Patent ID: 7198173

Claim:
A holding device for pharmaceutical blisters comprising: an upper part and a lower part between which a pharmaceutical blister can be disposed, where, conforming to a pattern of dragées contained therein, upper ejection openings are disposed in the upper part and lower ejection openings are disposed in the lower part; and an ejection device which can execute a linear movement and/or a rotary movement in relation to the upper part, the ejection device having an ejection ram which optionally can be guided into a certain upper ejection opening to eject a corresponding dragée through the corresponding lower ejection opening, the ejection device having a contact element which in an intended ejection position of the ejection ram short-circuits a pair of contact points with a contact field to detect the intended ejection position, the contact field for each possible ejection position short-circuiting only one pair of the contact points corresponding to the intended ejection position by the contact field, the ejection device having a shaft which engages through an upper part guide slot disposed in the upper part on which a sliding plate is fixed on a side of the upper part opposite to the lower part so that it cannot be displaced in an axial direction of the shaft, and which has the contact element fixed on another side facing the lower part so that it cannot be displaced in the axial direction of the shaft, wherein between the upper part and the contact element a contact element energy storage device is operable to draw the shaft in the direction of the lower part, and the ejection device having a cam which, during actuation of the ejection ram of the ejection device into the ejection position, moves the contact element against the force of the contact element energy storage device in the direction of the upper part so that the contact field of the contact element abuts the pair of contact points corresponding to the intended ejection position of a removal point, and in which in the position of the ejection device moved out of the ejection position releases the shaft so that the contact element energy storage device moves the shaft and thus the contact element connected thereto so that the contact field of the contact element is separated from the pair of contact points, corresponding to the intended ejection position.