Patent ID: 7185476

Claim:
A method of filling solid pharmaceutical product packaging comprising the steps of: providing a product package template having a plurality of cavities arranged in an array having rows and columns; providing a product package having a plurality of cavities, wherein said cavities of said product package are capable of alignment with said cavities of said product package template; automatically selectively dispensing one or more solid pharmaceutical products from a plurality of different drug sources into a common funnel automatically effecting relative motion in at least two directions of motion between the common funnel and said plurality of product package template cavities to selectively locate the common funnel over individual ones of the cavities in order to place one or more solid pharmaceutical products from the plurality of different drug sources into each of said plurality of template cavities, wherein the two directions of motion are generally perpendicular; and thereafter automatically aligning said cavities of said product package template with said cavities of said product package; and transferring the solid pharmaceuticals located in the plurality of product package template cavities into corresponding cavities of said product package.