, three preferred forms of this invention are illustrated in the following drawings:
FIG. 1 is a vertical section of the container through the dispensing aperture and turning stop. It also shows the outline of a stacked second container.
FIG. 2 is a view of the dispensing cover of the container in its open aperture position.
FIG. 3 is the side view A--A of the container with a vertical section through its dispensing aperture.
FIG. 4 is the view B--B of the dispensing cover with a horizontal section through its dispensing aperture.
FIG. 5 is the side view C--C of the dispensing covers nested on top of each other and a vertical section through an alternative design of turning stop with tamper-evident membrane.
FIG. 6 is a view of the dispensing cover in its closed aperture position and the tamper-evident turning stop.
FIG. 7 is a vertical section through the tamper-evident turning stop in the closed aperture position with the tamper-evident membrane intact.
FIG. 8 is a view of the permanently closed cap of the container.
FIG. 9 is a vertical section of a second preferred form of the invention, through the dispensing aperture and tamper-evident turning stop.
FIG. 10 is a view of the dispensing cover of the second preferred form of this invention in its open aperture position.
FIG. 11 is a view and section of the tamper-evident turning stop in the closed position.
FIG. 12 is the section D--D through the lid, container rim and key.
FIG. 13 is a vertical section of a third preferred form of the invention, throu
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Fidei David T.
Toren Consulting Pty Limited
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