Patent ID: 9636279
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: A61J,B65D

Claim:
1. A lockable pill bottle for a plurality of pills, comprising: a container with pill holder and funnel directing said plurality of pills in said container single file into a shaft in continuous communication with said funnel; a movable blocking device fixedly attached to said pill bottle, said movable blocking device, in a first position, is locked in place with a portal which is in continuous communication with said shaft; a timing mechanism which, after a pre-determined amount of time, unlocks said movable blocking device, allowing said blocking device to be manually moved to a second position where said portal is spaced apart from, and is no longer in communication with said shaft; wherein said portal is open to an exterior of said pill bottle after said blocking device is manually moved to said second position; and wherein said movable blocking device slides in a direction circumferentially away from said exterior of said pill bottle about an axis which is stationary with respect to said exterior of said pill bottle, such that in said second position of said blocking device said portal extends at an acute angle with respect to said shaft, said angle having a vertex below said shaft.