Patent ID: 8733586

Claim:
A pharmaceutical sorting device for dispensing a plurality of pharmaceuticals, comprising: a plurality of receptacles for receiving respective pharmaceuticals, arranged side by side along a longitudinal direction and each having an opening for the pharmaceutical to pass through; conveyor unit for conveying the pharmaceuticals into the respective receptacles through the openings; and first adjusting unit changing a width of the openings in accordance with a size of the pharmaceuticals, the first adjusting unit including a rail extending in the longitudinal direction, a plurality of partitions partitioning two adjacent receptacles and slidable along the rail, and a cylindrical width adjusting drum arranged along the rail and rotatable around an axis extending in the longitudinal direction, the width adjusting drum having a plurality of guide grooves formed side by side at equal intervals in the longitudinal direction such as to extend non-parallel to one another along an outer circumferential direction, so as to guide a sliding movement of the plurality of partitions, wherein the width of the respective openings is changed by a sliding movement in the longitudinal direction along the rail of the plurality of partitions as guided by the respective guide grooves when the width adjusting drum rotates, and wherein the respective openings become plugged by the pharmaceuticals when the pharmaceuticals are conveyed into the respective receptacles.