Pill reminder mechanism
View Patent ↗A pill reminder mechanism including a reminder mechanism and a strap detachably coupled to the reminder mechanism. The reminder mechanism may include a strap base, an hour wheel, an hour face, a day wheel, a center hub, and a faceplate.
1. A pill reminder mechanism comprising:
a strap base,
a strap detachably connected to the strap base for encircling a bottle to retain the strap base on a bottle,
a circular hour wheel positioned over a front face of the strap base and rotatable about a central axis of the strap base,
a circular hour face positioned over a front face of the hour wheel and having a diameter that is less than a diameter of the circular hour wheel,
a circular day wheel positioned over a front face of the hour face and rotatable about the central axis and the circular day wheel having a diameter that is less than the diameter of the diameter of the circular hour wheel,
a circular center hub positioned over a front face of the circular day wheel and the circular center hub having a diameter that is less than the diameter of the circular day wheel,
a circular faceplate positioned over the front face of the circular center hub having a diameter that is less than the diameter of the circular day wheel, and
a screw positioned along the central axis configured to cause the strap base, the circular hour wheel, the circular hour face, the circular day wheel, the circular center hub and the circular faceplate to be secured in position with respect to one another;
wherein the strap base includes a plurality of openings configured to receive the strap;
wherein each of the circular hour face, the circular center hub, and the circular faceplate includes a slot on an outer side edge thereof; and
wherein the circular hour wheel has a front cavity that is sized to fully receive the circular hour face and a portion of the circular day wheel, and the circular day wheel has a front cavity that is sized to fully receive the circular center hub and circular faceplate when the pill reminder mechanism is fully assembled.
2. The pill reminder mechanism as defined in claim 1 , wherein the strap base has two parallel rectangular pegs protruding from a rear face of the strap base opposite the front face of the strap base.
3. The pill reminder mechanism as defined in claim 1 , wherein both the circular day wheel and circular hour wheel have non-circular central opening, both the strap base and the circular center hub comprise a spring arm, which engages the non-circular central openings of the circular day wheel and circular hour wheel.