Patent ID: 6170229
Filing Date: 2001-01-09
Classification: B65B,G07F

Abstract:
An improved automatic tablet dispenser comprising a tablet dropping unit having a drum communicating with a plurality of release holes which open to a plurality of tablet cassettes storing therein and releasing therefrom a measured quantity of tablets, wherein each of said tablet cassettes comprising:a) a medicine case having a cylindrical opening through a lower portion thereof;b) a cylindrical rotor having an upper surface and a vertically formed outer periphery, wherein the upper surface has a central portion, wherein a plurality of guide teeth are formed along the outer periphery, wherein a plurality of insert openings are alternately formed among the guide teeth, wherein the cylindrical rotor is rotatably introduced through the cylindrical opening of the medicine case and serves to temporarily maintain the tablets within the medicine case, and wherein a waved guide having a vertex is formed on the upper surface of the cylindrical rotor;c) a male gear disposed below the medicine case and rotatably engaged to the cylindrical rotor so that the cylindrical rotor can be rotated in correspondence to the male gear, whereby the tablets maintained in the medicine case are serially loaded in each of the insert openings and the measure quantity of the tablets are controllably dropped into a corresponding one of the release holes; andd) a vertically raised protrusion formed on the central surface portion of said upper surface of said rotor so as to smoothly agitate the tablets received in the medicine case and prevent said tablets from tangling together with said waved guide while allowing the tablets to be evenly loaded into said each insert opening when the rotor is rotated by the male gear.