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Devices useful in system and method for dispensing prescriptions

  • US 7,866,506 B2
  • Filed: 11/06/2007
  • Issued: 01/11/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2005
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An apparatus for dispensing containers, comprising:

  • a plurality of dispensing tubes mounted in a generally vertical disposition and configured to receive a plurality of containers in vertically stacked relationship;

    a rotary drive unit associated with the dispensing tubes that rotates the dispensing tubes about a substantially vertical axis of rotation;

    a lower plate member positioned below the dispensing tubes, the lower plate member having a cutaway region positioned such that, as the dispensing tubes rotate about the axis of rotation, each dispensing tube passes over the cutaway region;

    a receptacle positioned below the cutaway region; and

    a dislodging structure mounted to the lower plate member away from the cutaway region that is positioned and configured such that, when a lowermost container in a dispensing tube is lodged with a second lowermost container in that dispensing tube, the dislodging structure dislodges the lowermost container from the second lowermost container.

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