Control apparatus

Abstract

A control apparatus having an assembly adapted to house an object to be controlled; a first member mounted on the assembly for selective movement between a closed position, disposed in covering relation to the assembly, and an opened position, providing access to the assembly; and a second member mounted on the assembly for selective movement between a closed position, disposed in covering relation to the first member when the first member is in the closed position, and an opened position, disposed selectively to permit the first member to be moved between the closed position and the opened position thereof.

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       4 . A control apparatus comprising an assembly adapted to house an object to be dispensed; a first member mounted on the assembly for selective movement between a closed position. disposed in covering relation to said assembly, and an opened position, providing access to said assembly and said first member has an inner surface on which is displayed indicia which, in the opened position of the first member, provides information regarding said object to be dispensed; and a second member mounted on said housing and being of unitary construction wherein the first member and second member are united along a fold line and the second member having an outer surface on which is displayed indicia which, in the closed position of the second member, identifies said object to be dispensed. 
   
   
       5 . The control apparatus of  claim 4  wherein said indicia displayed on the outer surface of the second member includes an area bearing a color to identify the object to be dispensed. 
   
   
       6 . The control apparatus of  claim 5  wherein, when the first member and the second member are in their respective closed positions, the control apparatus is disposed in a substantially rigid and flat configuration and in which said area bearing said color is disposed adjacent to an edge of the outer surface of the second member whereby a plurality of said control apparatuses can be disposed in substantially rigid, upright relation with each area thereof individually bearing a predetermined color displayed for individual identification of information relating to said object to be dispensed contained therein. 
   
   
       7 . The control apparatus of  claim 6  wherein said assembly mounts a plurality of containers individually enclosing a compartments adapted to house said object to be dispensed substantially facing the first member when said first member is in the closed position thereof. 
   
   
       8 . The control apparatus of  claim 7  wherein the assembly has an interior surface on which said plurality of containers are mounted and an opposite exterior surface and in which a third member is mounted on the assembly in substantially facing engagement with said exterior surface of the assembly individually to capture an object to be disposed in said container. 
   
   
       9 . The control apparatus of  claim 8  wherein each of said containers is substantially transparent to reveal the object to be dispensed in said compartment thereof, in which each of said compartments communicates with the exterior surface of the assembly and the third member has a panel therein for substantially sealing said compartments to capture said object to be dispensed therefrom within the compartment and adapted selectively to be ruptured to release the object to be dispensed from its respective container through the exterior surface of the third member to dispense said object to be dispensed from its individual container. 
   
   
       10 . The control apparatus of  claim 8  wherein said object to be dispensed is medication to be dispensed by a person to administer the medication and said indicia displayed on the inner surface of the first member, in said opened position includes data relating to the object to be dispensed so as to confirm to said person the instructions relating to the administration of said medication. 
   
   
       11 . The control apparatus of  claim 10  wherein said interior surface of the assembly bears indicia adjacent to each container indicating the time at which said medication is to be dispensed from each container. 
   
   
       12 . The control apparatus of  claim 11  wherein said outer surface of the second member bears information relating to the object to be dispensed.