Patent ID: 7398895

Claim:
A pharmaceutical tablet dispensing and packaging system, comprising: a) a tablet packaging unit; b) a tablet dispensing unit having two or more door cabinets and a base cabinet each defined by a front portion and a rear portion, wherein said each door cabinet rear portion is detachably engaged to the base cabinet rear portion, 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 each of the spatial shafts is formed by two opposing furrows and two adjacent spatial shafts are divided by two opposing ridges, wherein tablet cassettes each containing tablets are installed in said each cabinet to selectively release the tablets through the spatial shafts down to the tablet packaging unit disposed below the tablet dispensing unit, whereby the spatial shafts serving as downward channels allow the released tablets to fall toward the tablet packaging unit; and c) a hopper disposed beneath the dispensing unit into the tablet packaging unit to guide the released tablets down into the tablet packaging unit for tablet packaging.