Medicine dispensing system

Claim 1

In combination: a portable cart having side and end walls, at least one compartment formed therein, each compartment having at least two parallel upright support members, extending vertically therein, and having parallel horizontal upper edges spaced a predetermined width apart, and a plurality of compartmentalized medicine-holding packages, each package comprising a generally T-shaped body having a lower, medicine-carrying portion of flexible, low-cost, non self-supporting materials having bubbles therealong, for containing a pill, separated by the tear lines, for permitting each successive lowermost bubble to be separated therefrom, said sheet being of less width than the width between said supports to hang therebetween and an upper index card portion of relatively rigid, self-supporting, material of predetermined greater width than the width of said lower portion and than the width between said supports; said card having a pair of oppositely disposed, downward facing bottom edges each forming a bearing surface extending beyond the said horizontal edges of said supports and supported thereon and having a pair of integral downward projecting ears, each outside one of the bearing surfaces of said bottom edges; said bearing surfaces supporting said card portion in visible, upright, readable position; supporting said lower portion in limp, depending position between said supports and supporting said packages for individual free removal from said cart in a vertical path and said ears preventing inadvertent twisting and dropping of said packages to the bottom of said cart.