System and method for dispensing tablets
AssigneeUMF Corporation
InventorGeorge Clarke
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Abstract
A tablet dispensing system comprises a sleeve having a first opening at a first end and a second opening at a second end, a base attached to the second end, the base including a first barrier disposed transversely to and a predetermined distance from the second opening, and a slide having second and third barriers separated by a riser, wherein the second and third barriers include aligned passages disposed therethrough. The slide is disposed on the base so that the first barrier is positioned between the second and third barriers and the slide is biased by a spring toward a first side of the sleeve so that the first barrier blocks at least one of the aligned passages, where the spring is disposed between the base and the slide.
Claims20
A tablet dispensing system, comprising
- a sleeve comprising a wall that defines an inner volume having a first longitudinal axis disposed through the inner volume, wherein the sleeve further comprises a first opening at a first end of the sleeve and a second opening at a second end of the sleeve, wherein the first and second openings are disposed on the first longitudinal axis;
- a base extending transversely from the wall at the second end to an endpoint spaced from the wall;
- a peripheral skirt extending longitudinally from the base and beyond the second end;
- a transversely extending first barrier supported by the peripheral skirt at a predetermined distance from the second end and intersecting with the first longitudinal axis of the sleeve;
- a slide having a second longitudinal axis, a transversely extending first level having a first passage disposed along the second longitudinal axis therethrough and a transversely extending second level having a second passage disposed along the second longitudinal axis therethrough, wherein the first and second levels are separated longitudinally by a riser;
- and
- a spring;
- wherein
- the slide is disposed with the first level between the first barrier and the second end and transversely biased by the spring so that the first and second longitudinal axes are aligned, wherein the spring is disposed between the peripheral skirt and the slide.
A tablet dispensing system, comprising:
- a sleeve comprising a wall that defines an inner volume having a first longitudinal axis disposed through the inner volume, wherein the sleeve further comprises a first opening at a first end of the sleeve and a second opening at a second end of the sleeve, wherein the first and second openings are disposed on the first longitudinal axis;
- a base attached to the second end and extending transversely in a first direction from the wall to an endpoint spaced from the wall, the base supporting a transversely extending first barrier intersecting the first longitudinal axis and disposed transversely to and a predetermined distance from the second opening;
- and
- a first slide having second and third barriers separated by a first riser, wherein the second and third barriers include aligned first and second passages, respectively, disposed therethrough;
- wherein
- the first slide is disposed so that the first barrier is positioned between the second and third barriers and the first slide so disposed is biased by a spring in a second direction opposite the first direction so that the first barrier blocks at least one of the aligned first and second passages, where the spring is disposed between the base and the first slide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.