Package making – Methods – Forming a cover adjunct or application of a cover adjunct to...
Patent
1987-04-13
1988-12-13
Culver, Horace M.
Package making
Methods
Forming a cover adjunct or application of a cover adjunct to...
53451, 53131, 53244, 53554, B65B 6102, B65B 504, B65B 506
Patent
active
047901187
ABSTRACT:
A medication packaging and dispensing machine has a solid oral medication feeder bowl mounted near the top and a sizing disk in the feeder bowl to receive the medication units such as capsules or tablets from the bowl and deliver them individually to a drop tube through which they descend to a packaging station. Packing strip material stored in two rolls is pulled into the packaging station by a cooperating pair of rotary pull and seal platens which move the strips around the medication units and seal the strips together perimetrically around each unit. A printer prints medication and patient identifying information and prescribed administration date and time information on one of the strips for each unit as the strip is moved toward the packaging station. Gear drive and gear belt drive means and position sensing switch and motor control means coordinate the movement of the disk drive with the movement of the platens and the printer whereby each packaged unit has relevant information printed thereon. Units are packaged continuously, thereby developing a continuous strip of packages of units of one identity for a series of patients, with prescription information for each packaged unit shown on the package as prescribed and identified with the prescription information previously stored or simultaneously entered in a machine controlling computer.
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patent: 2742184 (1956-04-01), Yerkes et al.
patent: 3068916 (1962-12-01), Richardson
"Automated Dispensing . . . Patient Specific Unit Dose"-Brochure by Travenol Laboratories, Inc., Deerfield, Ill., 414170, Travenol Laboratories, Inc.-10/85.
Culver Horace M.
Econodose, Inc.
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