Patent ID: 6904867

Claim:
A calculated dose medicine dispenser for use in conjunction with a medicine bottle having a medicine bottle cap and containing a supply of medicine, comprising: a dose cup having a conical sidewall with a large diameter open end and a smaller diameter closed end with an end wall closing the closed end; indicia on the cup for indicating an amount of medicine in the cup; an indent in the end wall with a diameter corresponding the diameter of a medicine bottle cap for a frictional fit of a medicine bottle cap; a data disc carrying a first set of information bits in a first circular array, and a second set of information bits in a second circular array concentric with and radially spaced from the first circular array, said information bits in the first set being functionally related to the information bits in the second set; a dial having a dial plate; said data disc positioned on the exterior surface of the cup end wall and fixed from rotational movement thereon with said information sets facing away from the cup end wall; said dial plate positioned over the data disc and interconnected with the cup permitting rotational movement of the dial plate relative to the data disc; said dial plate having a first sight window positioned to individually display information bits from the first set of information; said dial plate having a second sight window positioned to individually display information bits from the second information set such that an information bit displayed at the second sight window is functionally related to the information bit simultaneously displayed at the first sight window upon rotation of the dial plate relative to the cup.