Foolproof dispenser of medical pills

Claim 1

In foolproof dispenser of medicinal pills, the combination of a cap and a base, said cap being rotatable, said base being stationary, said cap and base being on an end of a container of pills, and means whereby said pills are individually dispensed by subsequent steps in relative positions of said cap and base, said base including an eccentrically located first opening vertically through said base, said first opening communicating with a concentric circular channel upon the upper side of said base, a raised central portion on said base surrounded by said circular channel, a radially extending channel crossing said circular channel and extending from a center of said base to an outwardly blind end thereof which is short of the periphery of said base, a second vertical opening through said base being located at a junction of said circular and radial channels; said cap having on its underside a concentric downward circular baffle that slidably fits around said raised central portion of said base, a concentric central opening vertically through said cap, an eccentrically located upward depression on the underside of said cap for selective alignment with said eccentric first opening of said base, and said circular baffle of said cap having a radial opening therethrough communicating with a radial short channel that fits slidably free in said circular channel of said base.