Dispensing device for solid-form pharmaceutical preparations

Claim 1

A DISPENSING CONTAINER FOR A SOURCE OF PHARMACEUTICAL TABLETS COMPRISISNG, IN COMBINATION, (A) A BASE HAVING A RAISED OUTER PORTION AND HAVING A CENTRAL CIRCULAR RECESS AND A PLURALITY OF APERTURES THEREIN, SUCH APERTURES BEING ARRANGED, RADIALLY AND CONCENTRICALLY, IN GROUPS; (B) CHRONOLOGIC INDICIA OF SEQUENCE AND PERIODICITY ON THE RAISED OUTER PORTION OF THE BASE RESPECTIVELY PROXIMATE AND REFERABLE TO EACH GROUP OF APERTURES IN RADIAL ARRANGEMENT; (C) A CENTRAL RETAINING MEMBER COMPRISING POST AND OVERHANG PORTIONS IN THE CIRCULAR RECESS AND INTEGRALLY FORMED WITH THE BASE; (D) A DISC, OF FRANGIBLE MATERIAL, HAVING A CENTRAL HOLE THEREIN, ADAPTED TO BE RECEIVED ABOUT THE POST PORTION OF THE CENTRAL RETAINING MEMBER AND SELECTIVELY EMPLACED IN THE CIRCULAR RECESS WITH RESPECT THE CHRONOLOGIC INDICIA AND TO BE RETAINED ON THE BASE BY THE OVERHANG PORTION OF THE CENTRAL RETAINING MEMBER; (E) A PLURALITY OF ERECT DEFORMABLE BLISTERS ON ONE FACE OF THE THIN DISC, THE BLISTERS BEING IN RADIAL AND CONCENTRIC ARRANGEMENT TO CORRESPOND WITH THE ARRANGEMENT OF APERTURES IN THE BASE, SUCH BLISTERS AND THE THEREBY DEFINED PORTIONS OF THE THIN DISC PROVIDING A PLURALITY OF CHAMBERS; (F) PEG MEANS ON THE BASE TO FIX THE THIN DISC IN THE SELECTED POSITION WITH RESPECT TO THE CHRONOLOGIC INDICIA AND THE CHAMBERS OF THE THIN DISC IN REGISTRATION WITH THE APERTURE IN THE BASE; (G) A PHARMACEUTICAL TABLET WITHIN AT LEAST ONE OF THE CHAMBERS WHEREFROM SUCH TABLET, VIA THE APERTURE WITH WITH SUCH CHAMBER IS IN REGISTRATION, MAY BE EXPRESSED BY APPLYING TO THE BLISTER PORTION OF SUCH CHAMBER EXTERNAL FORCE SUFFICIENT TO RUPTURE PORTION OF THE THIN DISC DEFINED BY SUCH BLISTER PORTION; AND (H) AN IMPRINTED KEY ON THE THIN DISC INDICATING THE FIRST TABLET TO BE DISPENSED.