Child-resistant pill dispenser

Claim 1

A dispenser container for tablets comprising, in combination, a container having a circular open end and a closed end, a guide plug freely rotatable in said open end and closing said open end except for a port extending through said plug and sized to permit passage therethrough of one tablet at a time, a dome on said plug extended into the interior of said container, a helical ramp on said dome leading to the port in the plug, a rotor rotatably mounted in juxtaposition to said plug and including a chamber adapted to receive a tablet, means including a thumbpiece for rotating said rotor from a first position with respect to the plug where said chamber and said port are sufficiently in register to permit passage of a tablet therebetween to a second position with respect to the plug where said chamber and port are out of register sufficiently to prevent passage of a tablet therebetween, a cap rotatably mounted to the container and covering both the plug and the rotor except for slot means in the cap through which the rotor rotating thumbpiece is extended and is free to allow movement of the rotor to the first and second positions, means preventing relative rotation between the cap and the plug, a port through said cap adapted to come into register with the chamber in the rotor only when the rotor is moved to the second position and sufficiently in register to allow passage of a tablet therebetween, and a torsion bar spring extended between the rotor and the plug and non-rotatably mounted in each of them with thE spring biasing the rotor so that it returns to the said first position but allows easy rotor movement to the second position.