Nicholas C Farside

US Patent:

58164413, Oct 6, 1998

Filed:

Jan 25, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/591050

Inventors:

Nicholas Farside - East Petersburg PA

Assignee:

Kerr Group, Inc. - Lancaster PA

International Classification:

B65G 5900

US Classification:

221152

Abstract:

A dispenser for dispensing tablets one at a time which includes a feature which prevents children from dispensing tablets. The dispenser has a reservoir, a chamber below the reservoir in which the tablets are arranged in a single layer and a dispensing passageway which leads to a dispensing orifice. The passageway is of such a width that a single column of tablets can be accommodated. The passageway is defined by portions of a moving slider member and can be moved from a non-dispensing position to a dispensing position, after an unlocking plunger is depressed. The plunger presses down a biased locking plate to disengage a locking projection on the slider from a locking face in the container. In the dispensing position, the lowermost tablet is dispensed whereas the remaining tablets in the column are retained in the passageway by a fixed protuberance. One side of the passageway is resilient to minimize tablet damage.

US Patent:

55885462, Dec 31, 1996

Filed:

May 26, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/249769

Inventors:

Nicholas Farside - Lancaster PA

Assignee:

Kerr Group, Inc. - Lancaster PA

International Classification:

B65D 4314

US Classification:

215237

Abstract:

A closure has a stay-open lid. A nib on the lid, which frictionally engages the walls of a void on the base, allows the lid to stay-open unless forcibly closed by the user.

US Patent:

56579012, Aug 19, 1997

Filed:

Feb 5, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/596934

Inventors:

Nicholas Farside - East Petersburg PA

Assignee:

Kerr Group, Inc. - Lancaster PA

International Classification:

B65G 5900

US Classification:

221152

Abstract:

A dispenser of dispensing tablets one at a time which includes a feature which prevents children from dispensing tablets. The dispenser has a reservoir and a moving slider member that can be moved from a non-dispensing position to a dispensing position, after an locking pin or detent is unlocked. The unlocking pin or detent is mounted on a movable thumbpad, which requires the application of upward force to unlock the locking pin or detent from a locking hole or recess. The slider member has a chamber which holds only one tablet, which chamber moves from a position where the tablet is blocked from dropping from the chamber to a position where the chamber is aligned with a dispensing opening. In the dispensing position, the tablet in the chamber is dispensed, whereas the remaining tablets in the dispenser prevented from entering the chamber by a wall on the slider member.

US Patent:

59796804, Nov 9, 1999

Filed:

Oct 10, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/949140

Inventors:

Nicholas C. Farside - East Petersburg PA

Assignee:

Kerr Group, Inc. - Lancaster PA

International Classification:

B65D 5502

US Classification:

215216

Abstract:

A child-resistant adult-friendly prescription storage vial is presented with an over-cap which can only be removed from the vial by first orienting the cap at a particular point on the vial and then depressing a pair of push-tabs on the cap. When the cap is properly oriented the push-tabs mechanically operate a pair of locking tabs on the vial which hold the cap in place. The locking tabs are designed so that an extended lip on the tab interlocks with a slit on the cap and can only be removed from the slit when the push-tabs on the cap are manually operated.