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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 9710739 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017

Filed:

May. 20, 2016

Paper feed system and method

Applicant:

Express Scripts, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);

Inventor:

Robert E. Hoffman, Linden, IN (US);

Assignee:

Express Scripts, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);

Attorney:

Husch Blackwell LLP

Primary Examiner:

Douglas Tran

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 1/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2011.01); G07F 11/00 (2006.01); B65H 31/30 (2006.01); B65H 39/02 (2006.01); B65H 43/06 (2006.01); B65H 45/18 (2006.01); B65H 3/12 (2006.01); B65H 3/48 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01); G06K 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/404 (2013.01); B65H 3/126 (2013.01); B65H 3/48 (2013.01); B65H 31/3018 (2013.01); B65H 39/02 (2013.01); B65H 43/06 (2013.01); B65H 45/18 (2013.01); G06F 19/3462 (2013.01); G06K 15/021 (2013.01); G06K 15/16 (2013.01); G06K 15/408 (2013.01); G07F 11/00 (2013.01); B65H 2511/30 (2013.01); B65H 2513/42 (2013.01);
Abstract

A pharmaceutical filling system for a high volume pharmacy is described. The system can include a paper feed device and method. The system may include a paper collator with at one selectively openable shelf. A control device may monitor the capacity of the selectively openable shelf, and instruct a printer to hold printing additional print jobs. The selectively openable shelf may then be opened to allow the printed literature resting thereon to fall to a lower shelf, and the printer can then be restarted. Sheets of printed literature may be drawn from the paper collator, collected with any other sheets of printed literature associated with a prescription order, and mated with the prescription order for shipment.

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