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Automatic prescription dispensing system

  • US 5,660,305 A
  • Filed: 05/31/1995
  • Issued: 08/26/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/02/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An automatic prescription dispensing system comprising a multiplicity of pill dispensers in one conveyer line, each of said dispensers defining a fill position and each being operable to dispense pills into a pill bottle in the fill position of such dispenser, the fill positions of said dispensers being arranged in columns and rows, a conveyer comprising means to carry pill bottles arranged in columns and rows, carrying the columns of pill bottles severally through the columns of fill positions so that each pill bottle in a column passes through fill positions to receive pills from each pill dispenser of a corresponding column, control means to selectively predetermine each of said pill bottles to receive a specific prescription and operable to simultaneously release the pills of different prescriptions into selected pill bottles from said pill dispensers, each pill bottle receiving the pills of a prescription when the pill bottle predetermined to receive such prescription reaches a fill position of a pill dispenser containing the pills of such prescription, said pill dispensers being controlled by said control means to release the number of pills called for in said prescriptions.

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