Tablet storage case with dispensing control unit

Claim 1

A COMBINATION TABLET CONTAINER AND DISPENSING CONTROL UNIT CONSISTING OF THREE COOPERATIVE PARTS, NAMELY, A CASE, A PLATFORM AND A DRUM, WHEREIN THE CASE HAS ONE END OPEN, THERE BEING IN THE CASE TWO LONGITUDINAL GUIDES, ONE ON EACH OF THE TWO LONGITUDINAL SIDE WALLS, SAID GUIDES LOCATED AT THE JUNCTIONS OF THE SIDE WALLS AND THE BOTTOM ADJOINING WALL, AND ALSO HAVING A PORTION OF THE TOP SURFACE ALONG THE OPEN END CUT AWAY TO EXPOSE ONE EDGE OF THE DRUM TO FACILITATE ROTATING, AND WHEREIN THE SAID PLATFORM HAS A FRONT WALL, BACK WALL AND A FLOOR, THE SAID FRONT WALL HAVING AN OPENING OF SUFFICIENT SIZE TO PERMIT A GIVEN TABLET TO PASS THRU, AND THE SAID BACK WALL BEING SHORTENED TO PERMIT A GIVEN TABLET TO PASS IT BY AT ONE END, THERE BEING A CIRCULAR TRACK IN THE FLOOR BETWEEN THE BACK WALL AND THE OPENING IN THE FRONT WALL FOR ACCOMMODATING THE ABOVE MENTIONED DRUM, AND WITHIN SAID CIRCULAR TRACK RISING VERTICALLY FROM THE FLOOR OF THE PLATFORM THERE ARE ONE OR MORE WALL SEGMENTS OR POSTS TO ACT IN COOPERATION WITH THE DRUM WHEN IT ROTATES TO FORCE THE EJECTION OF ANY TABLET CONTAINED WITHIN THE SAID DRUM, THERE ALSO BEING A FIXED PAWL FASTENED TO ONE VERTICAL EDGE OF THE BACK WALL OF THE PLATFORM BY MEANS OF A U-SHAPED TURN, SAID PAWL SO PLACED AS TO CONTACT THE TEETH ON THE OUTER SURFACE OF THE DRUM AS IT IS ROTATED TO PREVENT REVERSAL OF THE DRUM MOTION, THERE ALSO BEING A GUIDE WALL RISING FROM THE PLATFORM FLOOR OUTSIDE OF THE TRACK AREA AND LOCATED BEHIND THE FRONT FACING WALL OF THE PLATFORM, SAID GUIDE WALL STARTING AT THE OUTSIDE EDGE OF SAID FRONT WALL AND PROCEEDING AT AN ANGLE THERETO UNTIL ALMOST REACHING THE AFOREMENTIONED TRACK, AND WHEREIN THERE IS A COOPERATING DRUM WHICH IS CLOSED AT THE TOP AND OPEN AT THE BOTTOM, SAID DRUM HAVING A PORTION OF ITS SIDE WALL REMOVED TO RECEIVE A TABLET, THE REMAINDER OF SAID WALL EXCEPT FOR ONE SMALL PORTION HAVING A SERIES OF VERTICALLY DISPOSED TEETH THEREON FOR ENGAGING THE AFOREMENTIONED PAWL OF THE PLATFORM, THE EXCEPTED SMALL PORTION OF SAID WALL BEING SMOOTH AND WITHOUT TEETH, SAID SMOOTH PORTION SO LOCATED AS TO CONTACT THE AFOREMENTIONED PAWL WHEN THE OPENING IN THE SIDE WALL OF THE DRUM FACES OUTWARD FROM THE CASE, AND WHERE THE LOWER RIM OF THE SAID DRUM RESTS WITHIN THE CIRCULAR TRACK ON THE FLOOR OF THE PLATFORM TO SECURE SAID DRUM IN ITS PROPER ROTATING POSITION, SAID DRUM ALSO HAVING A CURVED WALL DEPENDING FROM ITS TOP SURFACE DELINEATING THE SIZE OF THE AREA FOR RECEIVING THE TABLETS TO BE DISPENSED, SAID DEPENDING WALL HAVING VERTICAL OPENINGS THEREIN TO PERMIT THE DRUM TO TURN WITHOUT STRIKING THE AFOREMENTIONED POSTS OR WALL SEGMENTS RISING FROM THE FLOOR OF THE COOPERATING PLATFORM, THERE ALSO BEING WITHIN THE SAID DRUM A CONCENTRIC WALL DEPENDING FROM THE TOP OF THE DRUM AND SO PLACED AS TO PASS BETWEEN THE AFOREMENTIONED POSTS OR WALL SEGMENTS OF THE PLATFORM, BUT WHICH DOES NOT EXTEND THRU THE OPEN AREA FOR RECEIVING THE TABLET FOR DISPENSING, THE TOP OF SAID DRUM FITTING FLUSH AGAINST THE UNDER SURFACE OF THE TOP OF THE COOPERATING CASE, THUS SECURING THE DRUM IN THE PLATFORM TRACK WHEN THE SAID PLATFORM WITH THE DRUM RESTING IN THE TRACK OF THE PLATFORM IS INSERTED INTO THE OPENING IN THE CASE.