Patent ID: 7644837

Claim:
A medicine supply apparatus arranged to fill medicine bottles of variant sizes, based on prescription data, with a medicine, comprising: a charging unit which contains a plurality of tablet cases, each tablet case comprising a storage container, removable from the charging unit and having an open top which is openably closed with a lid, which contain the medicines and into which the medicines are provided from above; a case storage section in which the respective tablet cases are juxtaposed on a common plane, a top of the case storage section being openably closed; filling means disposed under the case storage section and arranged to fill medicine bottles having different dimensions with the medicine dropping from a predetermined tablet case of said plurality of tablet cases, the filling means having a medicine bottle holding means for holding the medicine bottle; and a providing means, horizontally adjacent the charging unit, having a height adjustable transfer table for transferring the medicine bottles having different dimensions to the charging unit at a predetermined height.