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Cassette pill storing, dispensing and counting machine

  • US 4,018,358 A
  • Filed: 09/18/1975
  • Issued: 04/19/1977
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/18/1975
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A cassette pill storing, dispensing and counting machine comprising:

  • a machine enclosure having one side wall on which a cassette for storing and dispensing pills is positioned, said one side wall having a vacuum source and a wheel driving means, said cassette including a pair of side walls, a pair of end walls and top and bottom walls defining a storage chamber,a rotatable pill conveying wheel engaging said wheel driving means positioned in one of said side walls and including a plurality of openings providing communication between said chamber and the outside vacuum source annularly arranged around the wheel'"'"'s axis of rotation for holding pills on said wheel under a vacuum from said vacuum source,a discharge opening in communication with said chamber, anda pill separator means positioned to operatively separate said pills from said wheel such that said pills are discharged through said discharge opening upon said wheel having conveyed said pills to said separator means, said wheel driving means having an annular rotating wall having an outer edge engaging said pill conveying wheel and being held in engagement by said vacuum applied to said wheel by said vacuum source.

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