Pill Box Filler

[mklotz]

Asymmetric pill shapes (e.g., elliptical, capsule) cry out for a means of aligning them.

Think about providing some suitable grooves in the flat surface on which the pills are initially placed. Throw the pills on randomly, provide a little agitation and, voila, the pills are aligned with their major axis parallel to the groove.

The number of pills in each groove is not the same so a simple push with a comb won't work. I haven't gotten beyond this point yet so I'm just describing the grooved plate idea so others can run with it.

[mklotz]

Scenario: Seven straight "grooves" in a plate, each with a different number of pills aligned in the groove.

Block all the grooves at one edge of the plate and agitate until pills are touching the block.

Make a separate tool with seven teeth spaced to match the groove spacing. When this tool is inserted between the pill touching the block and its immediate neighbor, all seven pills can be swept into the waiting pill box.

Again, one of my crude sketches may help visualization.