KR100407469B1 - Sharing and packing device of medicine - Google Patents

Abstract

The tablet packaging apparatus 1 according to the present invention can automatically discharge different tablets 10 embedded in a plurality of tablet cassettes 2, and the plurality of tablet interior parts 3a at equal intervals at equal intervals. At the same time, the tablet 10 may be manually dispensed and discharged to the tablet interior part 3a of the tablet transfer input plate 3 having the opening and closing plate 3b for opening and closing the lower side of the tablet interior part 3a. , The tablet 10 in the tablet cassette 2 and the tablet feeder 3 is discharged downward to be packaged in the wrapping paper (4), the tablet interior of the tablet feeder 3 (3a) ) And the tablet 10 in the tablet cassette 2 are discharged by the power of the motors 2a and 9 to be collected in the packaging hopper 6a through the connecting hopper 6, and the packaging hopper 6a. A plurality of tablets (10) is injected into the lower outlet of the packaging hopper (6a) is packaged.

Therefore, the present invention by dispensing the tablet manually and automatically by automatic packaging once and improve the input passage of the tablet to a structure that can be cleaned, the number of tablet cassette can be efficiently reduced, thereby reducing the volume of the whole device easily It can be used effectively in a pharmacy near a hospital that specializes in specific medical treatment, and can easily clean the passage through which tablets are injected.

Description

Tablet Packaging Device {SHARING AND PACKING DEVICE OF MEDICINE}

The present invention relates to a tablet packaging apparatus that can be used both automatic and manual, and more particularly, by manually dispensing tablets and automatically dispensing them into tablet cassettes to package once, thereby effectively reducing the number of tablet cassettes. It can easily reduce the volume of the whole device, can be used effectively in pharmacies or small pharmacies near the hospital specializing in specific medical care, easy to clean after visually checking the passage through the tablet It relates to a tablet packaging apparatus.

In general, there are various types of tablets, it is difficult to cure a disease with a single drug to provide a mixture of a number of drugs to the patient, due to the development of technology many drugs will be developed and provided to the patient in the future.

Thus, conventionally, there is a semi-automatic packaging device for automatically dispensing tablets by manual dispensing of tablets, as well as an automatic packaging device for dispensing tablets automatically by dispensing tablets contained in a plurality of tablet cassettes.

Here, the semi-automatic packaging device is a pharmacist distributing the medicine directly to the tablet after dispensing the tablets to distribute the tablets respectively distributed, the automatic packaging device is arranged to install a plurality of tablet cassettes each containing a variety of tablets Afterwards, each tablet cassette is operated by a controller (computer) to package a plurality of tablets each.

However, the conventional automatic packaging device is manufactured to install a large number of tablet cassettes in the early stage because the tablet cassette containing the tablets must be reinstalled when a new tablet is developed due to the development of technology. In addition, when the installation space of the tablet cassette is no longer large, the device itself is replaced, and accordingly, there is a disadvantage that the utility value decreases at a fast time because it cannot comply with the number of new drugs rapidly developed in the rapidly changing era.

Moreover, the conventional automatic packaging device has a disadvantage in that it is very difficult to pack tablets once in a prescription because a tablet cassette for supplying divided tablets is not provided when the doctor's prescription sometimes requires the division of tablets.

So, conventionally, the automatic packaging device and the semi-automatic packaging device can be purchased together to solve the above problems, but this has the disadvantage of the cost burden of purchasing two packaging devices, and secures the space for installing both. This is followed by the inefficiency of space utilization.

In addition, since the drop passage of the tablet is conventionally sealed, this passage cannot be easily cleaned, and there are other disadvantages in that it is unsanitary because residue or dust of the tablet is generated due to long use.

The present invention has been made to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, the object of the present invention by distributing the tablets manually and automatically by batch, and by improving the input passage of the tablet to a cleanable structure In addition, the number of tablet cassettes can be efficiently reduced, so that the volume of the entire device can be easily reduced, and it can be effectively used in pharmacies or small pharmacies near hospitals specializing in specific medical care. It relates to a tablet packaging apparatus that can be easily cleaned after checking with.

Accordingly, the present invention provides a tablet packaging apparatus for transporting a plurality of tablets, manually and automatically dispensed together to a packaging hopper to achieve the object as described above, the packaging device comprising a plurality of different tablets The tablet cassette of is installed on the front surface of the mounting plate, and a plurality of passages are formed on the rear surface of the mounting plate to communicate between the outlet of the tablet cassette and the upper side of the connection hopper, the packaging hopper is the connection hopper It is arranged to coincide with the lower outlet of the, and the tablet feed-in injection plate having a plurality of tablet interior parts at equal intervals and at the same time and having an opening and closing plate for opening and closing the lower side of the tablet interior part has an incision located at the upper side of the connection hopper It is supported by a ring-shaped support frame, which is located inside the tablet interior of the tablet feeder and the tablet cassette. I provides a tablet packing apparatus which is formed by gathering the packaging hopper is discharged by a separate motor power via the hopper being connected, packing a number of tablets put into the packing hopper are discharged to the lower outlet of the packing hopper.

1 is a perspective view of a tablet packaging apparatus according to the present invention,

2 is a front cross-sectional view partially showing a tablet packaging apparatus according to the present invention;

Figure 3 is a rear view showing a passage applied to the tablet packaging apparatus according to the present invention,

4 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line A-A of FIG.

5 is a cross-sectional view taken along line B-B of FIG. 2;

Figure 6 is a partial cross-sectional view showing a packaging portion applied to the tablet packaging apparatus of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

1: tablet packaging device 2: tablet cassette

3: tablet feeder 3a: tablet inner part

3b: opening and closing plate 4: wrapping paper

5: mounting plate 6: connecting hopper

7: passage 7a: passage side wall plate

7b: cover 8: support frame

8a: incision 10: tablets

11: inclined guide 12: guide

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 and 2 are a perspective view and a front view showing a tablet packaging apparatus according to the present invention, reference numeral 1 denotes a tablet packaging apparatus for distributing a plurality of tablets 10 manually and automatically.

In the tablet packaging apparatus 1 according to the present invention, a plurality of tablet cassettes 2 respectively storing different tablets 10 are installed in a matrix on the front surface of the mounting plate 5, and the tablets A plurality of passages 7 are provided on the rear surface of the mounting plate 5 for guiding the tablets 10 discharged from the cassette 2 to the connection hopper 6 to be described later. At the lower outlet, a packing hopper 6a for collecting the tablets 10 discharged from each of the tablet cassettes 2 and feeding them to the packing paper 4 described later is installed in succession.

That is, as shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, a plurality of tablet cassettes 2 are continuously and vertically installed in front of the mounting plate 5, and shown in Figure 3 on the back of the mounting plate 5 As described above, a plurality of passages 7 which vertically and vertically connect the outlets of the tablet cassettes 2 of the vertical rows arranged vertically are provided. And, the inclined guide plate 11 for guiding the tablet 10 discharged from the lower end of the plurality of passages 7 to the connection hopper 6 on both sides of the lower end of the mounting plate (5).

Preferably, as shown in Fig. 4, the passage 7 is provided with passage side wall plates 7a on both sides of the holes 5a in each column formed in the mounting plate 5, respectively. The cover 7b of the transparent synthetic resin material covers the outer portion of the passage side wall plate 7a so that the internal state of the sheet can be visually checked.

In addition, the tablet packaging apparatus 1 of the present invention includes a guide plate 12 installed inside the upper side of the hole (5a) formed in the mounting plate 5 to guide the tablet 10 below the passage (7) In addition, the guide plate 12 is attached to the upper end inside the upper side of the hole (5a) of the mounting plate 5, bent into the passage (7), it is formed of a synthetic resin material to easily hit the tablet 10 The tablet 10 stored in each tablet cassette 2 is discharged to the passage 7 by a motor 2a provided in each tablet cassette 2 and controlled by a controller (not shown).

Meanwhile, in the tablet packaging apparatus 1 according to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 4, a plurality of tablet interior parts 3a are formed at an equiangular interval at the edges and at the bottom of the tablet interior part 3a. It is provided with a tablet feed plate 3 having an opening and closing plate (3b) for opening and closing. The tablet feeder plate 3 is for dispensing the tablet 10 manually by dispensing the tablet 10 to its tablet inner portion 3a, if necessary, and the tablet feeder plate 3 is provided. The tablet 10 distributed in the portion 3a is discharged downward by the opening and closing plate 3b to be put into the wrapping paper 4.

To this end, the present invention is well shown in Figure 5, the tablet feed plate 3 is located on the upper side of the connecting hopper 6 is rotatably supported, the bottom of each tablet interior (3a) One end is composed of the opening and closing plate (3b) hinged to one side of the lower end of the tablet interior (3a) by the ring-shaped support frame (8), each opening and closing plate (3b) has a cutout portion (8a) at a predetermined position In this way, when the tablet feeding plate 3 is rotated so that the opening and closing plate 3b is positioned at the cutout 8a of the support frame 8, the opening and closing plate 3b is hinged due to its own weight. When the opening and closing plate 3b automatically opens and rotates around the shaft, and the opening and closing plate 3b opened by the continuous rotation of the tablet feed input plate 3 exceeds the cutout 8a of the support frame 8, the support frame 8 The opening and closing plate 3b is closed due to the interference by the upper end of the cutout 8a and is kept closed.

The tablet feed-through plate 3 is driven by a motor 9 to be rotated by the motor 9 to discharge the tablets 10 manually distributed to the tablet interior parts 3a, and the packaging hopper 6a through the connection hopper 6. After being gathered in, it is put into the wrapping paper 4 passing through the bottom of the packaging hopper 6a and packed.

On the other hand, in the present invention, as shown in Figures 2, 3 and 6, the packaging means for packaging the tablet 10 once in the lower portion of the tablet packaging apparatus 1 is provided. This is because a plurality of support rods 21 for guiding and supporting the wrapped wrapping paper 4 are arranged on the lower mounting plate 22, and the printer 23, wrapping paper for printing patient and prescription information, etc. on the surface of the wrapping paper 4; The guide folding member 24 which continuously folds the width center part of (4), the slap rod 25 which intermittently taps the width center part of the wrapping paper 4, and the folded wrapping paper 4 are continuously sealed in the upper longitudinal direction. In addition, the heating roller 26 which seals intermittently in the horizontal direction is provided by being installed in the lower mounting plate 22 in order.

And the exit side of the heating roller 26 is provided with a feed roller 27 for transporting the wrapping paper 4 and a cutter 28 for cutting the sealed wrapping paper 4 by the required amount, the wrapping paper 4 is a support rod Wrapping paper sensor 29 for detecting whether it is located at (21) is installed, the adapter 30 for connecting the cut wrapper (4) is further installed.

Here, the heating roller 26 is rotated by the rotational force of the motor 31 installed on the rear surface of the lower mounting plate 22, the sling rod cam 25a is also rotated by the motor 31 ) Will be linked.

In addition, in this embodiment, the opening and closing plate 32 is installed at the lower exit of the packaging hopper (6a), the opening and closing plate 32 is interlocked by the hopper opening and closing cam (32a) rotated by the motor (31) It is opened and closed by the opening and closing rod 32b.

In the tablet packaging apparatus 1 according to the present invention, the tablet 10, which is commonly used in the tablet cassette 2, is used, and the tablet transfer plate 3 is rarely used for prescription, for example. Or if the half tablets (10) is mixed and used. Of course, the tablet packaging apparatus 1 of the present invention is preferably formed to a size that can accommodate most tablets 10 in the tablet cassette (2).

The use state of the present invention is described in more detail by dividing into automatic packaging and manual packaging as follows.

First, in the case where tablets 10 which are not usually used in the prescription or half of the tablets 10 are mixed, the tablet cassette 2 is placed on each tablet inner part 3a of the tablet transfer plate 3. The tablet packaging device 1 is operated after dispensing the tablets 10 or half tablets 10 manually. Then, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the motor ( 9) is driven to rotate the tablet feeding plate 3 in a predetermined direction, and accordingly the opening and closing plate 3b constituting the bottom of each tablet inner portion (3a) of the tablet feeding plate 3 is a support frame ( 8, the opening and closing plate 3b is rotated downward by its own weight, so that the tablet 10 distributed therein falls into the connecting hopper 6 and collects in the packaging hopper 6a. At the same time, a set of tablet cassettes (2) containing frequently used tablets (10) in the prescription (2a) is operated to discharge the retained tablets (10) to the passage (7), the discharged tablets (10) are freely dropped along each passage (7) and also packed via the connecting hopper (6) The tablets 10 collected in the packaging hopper 6a are thus packed hopper 6a by an opening / closing rod 32b interlocked with a hopper opening and closing cam 32a driven by a motor 31. Opening and closing plate 32 of the opening) is discharged to the lower portion, the tablets 10 discharged in this way is the wrapping paper folded by the guide folding member 24 and the swivel rod 25 while passing through the lower portion of the packaging hopper (6a) After being put into (4), it is sealed and packaged once by a subsequent heating roller 26. Meanwhile, the tablet 10 recorded in the prescription is composed of only tablets 10 which are frequently used in the daily life and a half tablet 10 If there is no), manual distribution of the tablet 10 to the tablet feeder 3 is not necessary, and the tablet packaging apparatus 1 is operated as it is. All. Then, the motor 2a of the various tablet cassettes 2 storing the tablets 10 corresponding to the prescription is simultaneously driven to discharge the tablets 10 into the passages 7, respectively. They fall along the passage (7) and pass through the connecting hopper (6), are collected in the packaging hopper (6a), and then the opening and closing plate 32 is opened into the wrapping paper (4) passing through the lower heating roller (26) Is sealed packed by. At this time, the tablet feed plate 3 is not operated.

Thus, the tablet packaging apparatus according to the present invention can be used both automatically and semi-automatically, so that various tablets that are rapidly developed can be used without necessarily being put in the tablet cassette (2).

On the other hand, when the tablet packaging apparatus is used for a long time as described above, the remnants and dust, etc. of the tablet 10 is introduced into the passage (7), the need arises to be cleaned, and accordingly the tablet packaging apparatus of the present invention is the passage (7) Since the cover 7b constituting a) is made of a transparent material, the passage 7 can be visually checked, and then the cover 7b can be removed to easily clean the passage 7.

As described above, the tablet packaging apparatus according to the present invention can automatically dispense the tablets in the tablet cassette and distribute them as prescription, and also automatically distribute the tablets once by distributing the tablets manually in the tablet interior of the tablet feeder. Therefore, the number of tablet cassettes can be efficiently reduced, so that the volume of the entire device can be easily reduced, and the tablets commonly used in the tablet cassette can be built into the tablet cassette. Since it can be distributed, it can be effectively used in pharmacies or small drugstores near hospitals that specialize in specific medical care.

In addition, the present invention is because the cover forming the input passage of the tablet is not only made of a transparent material, but also detachable, there is a further advantage such as easy to clean after confirming the passage through which the tablet is injected.

Claims (4)

In the tablet packaging device comprising a plurality of tablets distributed manually and automatically together in a packaging hopper to package once each, A plurality of tablet cassettes containing different tablets are installed on the front surface of the mounting plate, and a plurality of passages communicating between the outlet of the tablet cassette and the upper side of the connecting hopper are formed on the rear surface of the mounting plate, The packaging hopper is arranged to coincide with the lower outlet of the connecting hopper, At the edge, a plurality of tablet inner parts are formed at equal intervals and at the same time, a tablet feed input plate having an opening and closing plate for opening and closing the lower side of the tablet inner part is supported by a ring-shaped support frame having an incision located at an upper side of the connecting hopper. , The tablet interior of the tablet feeder and the tablets inside the tablet cassette are discharged by separate motor power and collected in a packing hopper through a connection hopper, and a plurality of tablets injected into the packing hopper are lower outlets of the packing hopper. Tablet packaging device comprising the discharged to the packaging. The method of claim 1, The tablet cassette is installed on the mounting plate in a lattice shape, and the outlets of the plurality of tablet cassettes vertically arranged up and down are connected to the passage to form a plurality of passages, and the tablets discharged from the lower ends of the plurality of passages are collected by a connection hopper. Tablet packaging device comprising a guide plate to guide is installed on both sides of the lower end of the installation plate. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The passage is a tablet packaging apparatus characterized in that the passage side wall plate is installed on both sides of the hole formed in the mounting plate, the cover of the transparent synthetic resin material to cover the outer portion of the passage side wall plate. The method of claim 3, Tablet packaging apparatus comprising a guide plate of a synthetic resin material installed inclined toward the passage in the upper side of the hole formed in the mounting plate to guide the tablet down the passage.