Article dispensing – Plural sources – stacks or compartments – Dispensing from plural sources by single actuation
Patent
1995-04-21
1997-09-16
Noland, Kenneth
Article dispensing
Plural sources, stacks or compartments
Dispensing from plural sources by single actuation
221264, B65H 344
Patent
active
056670974
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for housing multiple shapes and sizes of pills and simultaneously dispensing a single pill of each type, the apparatus comprising a vertically oriented support structure with an upper, middle and lower housing portions, each portion including a plurality of identically sized and spaced conduits. The upper conduits house a plurality of pills, while each of the middle conduits are designed to hold a single pill. The middle housing portion is capable of horizontal motion, and is normally positioned in an initial holding position in which the upper and middle conduits are aligned, and the middle and lower conduits are off-set. When the middle portion is moved into a second, release position, the middle conduits misalign with the upper conduits and align with the lower conduits, thereby allowing the single pill contained within each of the middle conduits to drop through the lower conduits and into the user's hand or, alternately, into a hollow collection area for retrieving the dispensed pills.
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