Pharmaceutical container holder

A pharmaceutical container holder for holding difficult to stack irregular pharmaceutical containers for a pharmaceutical order processor;

• the holder comprising:
• a receiver having opposite side walls defining an elongate interior sized and shaped to receive the irregular pharmaceutical containers as a stack of pharmaceutical containers, the opposite side walls arranged to support and hold the irregular pharmaceutical containers in the stack, the receiver having an upper removal location from which the irregular pharmaceutical containers are removed from the receiver, the interior having an open top aligned with the upper removal location, the open top facing upward and sized, shaped, and arranged to permit the irregular pharmaceutical containers to move upward through the open top;
• a lift configured to raise the irregular pharmaceutical containers disposed in the interior of the receiver upward to move the irregular pharmaceutical containers toward the removal location, the interior of the receiver and the lift being in a fixed position relative to one another;
• and
• a lift controller configured to operate the lift to move the irregular pharmaceutical containers upward toward the removal location after an upper-most irregular pharmaceutical container of the stack of pharmaceutical containers has been removed from the removal location to move a subsequent upper-most irregular pharmaceutical container of the stack of pharmaceutical containers to the removal location.