Patent ID: 8365950

Claim:
A medicine dispensing device comprising: a device body; a plurality of shelf members juxtaposed in a vertical direction in the device body, each of the shelf members including one or more cassettes, each of the cassettes storing medicines in an aligned state; a medicine conveyance member disposed at a front side of the device body, the medicine conveyance member including a medicine holding member that includes a clamping member configured to clamp the medicine; and a tray disposed at a front lower side of the device body, wherein the cassette includes a pusher that compresses the stored medicines toward the front side of the device body, and a constant load spring that exerts a constant load on the medicines stored in the cassette via the pusher, wherein each of the shelf members is configured to be drawn out to the front side of the device body together with the cassettes thereof, wherein at least one of the shelf members is configured to be rotatable so that one end portion of the shelf member drawn out to the front side of the device body together with the cassettes thereof is obliquely directed toward a lower side of the device body, wherein the medicine conveyance member is configured to move the medicine holding member horizontally and vertically in the front side of the device body so that the medicine conveyance member can be positioned adjacent any of the one or more cassettes, wherein the medicine conveyance member is configured to convey the medicines stored in the cassettes one by one from the one or more cassettes to the tray by means of the medicine holding member, wherein the device body includes a slide member that supports the shelf member to be slidable along a horizontal direction and that causes the shelf member to be rotatable in a state of the shelf member drawn out from the device body; and a guide portion that guides the shelf member when the shelf member is rotated, wherein the slide member includes a pivot that rotatably supports the shelf member and is located at the front side of the device body, and the shelf member is rotatable around the pivot at the front side of the device body in the state of the shelf member drawn out from the device body, wherein the shelf member includes a guide roller, and wherein the guide portion of the device body is formed to include a first guide surface whereon the guide roller rolls to thereby guide the shelf member slidably along in a horizontal state, and a circularly arcuate second guide surface whereon the guide roller rolls to thereby guide the shelf member to be in a tilted state when the shelf member is rotated in the state of the shelf member drawn out from device body.