Patent ID: 7907477

Claim:
A disposable variable interval electronic timer for facilitating the dosing of medication comprising: a disk adapted to be affixed to a medication bottle cap, said disk having upper and lower major surfaces and comprising a timer having (i) a timer circuit, (ii) a timer display adjacent the upper major surface of the disk, and (iii) means for supplying electrical power to said circuit and display; an adhesive layer on the lower major surface of the disk, said layer having a cover that can be peeled off to expose the adhesive layer so that the timer can be secured to the bottle cap; and a control button operatively associated with said circuit that (i) in a start-stop mode starts the timer when the control button is pressed for less than a first predetermined number of seconds so that an alarm within the timer sounds after a preset time interval, and (ii) in an interval setting mode sets the timer to a different preset time interval when the control button is pressed for at least a second predetermined number of seconds to cause a preset hourly interval number to display and begin to increment up one hour at a time, held until the desired preset time interval is displayed, and then released to set the number then displayed as the new hourly interval.