A medicament storage and dispensing system (10) operable for storing and
dispensing products (12) such as pre-packaged pharmaceutical boxes and/or
bottles and broadly includes a cabinet (14); a plurality of product
shelves (16) mounted within the cabinet; an infeed conveyor (18) for
transporting products into the cabinet; an outfeed conveyor (20) for
transporting products out of the cabinet; a transporter (22) moveable
within the cabinet for transporting products between the shelves and the
infeed and outfeed conveyors; and a control system (24) for controlling
operation of the conveyors and the transporter in response to
prescriptions received from a host computer (26). The shelves having a
plurality of vertical walls (56) upon which the products rest and between
which tines (130) of the transporter slide in order to retrieve products
from and place products upon the shelves.