Pill Dispenser

摘要

A pill dispenser for use with a pill container. The present invention describes a dispensing apparatus for a pill container comprising a housing, a rotatable closure to which a pill container may be mounted in an inverted orientation, a hopper for collecting pills emptied from the pill container into the housing, and a rotatable spool that is adapted to receive pills from the hopper. The spool comprises one or more slots that are sized to receive pills of various sizes and shapes. A metering sleeve rotatably disposed around the spool selectively covers all but one of the slots of the spool. Users can select the setting of the metering sleeve corresponding to the size and shape of the pill that they are seeking to dispense, ensuring that a single pill is received in the corresponding slot of the spool.

主权项

1) A dispenser, comprising:
a housing comprising an upper surface, a rotatable closure attached to the upper surface, a hopper disposed below the upper surface, a rotatable spool disposed below the hopper, and a base; the upper surface comprising one or more apertures; the rotatable closure comprising one or more apertures; wherein the rotatable closure is adapted to transition between a closed position in which the one or more apertures of the upper surface are not aligned with the one or more apertures of the rotatable closure and an open position in which the one or more apertures of the upper surface are aligned with the one or more apertures of the rotatable closure; wherein the rotatable closure is adapted to hold a container in an inverted orientation; the hopper comprising an aperture; the rotatable spool comprising one or more slots that are able to align the aperture of the hopper via rotation of the rotatable spool.