Patent ID: 8733217

Claim:
A medicine dispensing device, comprising: a device body; a container containing a plurality of blister packs with medicines packaged individually therein as the blister packs are arranged one behind another, the container being attached to the device body such that the blister packs are horizontally or substantially horizontally arranged one behind another; a dispensing member movably provided in the device body, the dispensing member being moved up to the container to dispense the blister pack contained in the container; a gripping member gripping and carrying the blister pack dispensed by the dispensing member; and a cutting member cutting off a fraction from the blister pack gripped and carried by the gripping member, wherein the container includes: a dispensing opening formed in a bottom of the container at one end of the container for dispensing the blister pack; a biasing means for biasing the contained blister packs toward the one end; and an opening/closing door pivotally disposed at one end surface, wherein the opening/closing door includes a retaining portion retaining the blister pack ejected from the dispensing opening of the container, wherein the opening/closing door is positionable to an opened position for retaining the blister pack, which is dispensed from the dispensing opening by the dispensing member, to the retaining portion, and wherein the gripping member is configured to grip the blister pack retained by the retaining portion in the opened position and to carry the blister pack to the cutting member and is configured to carry the remainder of the blister pack with the fraction cut off for retention in the retaining portion.