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A tablet container having a cover and sliding tray is used for dispensing birth control tablets for either a twenty-one-day or twenty-eight-day cycle. Normally, the tray does not slide completely out of the cover and is stabilized with respect thereto when open. The case resembles a cosmetic compact

A tablet container having a cover and sliding tray is used for dispensing birth control tablets for either a twenty-one-day or twenty-eight-day cycle. Normally, the tray does not slide completely out of the cover and is stabilized with respect thereto when open. The case resembles a cosmetic compact and is reuseable in that once birth control tablets contained in a blister pack are used up, a new blister pack may easily be inserted.

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A container specifically for containing tablets, such as birth control tablets, retained in an array in a blister pack, the container comprising: a tray made of plastic for supporting the blister pack on a deck surrounded by parallel front and back walls and by parallel side walls, the deck having a

A container specifically for containing tablets, such as birth control tablets, retained in an array in a blister pack, the container comprising: a tray made of plastic for supporting the blister pack on a deck surrounded by parallel front and back walls and by parallel side walls, the deck having an array of holes therethrough corresponding to the array of tablets retained in the blister pack; the deck having first and second surfaces, the first surface being in abutment with the blister pack and the second surface being exposed, whereby tablets may be dispensed from the blister pack by pressing against the tablets to push the tablets from the first surface, through the holes and out past the second surface; a land disposed on the tray adjacent to the deck, the land having fixed indicia for displaying the days of the week aligned with the holes through the deck; the tray member having a prescribed length between inner and outer ends, the inner end having a box frame just inboard thereof and the outer end being a completely flat end plate having a pair of oppositely opening notches; a cover made of plastic and slidably receiving the tray member for covering the contents of the container, the cover member being bottomless; the cover member having a top panel for covering the first surface of the deck when the tray member is slidably received within the cover member and the cover member being open adjacent the second surface of the deck member; the cover member having a pair of opposed side walls with lips extending toward one another and spaced from the top panel for retaining the tray member therebetween and a back wall for stopping sliding movement of the tray member; the side walls of the cover member each having an outer surface defined by a pair of convex flutes spaced by a projection planar portion; the cover member having a length slightly greater than the tray member, wherein when the tray member is pushed completely into the cover member the end plate of the tray member is within the cover member and flush with respect to end of cover member, with the pair of opposed lips being received within the oppositely opening notches; stop means for preventing the tray member from disengaging completely from the cover member; the stop means including a pair of opposed, longitudinally extending grooves in the pair of opposed side walls of the cover member and a pair of resilient lateral detents integral with the tray member and positioned outboard of the box frame, the detents being received in the opposed grooves, the opposed grooves having stops adjacent the open end of the cover member, which stops are engaged by the detents when the tray member is in the fully open position to limit projection of the tray member from the cover member, wherein a portion of the tray member remains within the cover member when the tray is fully projected; a plurality of lug members positioned in spaced relation with respect to the first surface of the deck for retaining the blister pack in abutment with the first surface; and a pair of opposed guide walls positioned adjacent the first surface of the deck and extending at an oblique angle with respect to the back walls of the tray member for orienting the blister pack correctly with respect to the array holes through the deck.