Patent ID: 7334379

Claim:
An automated pharmaceutical product packaging machine comprising: a plurality of arrays of pharmaceutical product dispensers, each of said arrays of dispensers feeding corresponding ones of a plurality of funnels; a plurality of product package templates, each of said templates comprising a plurality of cavities corresponding to a plurality of product package cavities and wherein at least one of the plurality of product package templates is secured to an X-Y mechanical drive in order to effect the relative motion between a corresponding funnel and the individual cavities of the template in two directions of motion, the two directions of motion being generally perpendicular; and a computer controller for selectively controlling one or more of the pharmaceutical product dispensers to selectively eject a solid pharmaceutical product through the corresponding funnel into each cavity of the template when located beneath the funnel, the funnel being selectively located over each of the individual cavities of the template to thereby fill each of the template cavities in a two-dimensional array with one or more solid products.