Patent ID: 7293672

Claim:
A medicine supply apparatus comprising a plurality of tablet cases equipped in a case accommodating portion of a main body thereof, each of the tablet cases having medicines accommodated therein, chutes through which medicines discharged from the tablet cases are passed, a hopper equipped so as to face the lower portions of the chutes, and a charging apparatus for charging a medicine accommodating container with medicines caught by the hopper, characterized in that a plurality of drawers are arranged in the horizontal and vertical directions in the case accommodating portion so as to be freely drawn out independently of one another in each of the horizontal and vertical directions, and the tablet cases are detachably mounted on the drawers, each of said drawers having a centrally located vertically extending passage therein, said tablet cases being mounted on both sides of the respective passages, each of said passages being sized and positioned to mutually communicate with one another when the drawers are received in the case accommodating portion to form a continuous passage in the vertical direction.