US3204834A - Box for dispensing pastilles and the like - Google Patents

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US3204834A
US3204834A US321081A US32108163A US3204834A US 3204834 A US3204834 A US 3204834A US 321081 A US321081 A US 321081A US 32108163 A US32108163 A US 32108163A US 3204834 A US3204834 A US 3204834A
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Pierre Maurice Rene Leon Gadenne
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D83/04—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills
    • B65D83/0409—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills the dispensing means being adapted for delivering one article, or a single dose, upon each actuation
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2583/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D2583/04—For dispensing annular, disc-shaped or spherical or like small articles or tablets
    • B65D2583/0472—For dispensing annular, disc-shaped or spherical or like small articles or tablets characterised by the dispensing action
    • B65D2583/0477—For dispensing annular, disc-shaped or spherical or like small articles or tablets characterised by the dispensing action the container is maintained in the same position during the dispensing of several successive articles or doses
    • B65D2583/049—One rotational action of a cylindrical, disc-like or sphere-like element around its own axis, e.g. step-by-step, reciprocating
    • B65D2583/0495—One rotational action of a cylindrical, disc-like or sphere-like element around its own axis, e.g. step-by-step, reciprocating the element being alveolate

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  • Boxes of this type are known in which is rotatively mounted a Wheel provided with pastille receiving notches which, when the wheel is rotated, come successively in alignment with an opening formed in the lateral wall of the box so as to permit distribution of the pastilles.
  • a knurling is provided on the periphery of the wheel on which the user exerts a pressure with his finger for rotating the Wheel.
  • the object of the present invention is to remedy these drawbacks.
  • the invention provides a dispensing box of the aforementioned type wherein the pastille-dispensing wheel is rigid in rotation with a control knob mounted outside the box Ion one of theA large sides of the latter,
  • the size of the opening in the lateral wall of the box being thus restricted to the width of one notch.
  • This arrangement precludes the danger of the soiling of the contents of the box by the fingers of the user and materially reduces the soiling due to the contact of the contents with the atmosphere.
  • This arrangement also greatly facilitates the operation.
  • the periphery of the dispensing wheel does not possess a knurling, the whole of the periphery can be utilized for forming the notches. The latter are consequently in a much greater number, for example eight notches. In this way one can be practically sure of extracting a pastille upon each operation of the wheel.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective View of one embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is an exploded view of this embodiment.
  • the box according to the invention comprises a bottom 1, which is in one piece with the lateral wall 2 of the box, and a detachable lid 3.
  • Bottom 1, lateral wall 2 and lid 3 define a rst cavity for storing the pastilles and the like, and a second cavity for a dispensing mechanism described hereinafter.
  • the lid is provided on its inner face with lugs 4 or pins which are engaged in apertures 5 formed in the upper face of the wall 2.
  • the bottom 1 and the lid 3 are advantageously composed of plastic material, the lid being preferably transparent so as to permit inspection of the contents of the box.
  • the box has a generally trapezoidal shape so as to be easy to take hold of between the middle finger and the index linger, the latter serving to operate the dispensing mechanism which will now be described.
  • This mechanism comprises a Wheel 6 located in the aforementioned second cavity and provided on a periphery with evenly-spaced notches 7 which have such size that' a single one of the pastilles P placed in the box can tit therein, these notches are eight in number in the presently-described embodiment.
  • the wheel 6 has at its centre a rectangular aperture S adapted to receive the corresponding portion of a pin or spindle 9 which is provided at the centre of a control knob or wheel 10 and extends through an opening 11 in the bottom 1.
  • the box is assembled in the following manner.
  • the knurled control knob 10 is placed on the outer face of the bottom 1 so that its pin 9 extends through the opening 11 and through the slot 8 in the wheel 6.
  • the free end of the pin 9 is then burred over so as to maintain the parts assembled.
  • the wheel 6 occupies the con-- vergent end of the bottom 1, the lateral wall 2 being curved in the form of an arc of a circle at 12 on its inner face in front of this Wheel so as to correspond to the shape of this wheel on a large part of its periphery with provision of a slight clearance.
  • the outer face of the lateral face 2 is moreover concave at 14 along the convergent end of the bottom 1 and on the opposite side of'the opening 13, so that the control knob 10 can protrude from the box in this concavity.
  • the side of the control knob 10 facing the bottom 1 ⁇ is provided with a boss 15 in the shape of a ramp which is connected to this face by a slightly sloping face on one side and by an abrupt face on the other.
  • the outer face of the wall of the bottom 1 is provided with recesses 16 whose shapes correspond to that of the boss 15 and which are evenly spaced apart on a circumference which is centered on the aperture 11 and has a radius equal to the distance between the boss 15 and the pin 9. The number of these recesses equals the number of notclles '7 and one of them faces the opening 13.
  • the abrupt rear end of the boss 15 and the corresponding abrupt ends of the recesses 16 preclude rotation of the knob 10 in the opposite direction.
  • the box is used in the following manner:
  • the pastilles P are first placed in the box 15 after having removed the lid 3.
  • the user can extract a pastille from the box at will. He takes hold ofthe box in the right hand between the middle finger and index finger, the latter bearing against the control knob 10. He inclines the box in such manner that the opening 13 is downwardly directed and places his left hand under this opening. In this position the pastilles are sure to enter the notches '7 of the wheel 6 located in front of the upwardly divergent ends of the bottom 1. In rotating the control knob 10 by means of the index finger so that the rst of these lled notches cornes into alignment with the lopening 13, a pastille falls into the left hand of the user.
  • a pocket dispenser for pastilles and the like cornprising a box having a bottom wall, a top wall, and a peripheral lateral wall defining the perimeter of said box between said top and bottom walls, said three walls defini ing a first cavity therein for storing pastilles and the like,
  • a dispensing wheel having its major portion rotatably mounted in said second cavity in close relation to said walls; the outer face of said bottom wall having a circular recess therein adjacent an edge thereof, a control knob for said dispensing wheel seated in said recess, the outer surface of said knob being ush with the outer surface of the box and a portion of said knob projecting laterally outwardly of said lateral wall; a pivot pin rotatably mounted in said bottom wall, said pin being fixed to and interconnecting said wheel and knob, said wheel having spaced notches in the periphery thereof, each notch being of such size as to receive a single pastille from said first cavity, said lateral wall having a discharge opening therein communicating with said second cavity for the discharge of said pastilles upon rotation of said knob.
  • a pocket dispenser according to claim 1 in which said lateral wall is indented adjacent said recess in said bottom wall, and said knob projects into said indentation.
  • a pocket dispenser according to claim 1 in which cooperating detent means are positioned between said bottom and said knob to provide for step by step rotation of said knob, a detent being provided to correspond to each notch in said Wheel.
  • detent means are positioned between said bottom member and said knob member, said means comprising a series of recesses formed on the face of one of said members, and a corresponding boss member, engageable with said recesses, formed on the adjacent face of said other member, said recesses providing ramps having an abrupt shoulder, whereby when the knob is rotated in one direction said boss member will ride over said ramps, and when said boss member'engages said shoulder, said shoulder will prevent rotation in a reverse direction.

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US3330442A (en) * 1965-08-18 1967-07-11 Morton Int Inc Tablet dispenser with rotary, axial inlet-outlet trap chamber
US3871551A (en) * 1971-10-15 1975-03-18 Louis Bender Pill dispenser with pill actuated time indicator
US4207993A (en) * 1978-03-23 1980-06-17 Ellis Doyce F Sr Cricket dispenser
US4512500A (en) * 1982-12-09 1985-04-23 Belbin Sr Chesley E Tablet storage and dispensing device
USD392481S (en) 1996-06-18 1998-03-24 David J. Coury Tablet dispenser
US6112942A (en) * 1997-02-28 2000-09-05 Merck & Co., Inc. Tablet dispensing cap
USD729016S1 (en) 2012-10-01 2015-05-12 Joy Farrah Haidar-Daoud Dispenser
USD729015S1 (en) 2012-10-01 2015-05-12 Joy Farrah Haidar-Daoud Dispenser

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AU7262387A (en) * 1986-05-12 1987-11-19 Chesebrough-Pond's Inc. Dispenser with rotary dispensing wheel
DE102013212910B4 (de) * 2013-07-02 2019-03-21 Balda Medical Gmbh & Co. Kg Vorrichtung und Verfahren zum vereinzelnden Dosieren von Festkörperportionen

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US1869120A (en) * 1928-07-30 1932-07-26 Z Ro Specialties Company Dispensing device
US1891817A (en) * 1930-07-19 1932-12-20 Axel G Hildebrand Ejector package
US1994745A (en) * 1932-02-04 1935-03-19 Vernon L Baker Vending machine
CA464357A (fr) * 1950-04-11 W. Olson Harry Distributeur de cafe
US2518520A (en) * 1947-06-20 1950-08-15 Archibald C Broun Measuring dispenser having a cylindrical chamber and a rotary measuring element mounted therein
US2627973A (en) * 1949-07-23 1953-02-10 William V Sines Marble carrier
US3048132A (en) * 1959-10-12 1962-08-07 John F Morgan Seed pellet dispenser and planter

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BE519941A (fr) *
CA464357A (fr) * 1950-04-11 W. Olson Harry Distributeur de cafe
US1869120A (en) * 1928-07-30 1932-07-26 Z Ro Specialties Company Dispensing device
US1891817A (en) * 1930-07-19 1932-12-20 Axel G Hildebrand Ejector package
US1994745A (en) * 1932-02-04 1935-03-19 Vernon L Baker Vending machine
US2518520A (en) * 1947-06-20 1950-08-15 Archibald C Broun Measuring dispenser having a cylindrical chamber and a rotary measuring element mounted therein
US2627973A (en) * 1949-07-23 1953-02-10 William V Sines Marble carrier
US3048132A (en) * 1959-10-12 1962-08-07 John F Morgan Seed pellet dispenser and planter

Cited By (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3330442A (en) * 1965-08-18 1967-07-11 Morton Int Inc Tablet dispenser with rotary, axial inlet-outlet trap chamber
US3871551A (en) * 1971-10-15 1975-03-18 Louis Bender Pill dispenser with pill actuated time indicator
US4207993A (en) * 1978-03-23 1980-06-17 Ellis Doyce F Sr Cricket dispenser
US4512500A (en) * 1982-12-09 1985-04-23 Belbin Sr Chesley E Tablet storage and dispensing device
USD392481S (en) 1996-06-18 1998-03-24 David J. Coury Tablet dispenser
US6112942A (en) * 1997-02-28 2000-09-05 Merck & Co., Inc. Tablet dispensing cap
USD729016S1 (en) 2012-10-01 2015-05-12 Joy Farrah Haidar-Daoud Dispenser
USD729015S1 (en) 2012-10-01 2015-05-12 Joy Farrah Haidar-Daoud Dispenser

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DE1486274A1 (de) 1969-07-31
SE219981C1 (sv) 1968-04-09
FR1349274A (fr) 1964-01-17

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