Patent ID: 7059098

Claim:
An automatic medication dispensing and packaging system, comprising: a) a medication dispensing unit having first, second base and door cabinets, wherein the cabinets are each defined by a front portion and a rear portion, wherein the door cabinet rear portion is correspondingly, detachably engaged to the base cabinet rear portion, wherein the base cabinets are distanced from each other to form a space that allows therein a manual management of the dispensing unit, wherein the rear portion of said each cabinet is vertically wrinkled to form ridges and furrows so that when the door cabinets are attached to the base cabinet a plurality of spatial shafts are formed by the furrows and ridges of the cabinet rear portions, wherein tablet cassettes each containing tablets are installed in said each cabinet to selectively release the tablets through the spatial shafts, wherein the spatial shafts serving as downward channels guide down the released tablets; b) a hopper beneath the dispensing unit to guide down the tablets released via the spatial shafts from the cassettes; and c) a medication packaging unit disposed below the dispensing unit while housing therein the hopper, wherein the tablets released via the hopper from the dispensing unit are packaged into a series of tablet containing paper bags.