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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7404500 | Pill dispensing device A pill dispensing cap for a bottle has an inner sleeve with a divider panel and a first base panel rotatable within an outer sleeve having a second base panel. First and second window openings are defined in the first and second base panels. A plate moveable across ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7398895 | Pharmaceutical tablet dispensing and packaging system A pharmaceutical tablet dispensing and packaging system comprising a tablet packaging unit and a tablet dispensing unit having door cabinets and a base cabinet with each door cabinet rear portion detachably engaged to the base cabinet rear portion. Each cabinet rear... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7395946 | Tablet cassette A tablet cassette in which a tablet is not discharged during a mounting or dismounting operation of the tablet cassette. The tablet cassette (1) incorporates a rotor (6) having pocket portions (7) for holding tablets (T). When the tablet cassett... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7392111 | Rotary desiccant feeder method and apparatus A method and apparatus for efficient dispensing of desiccant canisters into containers is disclosed. The apparatus includes a microprocessor that monitors a plurality of sensors, and applies control signals to a servomotor that controls a rotary disc that transports... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7360668 | Tablet packing apparatus A tablet packing apparatus having a tablet feeding section and storage shelves for storing tablet vessels in which tablets fed from the tablet feeding section are packed. The storage shelves include a plurality of container chambers in which the tablet vessels which... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7334699 | Filler assembly for medication dispenser A filler assembly capable of filling unit-of-use medication containers or dispensers. In an embodiment, the filler assembly includes a generally trough-shaped top with a generally horizontal bottom including apertures surrounded by multiple sidewalls. Further, a bod... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7243817 | Solid objects dispensers A tablet dispenser for dispensing individual solid objects comprising a lower housing, an upper housing with an elastomeric cover that covers at least a portion of a trigger mechanism, a elastomeric cover of at least a portion of the lower housing and a dispenser me... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7210598 | Authomated pill-dispensing apparatus An under-counter portable automatic pill-dispensing apparatus includes a double array of storage units for storing pills in bulk, a retriever between the two arrays for retrieving selected storage units, and a pill-dispensing module for unloading pills into a vial. ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7207330 | Delivery system There is described a medicament delivery device which comprises a medicament reservoir, a medicament delivery passage and a metering member adapted to transfer a measured dose of medicament from the medicament reservoir to the delivery passage characterized in that ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7175046 | Merchandise output device of a vending machine A merchandise output device of a vending machine comprises a machine body; a groove body in the machine body; a rotary disk and a rotary disk and a guide plate installed above the rotary disk and being an approximate right-angled triangular plate. The guide plate is... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7147130 | Single dose pill dispensing system A single pill dispensing system for a bottle/vial of the type for dispensing a medication pill, where the bottle/vial has a circular body and receives a circular cap. To facilitate the dispensing of a single pill, an insert, slidably received in the circular body an... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7100797 | One dose at-a-time pill dispenser and container having same A device for dispensing pills one at a time or one dose at a time includes a unit chamber fittable within/integral with the rim of a bottle. The unit chamber includes a plurality of radial projections which project inwardly to define discrete pill holding areas. The... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6948635 | Medicine case and medicine packing apparatus provided with this medicine case The present invention intends to let the medicine fall regularly, by eliminating the static electricity charged on the medicine in the medicine case. A medicine case comprising a medicine case portion for containing medicine in the upper part and a mechanism unit in... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6908010 | Driven rotary body, sheet material conveying apparatus, and recording apparatus The present invention relates to a driven rotary body rotating in pressure contact with and driven by a conveyance rotary body. The driven rotary body includes a shaft portion molded from a resin as an integral body, a recess positioned around a center in a longitud... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6896150 | Securing system for a vending machine island In a vending machine island having a standard supporting a mounting plate at an elevated position, a securing post which extends to a level of the top of the tallest vender. A lid locked to the vender is provided with engaging means which engages a bracket affixed t... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6887431 | Bead dispensing system A bead dispensing system is provided for delivering small amounts of substances onto substrates. The system can include, for example, a movable support structure having an array of spaced-apart projections depending from its lower side. An attraction source, such as... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6849457 | Bead dispenser and bead dispenser system for immunoassay analysis A bead dispenser device useful for supplying, one at a time, beads for heterogenous immunoassay, including an inner chamber having a return spring integrally formed to the inner chamber. The bead device also includes a plunger housed within a plunger chamber. The pl... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6824011 | Pellet dispenser and method A pellet dispensing device includes a rotatable cylinder having a plurality of chambers and a trigger mechanism for dispensing pellets therefrom, one at a time. The device further includes a clasp for attachment to the belt or otherwise of a wearer where it is readi... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6776108 | Seed planter apparatus and method A planter apparatus includes a seed meter including a housing assembly with a cover releasably connected to a shell. The housing assembly includes at least one opening formed therein adjacent a seed discharge area to promote the release of seeds from a disc rotatabl... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6763971 | Candy dispenser A candy dispenser transfers candy packaged in a loading container through a valve into a dispensation magazine when the dispenser is in a first orientation. The candies can subsequently be dispensed from the magazine when the dispenser is inverted. A manually-operat... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6742465 | Seed planter apparatus and method A planter apparatus includes a seed meter including a housing assembly with a cover releasably connected to a shell. The housing assembly includes at least one opening formed therein adjacent a seed discharge area to promote the release of seeds from a disc rotatabl... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6739272 | Seed planter apparatus and method A planter apparatus includes a seed meter including a housing assembly with a cover releasably connected to a shell. The housing assembly includes at least one opening formed therein adjacent a seed discharge area to promote the release of seeds from a disc rotatabl... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6702149 | Treat dispenser A conveniently sized and reusable animal treat dispenser (treat(s) will herein after be referred to as positive reinforcement(s)) for use in providing positive reinforcements, in an immediate and non-distracting manner, to reward and reinforce specific be... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6644504 | Tablet packing apparatus The present invention provides a tablet packing apparatus which is possible to feed specially administrative tablets separately from general tablets. Specially administrative tablets are contained in a feeder vessel. A tablet reserving member 200 is dispo... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6571987 | Tool for arranging a plurality of rolling columns A tool is designed to arrange a plurality of rolling columns and is formed of a housing, a pushing member, and a bottom board. The housing is provided with an interior for housing a plurality of rolling columns, and in the bottom thereof with a plurality ... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6488593 | Game apparatus having a spherical object drop mechanism A spherical object drop mechanism for a game apparatus has a mechanism allowing to drop spherical objects one by one on the desired position on the ground. The spherical object drop mechanism includes a ball guide to store a plurality of spherical objects... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6405893 | Medicine supply apparatus There is disclosed a medicine supply apparatus which can improve the efficiency of a dispensing operation. The medicine supply apparatus comprises a plurality of tablet cases 3 stored in a main body case storage part, each tablet case including a containe... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6394308 | Tablet feeder A tablet feeder of the type in which tablets in a storage case are discharged by rotating a rotor. The tablet feeder can prevent tablets, which are about to be discharged by slight rotation of the rotor, from being inadvertently discharged when the storag... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6374759 | Seed planter apparatus and method A planter apparatus includes a seed meter including a housing assembly with a cover releasably connected to a shell. The housing assembly includes at least one opening formed therein adjacent a seed discharge area to promote the release of seeds from a di... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6325005 | Seed planter apparatus and method A planter apparatus includes a seed meter including a housing assembly with a cover releasably connected to a shell. The housing assembly includes at least one opening formed therein adjacent a seed discharge area to promote the release of seeds from a di... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6189731 | Device for holding and dispensing cotton swabs A device for holding and dispensing cotton swabs or the like, wherein the device includes a housing for holding the cotton swabs and the housing has at least two chambers extending parallel one behind the other for holding with play a plurality of cotton ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6131765 | Device for storing and dispensing solid-form medication A method and apparatus for storing and dispensing solid-form medication ("pills") is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment a housing is provided wherein a hopper for storing pills is contained. A slide drawer is contained within the housing just below the ... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6109193 | Seed planter apparatus and method A planter apparatus includes a seed meter including a housing assembly with a cover releasably connected to a shell. The housing assembly includes at least one opening formed therein adjacent a seed discharge area to promote the release of seeds from a di... | 08/29/2000 |
| 5885529 | Automated immunoassay analyzer An improved automated immunoassay analyzer including a high throughput automated immunoassay system which can perform high volume testing on a broad range of analytes while selecting from among a diverse set of immunoassays for any given sample. The immun... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5865342 | Medication filling apparatus A medication filling apparatus is equipped with a tablet case for holding medications and a dispensing drum which lets the medications fall through an outlet from the tablet case as it rotates, thereby dispensing the medications; it is further equipped wi... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5829632 | Flexible band pharmaceutical product feeder gate assembly A gate assembly, for a dedicated feeder sub-system in a pharmaceutical product packaging system, includes a flexible gating structure. Product feed tubes leading from a product bin to a packaging web loading station carry slots in which flexible bands ope... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5816441 | Tablet dispenser with child-resistant locking feature A dispenser for dispensing tablets one at a time which includes a feature which prevents children from dispensing tablets. The dispenser has a reservoir, a chamber below the reservoir in which the tablets are arranged in a single layer and a dispensing pa... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5773296 | Bead dispenser and bead dispenser system for immunoassay analysis A bead dispenser device, and a system comprising a plurality of same, useful for supplying, one at a time, beads for heterogenous immunoassay, including a track capable of storing and feeding a plurality of substantially spherical beads by effect of gravi... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5758798 | Parts orientor and method An improved machine and method for properly orienting two or more sets of parts having different lengths. An escapement mechanism and a length adjusting rod are employed in conjunction with a reciprocating shuttle block. The shuttle block houses a single ... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5667097 | Multiple pill dispensing unit An apparatus for housing multiple shapes and sizes of pills and simultaneously dispensing a single pill of each type, the apparatus comprising a vertically oriented support structure with an upper, middle and lower housing portions, each portion including... | 09/16/1997 |
