Patent ID: 6021918
Filing Date: 2000-02-08
Classification: A61J,G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
A dispenser for pills comprising:a. a housing having a deck formed with a central drive opening and a line of delivery apertures outward from the drive opening,b. a motor in the housing driving an upward drive shaft accessible through the opening in the deck,c. a drive disk supported by the deck and operatively connected to the drive shaft for rotation, the disc having a circular line of open-bottomed pill compartments inward from a peripheral margin thereof, the pills dropping as the compartments on the disk successively come over a more-inward delivery aperture,d. a ring supported by the deck and surrounding the disk and also having a circular line of open-bottomed pill compartments therealong, the pills dropping as the compartments on the ring successively come over a more-outward delivery aperture,e. tab portions on the disk and ring arranged so that, after pills have dropped from compartments on the disk, the tab portions will engage so that continued rotation of the disk by the motor will rotate the ring.