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A receptacle for pills or other medication to be taken at prescribed intervals of time, for example, every three hours, includes a container with a rim at the top extending around an opening, a lid engageable with the rim for closing such opening and being turnable in respect to the container so tha

A receptacle for pills or other medication to be taken at prescribed intervals of time, for example, every three hours, includes a container with a rim at the top extending around an opening, a lid engageable with the rim for closing such opening and being turnable in respect to the container so that an index on the lid will cooperate with an adjacent scale of hour designations on an exterior surface of the container for selectively indicating various times, and a locking arrangement permitting removal of the lid from the container only when the lid is turned to a selected one of a plurality of angularly spaced apart positions at which the index and scale indicate respective times having the prescribed intervals therebetween.

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A receptacle for medication to be taken at prescribed intervals of time, comprising a container member having an opening at the top thereof with a generally circular rim extending around said opening and defining an annular shoulder facing axially away from said opening, a lid member engageable with

A receptacle for medication to be taken at prescribed intervals of time, comprising a container member having an opening at the top thereof with a generally circular rim extending around said opening and defining an annular shoulder facing axially away from said opening, a lid member engageable with said rim for closing said opening and being rotatable in respect to said rim when engaged with the latter, said container member having a scale of hour designations angularly spaced apart thereabout adjacent said lid member, said lid member having index means thereon cooperating with said scale for selectively indicating various times in response to turning of said lid member relative to said rim of the container member, said lid member having an annular flange which nests axially with respect to said rim when the lid member closes said opening, a keeper extending radially from said flange for engaging under said shoulder and thereby retaining said lid member in engagement with said rim, said keeper being angularly aligned with said index means on the lid member, and said rim having a plurality of uniformly angularly spaced recesses therein interrupting said shoulder to permit the passage of said keeper and being angularly aligned with selected ones of said hour designations of the scale which represent said prescribed intervals of time so that said lid member is removable from said container member only when said lid member is turned to any selected one of a plurality of positions where said index means and said selected hour designations indicate respective times.