Patent ID: 6581356
Filing Date: 2003-06-24
Classification: B65B,G07F

Abstract:
A tablet dispensing and packaging system, comprising:a) a drum unit accommodating a plurality of tablet cassettes communicating with elongated tablet channels to allow tablets in the tablet cassettes to selectively fall through the elongated tablet channels; b) a base tray defined by an upper surface, a lower surface and a thickness to slide in underneath the drum unit and slide out from underneath the drum unit, wherein a plurality of first openings are formed through the upper and lower surfaces of the base tray, wherein a first membrane having first pores is slidably provided on the lower surface of the base tray to either keep tablets in the first openings or drop the tablets through the pores in the first membrane when slidably displaced to a predetermined extent; c) a removable tray defined by a top surface, a bottom surface and a thickness, wherein a plurality of second openings are formed through the top and bottom surfaces of the removable tray, wherein a second membrane having second pores is slidably provided on the lower surface of the removable tray to either keep tablets in the second openings or drop the tablets through the second pores when slidably displaced to a predetermined extent, wherein the removable tray is detachably mountable on the slid-out base tray; d) a lever attached to the removable tray to control a sidewise slide of the second membrane so that a manipulation of the lever allows the tablets kept by the second membrane in the second openings to fall down through the second pores into the corresponding first openings of the base tray, in accordance with the lever manipulation; and e) a tablet packaging unit having a hopper disposed below the guide channels and the first membrane, wherein the hopper congregates the tablets from the drum unit and the base tray unit to facilitate a tablet packaging using a packaging paper.