Article dispensing – With lock – latch – or seal for container and/or support
Patent
1975-06-27
1976-11-16
Reeves, Robert B.
Article dispensing
With lock, latch, or seal for container and/or support
215218, 151 9, 221265, 222153, 222370, A47F 104
Patent
active
039919080
ABSTRACT:
There is disclosed a pill dispensing cap assembly device adapted for mounting on the neck of a pill container. The cap assembly device is designed to provide for the effective and efficient dispensing of pills which are randomly stored in a container, upon rotation of one element of the cap assembly, through a rather limited arc. The cap assembly includes a cap member secured to the neck of the container and having a discharge passage in communication with the interior of the container; fixed with respect to the cap member is a cover element having one or more dispensing openings therein, which are offset relative to the cap member discharge opening. Mounted between the cap member and the cover element is a rotor member adapted for rotation relative to the cap member and cover element and having a pill receiving aperture therein. As such, when the pill receiving aperture of said rotor is aligned with the discharge opening of the cap member the bottom of said aperture will be closed by surface of said cover element. As such, a pill can be picked up by the rotor member and transferred to a point wherein it is in alignment with a dispensing opening formed in the cover member whereupon said pill can drop from the cap assembly. The surfaces of the rotor member adjacent the rotor aperture or apertures are sloped in such a manner that these surfaces will serve to cam any excess pills back into the discharge opening, upon movement of the rotor element during the dispensing operation.
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Ryder Francis E.
Thomas Michael D.
Reeves Robert B.
Ryder International Corporation
Skaggs H. Grant
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