A container for storing capsules and discharging them individually, including an upwardly open capsule-holding receptacle, a cap rotatably mounted on the receptacle, an upright screw shaft with an external spiral groove fixedly mounted in the receptacle, and a hollow cylinder concentrically surrounding the screw shaft within the receptacle and coupled to the cap for rotation therewith. A thread on the inner surface of the cylinder faces and cooperates with the spiral groove to receive capsules admitted from the receptacle through an entry port in the cylinder and, as the cap is rotated, to raise the admitted capsules one by one to a central discharge port in the cap.

A single-bead dispenser including a container for holding plural beads in a spherical chamber, a wiper disposed within and rotatable about a horizontal axis of the chamber to sweep the inner wall of the chamber and transport a single contained bead upwardly from the chamber to an opening for discharge to a manually accessible platform on the container while leaving all the other contained beads in the chamber, a geared ring mounted externally of the container and manually rotatable about a vertical axis of the chamber, and a gear secured to the wiper and engaged and driven by the geared ring for effecting sweeping rotation of the wiper when the ring is turned. The wiper may be a lune of a hollow sphere close to and concentric with the chamber inner wall and may bear a dispensing scoop shaped to capture and convey a single bead to the opening.

A container for dispensing solid contents is disclosed. The container includes: a housing configured to store a plurality of solid contents having a predetermined shape; a dispensing member having a dispensing opening from which the solid contents are dispensed; and a rotating member provided on the upper side of the dispensing member to allow relative rotation with the dispensing member and configured to move at least some of the plurality of solid contents to the dispensing opening.

A dispensing product for storing a plurality of cleaning product tablets and individually dispensing them on demand that has a carousel assembly, a base, a lid, and an advancement mechanism. The carousel assembly has a plurality of depressions sized and configured to receive tablets. The base is underneath the carousel assembly. The lid is on top of the carousel and contains an aperture sized and configured such that a tablet can be withdrawn through the aperture. The advancement mechanism is connected to the carousel assembly and advances the carousel assembly rotationally.

A pill feeder accepts a quantity of pills and organizes the pills into a single file where each pill is output in a controlled orientation at a controlled rate. The pill feeder includes a rotating disk, a rotating rim, a lift gate, a separator gate, and an exit path. The rotating disk receives and moves pills in a rotation direction about a surface of the rotating disk at a first angular velocity. The rotating rim that moves pills received from the rotating disk in the same rotation direction as the rotating disk. The lift gate raises a height above the surface of the rotating rim that permits passage of a single layer of the plurality of pills. A transition to an exit chute of the pill feeder provides a plurality of slopes to control the orientation of pills transitioning from the rim to the exit chute.

A dispensing product for storing a plurality of cleaning product tablets and individually dispensing them on demand that has a carousel assembly, a base, a lid, and an advancement mechanism. The carousel assembly has a plurality of depressions sized and configured to receive tablets. The base is underneath the carousel assembly. The lid is on top of the carousel and contains an aperture sized and configured such that a tablet can be withdrawn through the aperture. The advancement mechanism is connected to the carousel assembly and advances the carousel assembly rotationally.

A pill container and dispenser includes pill dispenser cap having a rotatable carousel with a pill receiving chamber. The carousel is rotatable between a position in which the chamber receives pills from a storage component of the pill dispenser, and a position in which the pill can be dispensed from the chamber to a user. The pill dispenser includes systems for detecting the dispensing of the pill, and systems for recording and/or reporting pill dispensing events to a mobile device or remote server to allow compliance tacking.

A single-bead dispenser including a container for holding plural beads in a spherical chamber, a wiper disposed within and rotatable about a horizontal axis of the chamber to sweep the inner wall of the chamber and transport a single contained bead upwardly from the chamber to an opening for discharge to a manually accessible platform on the container while leaving all the other contained beads in the chamber, a geared ring mounted externally of the container and manually rotatable about a vertical axis of the chamber, and a gear secured to the wiper and engaged and driven by the geared ring for effecting sweeping rotation of the wiper when the ring is turned. The wiper may be a lune of a hollow sphere close to and concentric with the chamber inner wall and may bear a dispensing scoop shaped to capture and convey a single bead to the opening.

Storage containers for a storage and dispensing station for a blister packaging machine include a separating device having dispensing channels for receiving at least one small piece good and above each dispensing channel a recess with a wall, which recess is adapted to a small piece good to be separated. A retaining device includes a retaining portion, the retaining portion being retained above a dispensing opening in the storage container, wherein the retaining portion is elastically deformable such that a small piece good arranged above a dispensing channel aligned with the dispensing opening is pressed against the wall of the corresponding recess and prevented from entering the dispensing channel aligned with the dispensing opening. Methods for separating small piece goods in a storage container are also provided.

A pill dispenser includes a dispenser body, a pill dispensing cover, and a pill outlet cover. The dispenser body is hollow. A fixed cylinder is disposed at a center of the dispenser body. Partition plates are connected between the fixed cylinder and the dispenser body to define pill cavities. The partition plates are disposed in a circumferential array. At least one end of each of the partition plates extends out of the dispenser body. Clamping grooves are defined in the pill dispensing cover. A periphery of each of the partition plates is clamped in a corresponding one of the clamping grooves, so the pill dispensing cover is fixed to the dispenser body. The pill dispensing cover includes pill dispensing openings one-to-one corresponding to the pill cavities. When the pill dispensing cover is fixed to the dispenser body, each of the partition plates abuts against the pill dispensing cover.