Patent ID: 8146753
Filing Date: 2012-04-03
Classification: A61G,G07F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A medicine cart comprising: a plurality of cassettes which are upwardly open and accommodate a plurality of medicine containers in an upright state in a row; a shelf plate on which a plurality of the cassettes are placed and which is drawable out of a main body of the medicine cart; a pressing member in each of the plurality of cassettes, the pressing member being adapted to forwardly press a rearmost medicine container; a locking means for locking the pressing member of each of the plurality of cassettes at a predetermined position in its respective cassette; and an unlocking means for canceling the lock of each of the pressing members, wherein the unlocking means simultaneously cancels the lock of the pressing member in each of the plurality of the cassettes caused by the locking means if the shelf plate is pushed into the main body of the medicine cart, wherein the locking means comprises a plurality of locking levers, wherein each locking lever is rotatably provided to correspond to a respective one of the plurality of the cassettes, wherein each locking lever comprises a claw biased in a direction wherein the claw is lockable to its respective pressing member, and wherein each locking lever is fixed to a common spindle and rotatable around the common spindle.