American Cyanamid Company

Wheaton Holding, Inc.

Ralph DeVito

Louis S Hoffman

Bart J Zoltan

James M Howard

Charles B Sanders

Clark Bow

A holding device for medication containers of essentially any size or shape provides the patient with the last time the medicine was taken and includes a housing with a cylindrical cup shape opening with a micro switch member extending through an access opening into the cavity form one side of the opening. Individual positioning devices in the form of vertical open cylindrical tubes are sized to fit particular containers with the cylinders positioned proximate the switch member with an opening to allow the switch member to extend into the cylindrical bore opening. A bushing and interlocking tab index the position of each cylindrical tube in the correct position each time the positioning device is inserted into the base section of holding device. The sensor signal that a container is placed in the base is used to provide through numerical display the time the last medication was taken, the elapsed time since that dose and the number of times the medication was accessed in one day. A settable alarm is provided to alert the patient as to the next time to take the medicine.

Medication container holding device indicating usage time

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for continuous delivery of a liquid from individual liquid holding containers to a common discharge outlet. A bulk package is adapted to removably store a plurality of sealed liquid containers in predetermined positions within the package. The top surface of the package defines a plurality of openings for exposing the tops of the individual containers stored within the package. A removable lid includes a plurality of sharp discharge outlets or hollow spikes corresponding in number and disposed in alignment with the openings defined on the top surface of the package. The sharp discharge outlets extend from the lower surface of the lid, and are employed to puncture the openings in the individual containers stored within the package. The lid itself defines a hollow chamber providing a reservoir for receiving the flow of liquid from the individual containers. A harness support is provided to encase the outer periphery of the package and includes a clamp for driving the top lid into the upper surface of the package for puncturing the sealed openings of the individual containers stored within the package. The package can be supported by the harness in an inverted position to result in simultaneous flow of liquid from the individual containers into the hollow reservoir defined in the lid.

Method and apparatus for simultaneous and continuous delivery of liquids

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Stanhope, NJ, United States of America

Ralph DeVito