Article dispensing – With recorder – register – indicator – signal or exhibitor – Dispenser operated register
Patent
1975-09-18
1977-04-19
Reeves, Robert B.
Article dispensing
With recorder, register, indicator, signal or exhibitor
Dispenser operated register
221 13, 221197, 221211, B65B 5720
Patent
active
040183580
ABSTRACT:
Different types of pills are stored in separate cassettes which may be operated by a dispensing machine for dispensing from the cassette into a vial. The dispensing machine provides a vacuum supply and a drive for operating a wheel in the cassette having a series of openings annularly arranged to pick up pills in the bottom of the cassette and carry them to a discharge opening under the vacuum pressure. A separator wall extending across the line of travel of the holes carrying pills deflects the pills through the discharge opening. A gauge is adjustable to overlie a portion of the openings in the wheel to vary the opening size so that only a single pill is carried by each opening. A photoelectric cell triggered by a fiber optic scanner at the discharge opening counts each pill. An agitator turns with the conveying wheel to break up pills bridged together. A switch is utilized to set an electronic counter to the number of pills desired. This counter then successively counts down until it reaches zero at which point the machine stops.
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Havener John W.
Hoglan Jack M.
Johnson Robert D.
Kilburn Norman W.
Reyner, Jr. Franklin W.
Bartuska Francis J.
Pharmaceutical Innovators Ltd.
Reeves Robert B.
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