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A device for holding and dispensing pills which enables the dispensing of pills in successive order. Pills are mounted in a compact in a single row in the desired successive order and a pill ejector is arranged for incremental movement in one direction along the compact. When the pill ejector is adj

A device for holding and dispensing pills which enables the dispensing of pills in successive order. Pills are mounted in a compact in a single row in the desired successive order and a pill ejector is arranged for incremental movement in one direction along the compact. When the pill ejector is adjacent to a pill, a bendable member is displaced to push the pill out of a blister type package and through an opening in the rear of the compact.

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A pill holding and dispensing device which facilitates the dispensing of birth control pills in successive order, comprising, mounting means for ejectably mounting said pills in discrete spatial locations which are in a straight line in a predetermined and successive order wherein said line of pills

A pill holding and dispensing device which facilitates the dispensing of birth control pills in successive order, comprising, mounting means for ejectably mounting said pills in discrete spatial locations which are in a straight line in a predetermined and successive order wherein said line of pills includes pills which are not identical to each other wherein part of said mounting means comprises a blister type package in which said pills are disposed wherein on the exterior of said mounting means printed matter is disposed which denotes days of the week, each day appearing in correspondence with a said discrete spatial mounting location for a pill and wherein part of said mounting means comprises a compact which has a rigid rear surface having a series of discrete cut-outs which lie behind respective pills which may be ejected therethrough and wherein said compact further has a series of abutments which correspond in position to said cut-outs and wherein said compact comprises an elongated container having said series of cut-outs in a linear row along the long dimension of the compact, pill ejector means for enabling ejection of individual pills from said mounting means when at ejection positions which are in proximity to the discrete spatial locations of said individual pills in said mounting means, said ejection positions overlie individual pills, and wherein said pill ejection means includes a movable member which may be moved towards said pills when said member is at an ejection position, so as to exert a force on a pill so as to eject it from said blister type package, said pill ejector means has shoulder means for cooperating with said abutments for allowing easy incremental movement of said pill ejector means in one direction only from abutment to abutment, thereby defining said respective ejection positions wherein said abutments comprise portions of a saw-tooth surface, and wherein said movable member of said pill ejector means comprises a bendable member disposed at the front of the compact bendable towards the rear, and wherein the pill ejector means is arranged for sliding movement along the length of the compact, said series of abutments being disposed on the rear of the compact and said pill ejector means being shaped to wrap around the front, top, and bottom, and part of the rear of the compact, said shoulder being disposed on a part of the pill ejector means which wraps around the rear of the compact for engagement with abutments on the rear of the compact so as to facilitate ejection of said pills in said predetermined order.