Patent ID: RE40510

Claim:
An automatic A prescription filling and packing system comprising one or more pill dispensing machines to automatically count out and dispense pills into two or more prescription bottles in accordance with prescription orders, means to print literature packs customized to said prescription orders a computer responsive to the prescription orders to provide prescription bottles filled with pharmaceuticals in accordance with the prescriptions of said prescription orders , and order consolidation means to present comprising means to print literature packs customized to said prescription orders, an assembly station to assemble the order at said order consolidation and packing station, a bottle removing mechanism that removes the at least one bottle corresponding to a particular prescription order from at least one location for subsequent packing of the at least one bottle in the shipping container, and a bagger machine that presents a shipping container for each prescription order, to insert the shipping container receiving one or more prescription bottle bottles for said each prescription order into such shipping container and to insert, separately from any prescription bottle inserted into the shipping container, receiving the literature pack for said the prescription order into such shipping container , the literature pack and each prescription bottle having an identifier identified by at least one identification system to ensure that the shipping container contains the one or more prescription bottles for the prescription order and the corresponding literature pack .