Lockable cap for medical prescription bottle
A lockable cap, is a security feature for a medical prescription bottle. There is a three dial locking mechanism that is attached to the cap and the dial locking mechanism and the cap can be attached or removed from the bottle only when the user has the correct combination on the dial lock.
1. A cap lock attachable to a bottle comprising:
a housing having a cap portion and a base portion, said cap portion having an upper surface with a plurality of first gaps therein, said housing including;
an alignment spacer device mounted within said housing;
a rotatable dial lock mounted within said alignment spacer device, said rotatable dial lock having numeric cogs and cams in mechanical relationship with each other to allow the numerical cogs to spin independently and be settable to a plurality of settings;
a dog plate, mounted to said housing for free rotation in the housing, said dog plate having a set of gear teeth that allow at least one point of contact with a locking plate to exert sufficient tension to remove the cap portion;
the locking plate having a plurality of second gaps in alignment with the plurality of first gaps whereby the numeric cogs are held in place by the plurality of first gaps and the plurality of second gaps, the locking plate being pivotally mounted to said alignment spacer device and movable between a locked position and an unlocked position;
the locking plate being in the unlocked position when the numeric cogs are set to a predetermined setting, and being in the locked position when the numeric cogs are set to a setting other than the predetermined setting; and
the locking plate having a reset access so that the predetermined setting can be reset when the locking plate is in the unlocked position and the reset pin being blocked by an arm of the locking plate when said locking plate is in said locked position so that the predetermined setting cannot be reset.
2. The cap lock of claim 1 wherein said alignment spacer device is mounted to said housing by a snap fit.
3. The cap lock of claim 2 wherein said alignment spacing device has at least one channel for guiding said cogs into alignment with said plurality of first gaps.
4. The cap lock of claim 3 wherein said channel provides non-rotation permanent mounting of said alignment spacer device in said housing.
5. The cap lock of claim 1 wherein said base portion is permanently attached to said housing by an interlocking fit between said base portion and said housing.
6. The cap lock of claim 1 wherein said locking plate has an extension that can be placed into engagement or disengagement with said dog plate, said locking plate being placed in said locked position comprising at least one of said cams placing said extension into disengagement with said dog plate whereby said cap cannot be removed from said bottle.
7. The cap lock of claim 5 wherein said interlocking fit is a snap fit.
8. The cap lock of claim 2 , wherein said set of gear teeth of said dog plate rotate and said release component includes a portion that connects with said set of gear teeth.
9. The cap lock of claim 6 wherein the position at which said portion connects to said set of gear teeth depends the position of said dial lock with relation to said dog plate.
10. The cap of claim 6 wherein said set of gear teeth slip when said locking plate is in said locked position.
11. The cap of claim 6 wherein said set of gear teeth cannot slip when said locking plate is in said unlocked position.
12. The cap lock of claim 6 wherein said set of gear teeth of said dog plate rotate horizontally with respect to the upper surface of said cap portion.