Abstract: An apparatus for counting pharmaceutical units is provided having a supporting deck assembly, a hopper, a cylindrical chamber and a transport ring positioned between the hopper and the cylindrical chamber, wherein the hopper has a tilted floor, which can be shaken or vibrated to discharge the units on to a transport ring, and the transport ring is sloped downward from its inner to outer perimeter, which brings the units into contact with the undulating surface of the walls of the cylindrical chamber to promote singulation prior to counting.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 12, 2007
Date of Patent:
August 4, 2009
Assignee:
JM Smith Corporation
Inventors:
Barton Carter Mitchell, Jerriel Keith Greene, Darol Blake Foster, Michael Wayne Davis
Abstract: An apparatus for counting pharmaceutical units is provided having a supporting deck assembly, a hopper, a cylindrical chamber and a transport ring positioned between the hopper and the cylindrical chamber, wherein the hopper has a tilted floor, which can be shaken or vibrated to discharge the units on to a transport ring, and the transport ring is sloped downward from its inner to outer perimeter, which brings the units into contact with the undulating surface of the walls of the cylindrical chamber to promote singulation prior to counting.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 12, 2007
Publication date:
October 16, 2008
Applicant:
JM Smith Corporation
Inventors:
Barton Carter Mitchell, Jerriel Keith Greene, Darol Blake Foster, Michael Wayne Davis
Abstract: The present invention relates to an automated system for pharmaceutical singulation, counting and dispensing, whereby a bulk of stored pharmaceutical units are singulated into a single file line for counting and dispensing. With reference to the drawings, the pharmaceutical singulation, counting and dispensing system comprises generally, a deck assembly (A), a cylindrical chamber (B), a rotatable transport ring (C), a plurality of adjustable fingers (D), an adjustable reciprocating member (E), an adjustable rotatable member (F), a counting system (G), a hopper (H), and a control system (I).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 8, 2005
Date of Patent:
August 12, 2008
Assignee:
JM Smith Corporation
Inventors:
William Robert Cobb, Michael Wayne Davis, Howitt Spurling Smith, Justin Daniel Wyatt, Warren Daniel Leonard, Darol Blake Foster, Kevin Franklin Spicer, Barton Carter Mitchell