Patent ID: 8365507
Filing Date: 2013-02-05
Classification: B65B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for personalized provisioning of medicament-dispensers the apparatus comprising: a store for holding a plurality of different medicaments which are contained in standard blister packs in which a trough-shaped cup which is covered with a blister film is present for each of a plurality of administering units of medicaments, wherein the blister packs are arranged in vertical stacks in the store, and which are guided so as to be capable of sliding vertically, within magazine shafts which are respectfully assigned to various medicaments; a de-blistering device scratching or cutting to facilitate an opening of the cover of one of the cups of the blister pack; a transporting apparatus for positioning the medicament-dispensers at a delivery apparatus; an electronic control unit which generates, from a system for processing machine-readable, person-related data which can be read and processed in a defined correlation with the transport of the dispensers, control signals to drive electronically controllable drives for the de-blistering device and the delivery apparatus; a plurality of installation modules each having a blister-pack shaft, a punching apparatus and the delivery apparatus arranged so as to be capable of being mounted, along the transporting apparatus, at distances from one another which correspond to a distance between receiving compartments in the medicament-dispensers or to an integral multiple of the distance; for each magazine shaft, a slide which receives a lowest blister pack in a respective stack, the slides structured to shift into a receiving position after one of the blister packs which has been emptied is removed, and structured to push the blister pack out of the position again and into a de-blistering and provisioning station; in which: the slides include a guide part, for horizontally displaceable guidance and a window part to receive the blister packs in a form-locking manner, the window part of the slide being rotatable, relative to the guide part, by 180° about a common central longitudinal axis of the slide; and in which: the slides can be shifted out of the particular magazine shaft, transversely to the transporting apparatus of the medicament-dispensers, to an extent such that it is possible to carry out, in a de-blistering region, the scratching or cutting of the covering films of the blister packs, a removal of the medicament from the cup which has been opened, and a delivery of the medicament to the particular medicament-dispenser.