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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2000
John Eric Norberg, Stilwell, KS (US);
Ronald A. Leonard, Peculiar, MO (US);
Lawrence E. Guerra, Roeland Park, KS (US);
Timothy Surgeon, Archie, MO (US);
Scriptpro LLC, Mission, KS (US);
Abstract
An automatic medicament dispensing machine ( ) that does not remain idle while medicaments are transferred to a vial and counted and that therefore dispenses medicaments at a much faster rate. The machine includes a cabinet ( ); a plurality of medicament dispensing cells ( ) arranged in the cabinet for holding and dispensing medicaments; a plurality of medicament counting units ( ) each including a vial gripper for holding a vial and a transfer mechanism for transferring medicaments from one of the medicament dispensing cells to the vial; and a transporter ( ) for transporting the counting units to the cells for filling the vials held by the counting units.