Patent ID: 7055693

Claim:
A medicine organizer useful for storing and dispensing pills, comprising: an organizer body having an upper end, a lower end, and side walls connecting said upper end and said lower end; said upper end and said lower end configured to provide a nestable relationship among two of said organizer bodies; a bottle storage unit of said organizer body, said bottle storage unit configured to retain a plurality of pill bottles in fixed locations; a pill storage unit of said organizer body for receiving a supply of pills to be taken on a periodic basis, said pill storage unit having a plurality of pill compartments each for receiving a supply of pills; wherein said pill storage unit comprises a plurality of individual pill trays providing said plurality of pill compartments; wherein said organizer body comprises an upper frame removably connected to a lower frame, said upper frame providing said bottle storage unit, and said lower frame providing said pill storage unit; and said individual pill trays are each removable from said lower frame of said organizer body; wherein said individual pill trays each include a removable tray lid; wherein said lower frame includes a plurality of tray openings for receiving said trays; wherein said individual pill trays are each divided into a plurality of pill subcompartments; wherein said tray lids are slidably received within recesses of said pill trays, and wherein said tray lids are slidable to selectively open one or more subcompartments of said pill trays while leaving remaining subcompartments closed.