Method and device for automatic dispatching of singular items, specially an individual pill

Abstract

In a process and a device for automatically commissioning singular individually packaged products (1), especially a single pill, from a supply station (2) with a plurality of containers, prepackaged, preselected, flat, individually packaged product packs (“blister packs”) of the same type are arranged in stacks in assigned containers in the form of essentially vertical storage shafts (3). A blister pack (4) of a singular individually packaged product (1) to be commissioned is displaced into a lateral dispensing position (E) located outside the stack, and a receiving tray (5) is positioned under it. A dispensing unit (6) assigned to the storage shafts (3) with a dispensing finger (7) is then positioned above the individually packaged product (1) to be commissioned, which is in the dispensing position (E), and the dispensing finger (7) is moved downward toward an abutment (8) to separate the singular individually packaged product from the rest of the blister pack. The separated individually packaged product falls under its own weight into a predetermined recess (9) of the receiving tray (5). The individually packaged product (1) to be commissioned is separated by pushing the individually packaged products out of the pack by means of a pushing plunger or by cutting out the individually packaged product by means of a cutting knife.

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