A storage system for storing material such as sample tube caps comprises a drawer with a reservoir, the drawer being movable between a first position and a second position. A storage container is arranged below the reservoir of the drawer when the drawer is arranged in the first position. A transport device is configured to retrieve material from the storage container and to transport the material out of the storage container. Therein, the reservoir of the drawer comprises a bottom with at least one closable opening.

A flow-limiting device that controls the distribution of unitary products from a container for holding said unitary products includes at least one dispensing opening, a body made of a polymeric material with an entry side, a dispensing side and a peripheral side extending in an axial direction of the body. The peripheral side has a lower and an upper axial end, the entry side has at least in part, a concave shape when viewed onto the entry side with at least one guiding surface. The dispensing side has at least in part, a concave shape when viewed onto the dispensing side. The dispensing opening is at an axial position between and spaced from the axial positions of the lower and upper axial end, wherein the entry side and/or the dispensing side include a plurality of elevated regions, which are arranged to define the concave shape.

A cap assembly for a pill bottle to allow dispensing only one or two pills at a time. The cap assembly has an inner cap with an opening and an outer cap with a similarly shaped and sized opening and allows for a pill to be dispensed when both openings are aligned. The inner cap has a mechanism for engaging the bottle and the outer cap has a mechanism for engaging the inner cap. The cap assembly reduces the dispensing area for a pill and prevents spillage. The invention may also have a third cap to provide a child-resistance cap assembly. Alternately, the cap assembly may comprise a removable insert with a triangular opening that fits into a mouth of the pill bottle.

Methods of dispensing small piece goods are provided. The method includes storing one or more small piece goods in a storage container for a storage and dispensing station, reducing, by the plurality of contact reducing members, a contact area between the separating device base area and the one or more small piece goods within the storage container, rotating the separating device within the housing to situate a first channel above the dispensing opening, the first channel containing a first small piece good and dispensing the first small piece good through the dispensing opening Methods of using a system for storage and dispensing of drug portions are also provided.

Wet-sheet packaging eliminates troubles a user encounters in spreading out a wet sheet after the wet sheet is taken out of the packaging, thereby improving convenience in using the wet sheet. A layered body of folded wet sheets is accommodated in an inner container inside an outer bag that is provided with an outer take-out opening at its surface. The outer take-out opening is freely opened and closed by a closure sheet. The layered body allows a user to grasp an edge of the upper surface of the topmost wet sheet and to spread out the wet sheet. The layered body is made by stacking multiple wet sheets, each of which is folded into a zigzag shape, forming a band-shaped folded body. The edge is disposed at the middle part of the folded body in the width direction facing the lengthwise direction.

A pill box which can be loaded by user with pills and which can dispense a particular desired pill or pills when the user presses or repeatedly presses a button of the pill box. The pill box includes a case defining a picking opening, a rotating member rotatably mounted in the case, and a thumb-operated pressing structure. The rotating member includes a ratchet wheel and a plurality of pill grips each containing a pill or pills. The pressing structure includes a sliding member slidably mounted to the case and a pawl abutting the ratchet wheel. The sliding member is slidable relative to the case and the pawl moves the ratchet wheel one click per thumbpress to rotate the ratchet wheel to align one of the plurality of pill grips with the picking opening for taking out the pill or pills.

The medication container includes a receptacle that has an inner space for holding medications. The cap assembly is coupled with the receptacle for retaining the medications in the inner space. The cap assembly includes at least one passage that can be selectively opened and closed and includes at least one medication sensor that is configured to detect any medications travelling through the passage and out of the receptacle in a contactless manner. A microprocessor is in electrical communication with the at least one medication sensor and with a memory. The microprocessor is configured to record data to the memory in response to the at least one medication sensor detecting a medication travelling through the passage. A wireless module is in electrical communication with the microprocessor for uploading the data to an external device.

A dispenser or dispensing system. The dispenser can be a screw conveyor pill dispenser, tumbler pill dispenser, push-to-operate pill cap dispenser, twist-to-operate pill cap dispenser, or push-to-operate pill cap dispenser. The pill dispenser may include a pill dispenser control system that can interact with a personal device, such as a smart phone. The pill dispenser control system can implement communication with a personal device, pill identification, user identification and security, scheduling functions, and notifications. The pill dispenser can dispense pills manually, semi-automatically, or automatically.

Storage containers for small piece goods are provided, the storage containers including a housing having a dispensing opening and a separating device disposed in the housing. The separating device includes contact reducing members opposing the dispensing opening, the contact reducing members configured to reduce a contact area between the separating device and small piece goods within the storage container. Systems and methods of using a system for storage and dispensing of small piece goods are also provided.

Embodiments are directed to a spherically shaped bottle. The spherically shaped bottle may be configured to hold and dispense ingestible pills, including tablets, capsules, or other ingestible products. The spherically shaped bottle may include a container body that holds the ingestible pills within an internal volume. A cap may be pivotally coupled with the container body and configured to cover the internal volume. The cap may define a spherical outer surface of the container with the container body when closed. The spherically shaped bottle may include a neck above the internal volume configured to dispense ingestible pills when the spherically shaped bottle is tilted.