Article dispensing – Plural sources – stacks or compartments – Dispensing from sources sequentially
Patent
1998-08-05
2000-05-30
Ellis, Christopher P.
Article dispensing
Plural sources, stacks or compartments
Dispensing from sources sequentially
221 90, 221 91, B65G 5900
Patent
active
060681586
ABSTRACT:
An automatic medication distributor including a hopper of general cylindrical shape, having boxes open transversally near the periphery of the hopper; a fixed base adapted to be associated to the hopper and provided, transversally and at a predetermined location of its periphery, with a delivery window; rotation drive mechanism of the hopper with respect to the base to successively bring each box in register with the delivery window; and a closing element for the delivery window, operated by the rotation of the hopper.
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Crawford Gene O.
Ellis Christopher P.
Plevy Arthur L.
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