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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1996
William K Holmes, San Diego, CA (US);
Laird Broadfield, San Diego, CA (US);
Pyxis Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A drawer operating system for controlling a plurality of elongated drawers having a sliding direction, each drawer terminated by a front end and a rear end and partitioned by walls into a plurality of bins consecutive with one another along the sliding direction for holding various dispensable items, the drawers housed in an array in a cabinet, each drawer arranged to move independently between a closed position and graduated, progressively opened positions to allow access to one or more bins and the contents stored therein, the system for each drawer including a monitor for tracking the length of opening of the drawer on its immediately preceding excursion, a drive train responsive to the monitor for controlling the drawer from a fully closed and locked position to an open position exposing an item-filled bin flexible, non-stretchable first device for interconnecting the drawer and the drive train to control the increment of bin exposed in the drawer, and the second control device, including a keyboard for inputting coded information concerning the particular item needed and information as to the party entering the information for actuating the drive train to authorize movement of the drawer from a closed position slidingly to an open position at least one bin-length beyond the bin exposed on the immediately preceding excursion.