US 11,738,899 B2
Systems and methods for capping
Jonathan W. Joplin, Chesterfield, MO (US)
Assigned to Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed by Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed on Nov. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/985,325.
Application 17/985,325 is a continuation of application No. 17/021,043, filed on Sep. 15, 2020, granted, now 11,511,899.
Application 17/021,043 is a continuation of application No. 14/706,150, filed on May 7, 2015, granted, now 10,800,565, issued on Oct. 13, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/989,875, filed on May 7, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2023/0069879 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. B65B 7/28 (2006.01); B65B 57/00 (2006.01); B67B 3/20 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 57/00 (2013.01) [B65B 7/2835 (2013.01); B67B 3/2073 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An order filling system comprising:
an order processing device configured to electronically receive from a prescriber device an order for countable items, wherein the order processing device matches the order with a patient preference type of a content securing apparatus used to secure contents in a container with the patient preference type being loaded from a member data record stored electronically in a database and loads the patient preference type into an electronic order record, and the order filling system is configured to apply different types of content securing apparatus to the container using different application forces that correspond to the different types of content securing apparatus;
a dispensing device operatively coupled to the order processing device, the dispensing device to fill the container with the items in the electronic order record;
a preference controller operably connected to the order processing device to select one of a first content securing apparatus or a second content securing apparatus based on the patient preference type in the order record, wherein the first content securing apparatus is a first type of content securing apparatus and the second content securing apparatus is a different, second type of content securing apparatus, and the first type of content securing apparatus corresponds to a first application force and the second type of content securing apparatus corresponds to a different, second application force;
a first content securing device operably connected to the preference controller to apply the first content securing apparatus to the container containing the items from the dispensing device with the first content securing apparatus is selected, wherein the first content securing device is configured to sense a first applied torque to the content securing apparatus when applying the first content securing apparatus to the container to verify application of the first application force; and
a second content securing device operably connected to the preference controller to apply the second content securing apparatus to the container containing the items from the dispensing device when the second content securing apparatus is selected alternatively from the first content securing device based on instruction from the preference controller, wherein the second content securing device is configured to sense a second applied torque to the second content securing apparatus when applying the second content securing apparatus to the container to verify application of the second application force.