Patents by Inventor Darol Blake Foster

Darol Blake Foster has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Pharmaceutical singulation counting and dispensing system
    Patent number: 7571023
    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
  • Pharmaceutical singulation counting and dispensing system
    Publication number: 20080255700
    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
  • Pharmaceutical singulation counting and dispensing system
    Patent number: 7412302
    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