Tablet dispenser
US5048720A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 17, 1990 |
| Grant date | Sep 17, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 17, 2010 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65D83/0418
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A hand-held tablet dispenser provides a housing having first and second vertically oriented chambers defined by bottom and side walls and a panel separating the chambers. Each of the chambers has an opening at the top. The first chamber includes a magazine that is open at the top and removably mounted for holding a stack of tablets. The tablets are yieldably urged upward to the top of the magazine. Adjacent to the top of the magazine is a discharge opening for allowing the tablets to be dispelled from the magazine as well as a hold down bar at the top of the magazine for preventing the tablets from being forced out the top. A cover is pivotally mounted on the magazine for opening and closing the top of the housing and discharge opening. This cover carries a pusher which forces the topmost tablet in the stack out of the discharge opening when the cover is pivoted to open the discharge opening. A slide is mounted in the second chamber and moves upwardly and downwardly. A bar is also mounted in the second chamber and interconnects the cover and the slide for pivoting the cover between an open and closed position as the slide moves upwardly and downwardly in the second chamber. The sli…
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