Portable medicine case
View Patent ↗A portable carrying case is described to hold medicine vials during travel, doctors' visits, etc. The case includes an open-topped box with a hinged lid and attachment means to secure the lid to the box. The case further includes a vial support platform, which may be the upper surface of the box, or a separate platform attachable to the box bottom wall. The platform has a plurality of spaced, parallel divider walls having lower edges attached to the support surface and upper edges. The divider walls have aligned left holes and aligned right holes. An elastic cord is slidable through aligned holes to cord ends outside an end divider wall. A cord lock is used to adjust the length of the cord. The support surface, walls and cord form a plurality of adjustable vial receiving compartments, with the force on each vial being equal regardless of differences in vial sizes.
1. A portable carrying case for holding a plurality of medicine vials comprising:
a) an open-topped box having a bottom wall, spaced parallel side walls and spaced parallel end walls, the side and end walls extending upwardly from the outer periphery of the bottom wall to a common upper edge;
b) a lid hinged to one of the side walls to extend over the top of the box;
c) attachment means to secure the lid to the box;
d) a vial support surface with a plurality of spaced divider walls having lower edges attached to the support surface and upper edges, each divider wall having two spaced holes adjacent the wall upper edge;
e) a cord slidable through the divider wall holes, the support surface, walls and cord together forming a plurality of adjustable vial receiving compartments; and
f) cord adjustment means for adjusting the length of the cord to tension the cord against vials when vials are inserted into said compartments.
2. The case of claim 1 , wherein said bottom wall includes a bottom wall upper surface, said bottom wall upper surface comprising said vial support surface.
3. The case of claim 1 , further including a planar platform releasibly attached to said bottom wall, said platform having an upper surface comprising said vial support surface.
4. The case of claim 1 , including a plurality of rows of spaced divider walls.
5. The case of claim 1 , wherein said divider walls are flexible.
6. The case of claim 1 , wherein grommets are inserted in each of said holes.
7. The case of claim 1 , wherein said cord is elastic.
8. The case of claim 1 , wherein said holes comprise aligned left holes and aligned right holes, the cord extending from a first cord end outside a first end wall through the aligned left holes to outside the opposed end wall and then through the aligned right holes to a second cord end outside said first end wall, said cord ends being joined by said cord adjustment means.
9. The case of claim 1 , wherein said walls and lid are padded.
10. The case of claim 1 , wherein said lid includes an inner surface with a plurality of pockets.
11. A portable carrying case for holding a plurality of medicine vials comprising:
a) an open-topped box having a bottom wall, spaced parallel side walls and spaced parallel end walls, the side and end walls extending upwardly from the outer periphery of the bottom wall to a common upper edge;
b) a lid hinged to one of the side walls to extend over the top of the box;
c) attachment means to secure the lid to the box;
d) a planar platform releasibly attached to said bottom wall, said platform having an upper vial support surface with a plurality of spaced, parallel divider walls having lower edges attached to the support surface and upper edges, said divider walls having aligned left holes and aligned right holes;
e) a looped cord slidable through the aligned left divider wall holes and then through the aligned right divider holes to cord ends outside an end divider wall, the support surface, walls and cord together forming a plurality of adjustable vial receiving compartments; and
f) slidable cord adjustment means attached to the ends of the cord for adjusting the length of the cord to tension the cord against vials when vials are inserted into said compartments.
12. The case of claim 11 , including two rows of spaced, parallel divider walls, each row including an uneven number of divider walls.
13. The case of claim 11 , wherein the cord adjustment means is a spring-loaded cord lock.
14. The case of claim 11 , wherein the divider walls are spaced equidistant from each other.
15. The case of claim 11 , further including a carrying handle or a shoulder strap.
16. A portable carrying case for holding a plurality of medicine vials comprising:
a) an open-topped box having a bottom wall, spaced parallel side walls and spaced parallel end walls, the side and end walls extending upwardly from the outer periphery of the bottom wall to a common upper edge;
b) a lid hinged to one of the side walls to extend over the top of the box;
c) a zipper to secure the lid to the box;
d) a planar platform releasibly attached to said bottom wall, said platform having an upper vial support surface with first and second parallel rows of spaced, parallel divider walls, said divider walls having lower edges attached to the support surface and upper edges, the divider walls in each row having aligned left holes and aligned right holes;
e) each row of divider walls including a looped elastic cord slidable through the aligned left divider wall holes and then through the aligned right divider holes to cord ends outside an end divider wall, the support surface, walls and cord in each row together forming a plurality of adjustable vial receiving compartments; and
f) an adjustable cord lock attached to the ends of the cord for adjusting the length of the cord to tension the cord against vials when vials are inserted into said compartments, the force on each vial being equal regardless of the vial sizes.
17. The case of claim 16 , wherein said divider walls are flexible.
18. The case of claim 16 , wherein the divider walls are spaced equidistant from each other.
19. The case of claim 16 , said lid includes an inner surface with at least one pocket.
20. The case of claim 16 , wherein said bottom wall has an upper surface and said platform has a lower surface, the platform lower surface being releasibly attached to the bottom wall upper surface with hook and loop fastener.