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A dial pill box comprises a container having 28 arcuate storage compartments for pills and the like, a pair of lids, and a central pivot pin which pivotably holds together the container and the lids. The pivot pin enables the containers to be assembled by snapping the lids onto the container and ove

A dial pill box comprises a container having 28 arcuate storage compartments for pills and the like, a pair of lids, and a central pivot pin which pivotably holds together the container and the lids. The pivot pin enables the containers to be assembled by snapping the lids onto the container and over the pivot pin and to be disassembled by pinching together the resiliently bifurcated ends of the pivot pin and pushing these ends toward the lids and through their central holes. After removing both lids, a user can fill the container with a week\s supply of pills, capsules, tablets, and the like of pharmaceuticals, vitamins, and/or minerals. He can spin the upper lid independently of the lower lid in one direction, so that none of the four segment apertures in the upper lid coincide with the access sector of the lower lid, whereby the dial pill box is in position for storage and transportation. By spinning both lids together in the opposite direction, the user can place the access sector in the lower lid over a selected storage sector, having four storage compartments, which is marked for the desired day of the week. By then spinning the upper lid again in the first direction, he can spirally place a selected segment aperture, corresponding to the selected time of day, over the access sector and then remove the pills therefrom.

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An oral, solid dosage form, pharmaceutical dispenser comprising: a flat, circular container with a transparent walled base having a plurality of arcuate storage compartments arranged within main radial sector storage compartments formed by radial walls and a peripheral wall, all of the arcuate circu

An oral, solid dosage form, pharmaceutical dispenser comprising: a flat, circular container with a transparent walled base having a plurality of arcuate storage compartments arranged within main radial sector storage compartments formed by radial walls and a peripheral wall, all of the arcuate circular segment, storage compartments being formed by sub-dividing the radial walls by annular walls: a lower circular lid and an upper circular lid superposed over the lower lid, each lid having a central hole, the lower lid having a peripheral skirt and a single radial sector storage compartment access opening corresponding in shape and dimension to each main radial sector storage compartment, the upper lid having a plurality of radially and circumferentially spaced arcuate circular segment compartment-access openings corresponding in shape to each respective arcuate circular segment compartment, the peripheral skirt of said lower lid encompassing a portion of the exterior of said peripheral wall of the base; a resilient bifurcated pivot pin for detachably and rotatably clamping the lids onto the container and for removal of the lids from the container to recharge the container with dosages; lower interlocking means comprising means on the exterior of the peripheral wall and fixed with respect to the base for interlocking with complementary shaped means on the lower edge of the peripheral skirt of, and fixed with respect to, the lower lid and rotating only when the said lid is rotated, upper interlocking means comprising means on the upper surface of, and fixed with respect to, the lower lid interlocking with complementary shaped means on the lower surface of the upper lid, and fixed with respect to the upper lid and rotated with the upper lid, all of said interlocking means cooperating when the lids are rotated by hand for controlling the rotational direction of the lids with respect to each other and the base and providing dosage interval click stops whereby all compartments may be covered and radial sector storage compartments and arcuate segment storage compartments selectively and successively uncovered and dosage dispensed from the compartments through lid openings, said lower interlocking means allowing said lower lid to be rotated in one direction only with respect to said container and said upper interlocking means allowing said upper lid and said lower lid to be rotated together in said one direction and said upper lid to be rotated by itself in the opposite direction, to close all compartments or selectively open compartments whereby rotation of both said lids in said one direction enables said radial sector compartment access opening of said lower lid to be located above and aligned with one selected radial sector storage compartment of said container and rotation of said upper lid in said other direction enables one of said arcuate access openings to be located above and aligned with one of said correspondingly shaped arcuate storage compartments of said container.