Apparatus for releasing tablets from a blister pack
AssigneeGruenenthal GmbH
InventorsNicholas Andrew Drought, Stephen Blatcher, Ian Daines, Mark Rowbotham
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Abstract
Apparatus for releasing tablets from a blister pack containing a plurality of tablets, each held in a respective blister, the apparatus comprising receiving means for receiving a blister pack, the receiving means having a lid moveable between an open and a closed position, the apparatus further comprising an abutment member mounted on the lid, the arrangement being such that movement of the lid from the open to the closed position, in use, causes the abutment member to engage, and release a tablet from, a blister in registry with the abutment member.
Claims11
Apparatus for releasing tablets from a blister pack containing a plurality of tablets, each held in a respective blister, the apparatus comprising receiving means for receiving a blister pack, the receiving means having a lid moveable between an open and closed position, the apparatus further comprising an abutment member mounted on the lid, the arrangement being such that movement in the lid from the open to the closed position, in use, causes the abutment member to engage, and release a tablet from, a blister in registry with the abutment member.
Apparatus for releasing tablets from a blister pack having two rows of blisters each containing a respective tablet, the apparatus comprising a tray, the floor of which has aperture means in registry, in use, with the two rows of blisters for allowing released tablets to pass through the tray floor, the apparatus further comprising a peg mounted on a lid of the tray for engaging a blister to release the tablet therefrom, the peg being slideable along a key way in the lid to enable the peg to be moved into registry with any selected one of the blisters of a pack in the tray, wherein the key way has two main runs in registry with the aperture means and an interconnecting run which interconnects the two main runs to allow the peg to be transferred from one to the other of the main runs, and which is not in registry with the aperture means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.