Abstract A preferred embodiment of a series of tablet dispensers is disclosed having a base containing seven columns of tablet locations and a cylindrical member rotatably mounted in the base and containing on its surface seven series of indicia of time. Each series is axially disposed and includes an indicia for each day of the week arranged sequentially with respect to time. The indicia of each series are spaced so that each indicia is registerable with a column of tablet locations. The seven series of such indicia are arranged circumferentially of the cylindrical member and each series begins with an indicia representing a different day of the week. In using the dispenser, the cylindrical member is rotated until the day on which the first tablet is to be taken registers with the first column of tablet locations. When the indicia representing the appropriate day is registered with the first column of tablet locations, the indicia representing subsequent days register with the other columns of tablet locations.
A tablet dispenser comprising a base containing an essentially parallel series of columns of tablet locations, the number of columns being equal to the number of meDicament doses to be taken in a given conventional calendar cycle of time, one and only one indicia of time being visibly associated with each of the columns of tablet locations, each indicia representing a point of time within the cycle of time at which medication is to be taken and together constituting a series of indicia in which the indicia are arranged sequentially with respect to time, said series of indicia being located on a movable member, plurality of said series of indicia equal in number to at least the number of medicament doses to be taken in said cycle of time being disposed on the surface of said movable member adjacently in its direction of movement, at least one series of indicia beginning with the indicia representing each point in time at which medicament is to be taken, said movable member being a flexible strip slidable mounted in the base adjacent the top of the columns of tablet locations, indicia representing each dosage time in the cycle of time being printed sequentially with respect to time on a visible surface of said strip at equidistantly spaced locations, the number of such indicia being equal to at lease one less than two times the number of columns of tablet locations.
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A tablet dispenser comprising a base containing an essentially parallel series of columns of tablet locations, the number of columns being equal to the number of meDicament doses to be taken in a given conventional calendar cycle of time, one and only one indicia of time being visibly associated with each of the columns of tablet locations, each indicia representing a point of time within the cycle of time at which medication is to be taken and together constituting a series of indicia in which the indicia are arranged sequentially with respect to time, said series of indicia being located on a movable member, plurality of said series of indicia equal in number to at least the number of medicament doses to be taken in said cycle of time being disposed on the surface of said movable member adjacently in its direction of movement, at least one series of indicia beginning with the indicia representing each point in time at which medicament is to be taken, said movable member being a flexible strip slidable mounted in the base adjacent the top of the columns of tablet locations, indicia representing each dosage time in the cycle of time being printed sequentially with respect to time on a visible surface of said strip at equidistantly spaced locations, the number of such indicia being equal to at lease one less than two times the number of columns of tablet locations.