公开(公告)号：US11753245B1

公开(公告)日：2023-09-12

申请号：US17093831

申请日：2020-11-10

Applicant: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.

Inventor： Richard A. Schultz ,  Edward E. West ,  Scott Walter

IPC: B65G59/02 ,  B65G1/137 ,  B65G59/10 ,  B65G1/04 ,  B65G47/91 ,  B25J15/06

CPC classification number: B65G1/1373 ,  B65G1/0464 ,  B65G47/91 ,  B65G59/026 ,  B65G59/10 ,  B25J15/0683 ,  B65G2201/0235 ,  B65G2203/0233 ,  B65G2203/0283

Abstract: A pharmaceutical container holder for holding pharmaceutical containers includes a receiver having an interior sized and shaped to receive and hold the pharmaceutical containers as a stack of pharmaceutical containers. The receiver has a removal location from which the pharmaceutical containers are removed from the receiver. A lift raises the pharmaceutical containers disposed in the interior of the receiver upward to move the pharmaceutical containers toward the removal location. A lift controller operates the lift to move the pharmaceutical containers upward toward the removal location after an upper-most pharmaceutical container of the stack of pharmaceutical containers has been removed from the removal location to move a subsequent upper-most pharmaceutical container of the stack of pharmaceutical containers to the removal location.