US 12,144,782 B2
Pill cutters and methods of use
Barry Cheskin, Los Gatos, CA (US); and Terah Whiting Smiley, Davis, CA (US)
Assigned to SPLITRX LLC, Los Gatos, CA (US)
Filed by SPLITRX LLC, Los Gatos, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/816,342.
Application 17/816,342 is a continuation of application No. 17/359,381, filed on Jun. 25, 2021, granted, now 11,432,998.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/141,755, filed on Jan. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/045,003, filed on Jun. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0009753 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. A61J 7/00 (2006.01); B26B 17/00 (2006.01); B26D 7/00 (2006.01); B26D 7/01 (2006.01); F16P 3/10 (2006.01)
CPC A61J 7/0007 (2013.01) [B26B 17/00 (2013.01); B26D 7/00 (2013.01); B26D 7/01 (2013.01); F16P 3/10 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pill cutter, comprising:
a bladed portion that includes a blade; and
a base portion including,
a pill cutting surface sized and configured to receive a pill thereon, and
a first pill securing member including a first surface, the first pill securing member disposed on a first side of a blade plane and adapted to rotate about a first axis relative to the pill cutting surface and relative to one or more pill support surfaces disposed on the first side and the second side of the blade plane, and
a second pill securing member including a first surface, the second pill securing member disposed on a second side of the blade plane and adapted to rotate about a second axis relative to the pill cutting surface and relative to the one or more pill support surfaces disposed on the first side and the second side of the blade plane,
the first and second securing members each having free ends spaced away from the first and second axes, respectively, the first and second pill securing members arranged such that when the first and securing members are each in a closed state and in the absence of a pill, the free ends are directed toward the blade plane,
the one or more pill support surfaces static relative to the pill cutting surface, and
the first surfaces of the first and second pill securing members facing the one or more pill support surfaces, the first surfaces of the first and second securing members and the one or more pill support surfaces arranged to apply securing pill forces about the blade plane.