Article dispensing – With recorder – register – indicator – signal or exhibitor
Patent
1989-03-01
1991-05-14
Valenza, Joseph E.
Article dispensing
With recorder, register, indicator, signal or exhibitor
221 7, 221 69, 221122, 221154, 36441302, 364479, G07F 1100
Patent
active
050148753
ABSTRACT:
An improved medication dispenser station is provided for controlled access storage of medications and other pharmaceuticals in a medical facility, such as a hospital or the like. The dispenser station comprises a housing with a plurality of normally locked drawers which have been preloaded with selected pharmaceutical items. A control unit on the housing is programmed to unlock the drawers one at a time to permit access to the contents thereof, with such access being contingent upon keyboard entry of a predetermined access code and other selected information sufficient to generate an access record. In a preferred form, each drawer includes multiple compartments containing multiple pharmaceutical items in a presorted array. One or more of the drawers desirably includes a multicompartment carousel tray which rotates in response to appropriate data entry via the keyboard to align and lock a designated compartment for access through an access opening in an overlying cover plate, thereby restricting access to a single compartment of the rotatable tray.
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McLaughlin Carol F.
Steusloff Patrick M.
Taylor Ronald R.
Williams William D.
Milef Boris
Pyxis Corporation
Valenza Joseph E.
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