Patent ID: 8550319

Claim:
A multi-tablet cutting device comprises; a removable tablet holding tray, the tablet holding tray having a plurality of tablet nests, each nest having two or more levels of beds sized to hold tablets of different sizes or shapes; a housing structure having at least one opening to receive the removable tablet holding tray; and a plurality of vertically movable cutting blades mounted on a support structure on an inside of the housing above the tablet holding tray, wherein the plurality of cutting blades are aligned above the tablet nests and upon a downwardly directed vertical movement the plurality of blades pass through first slots in the nests aligned with the cutting blades passing through a geometric center of the nests cutting the tablets held in the nest in halves and wherein nests at the upper level of beds provide a round opening in the geometric center to hold large circular tablets and a pair of oblong portions extending from the round opening to hold oblong-shaped tablets at the same upper level and wherein the first slots extend through the geometric centers of the net, transversely across the oblong portions bisecting the nest.