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Dispenser for the dispensing of individual tablets

  • US 5,018,644 A
  • Filed: 06/02/1989
  • Issued: 05/28/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/09/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A dispenser for dispensing individual tablets, the dispenser comprisinga housing, and a displaceable slide operable with limited stroke in the housing;

  • a tablet storage chamber with adjoining delivery chute located in the housing, there being front end closure surfaces and profiled flanks formed, in part, fixed on the housing as a fixed flank and, in part, fixed on the slide as a movable flank,a separation chamber developed in the moveable flank;

    a separation finger operable with the separation chamber and formed extending from the fixed flank which is fixed on the housing;

    wherein the separation finger comprises a vertex on the bottom side of a first oblique surface which commences on top opposite an upper closure of the separation chamber; and

    a second oblique surface is developed on the moveable flank fixed to the slide, the second oblique surface commencing at the upper closure of the separation chamber and extending in upward direction and continuously increasing the cross-section of the delivery chute, said oblique surfaces arranging the tablets in a common plane with each tablet being supported by a lower tablet, and said second oblique surface has a nose-like corner which engages a next tablet to be dispensed below a horizontal diameter of said next tablet only when the second oblique surface has moved under said next tablet.

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