EP2835127A1 - Trichter für eine medikamentenverpackung - Google Patents

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EP2835127A1
EP2835127A1 EP13772853.1A EP13772853A EP2835127A1 EP 2835127 A1 EP2835127 A1 EP 2835127A1 EP 13772853 A EP13772853 A EP 13772853A EP 2835127 A1 EP2835127 A1 EP 2835127A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B39/00—Nozzles, funnels or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers
    • B65B39/007—Guides or funnels for introducing articles into containers or wrappers
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J7/00—Devices for administering medicines orally, e.g. spoons; Pill counting devices; Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine
    • A61J7/0076—Medicament distribution means
    • A61J7/0084—Medicament distribution means for multiple medicaments
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B1/00—Packaging fluent solid material, e.g. powders, granular or loose fibrous material, loose masses of small articles, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B1/04—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B1/00—Packaging fluent solid material, e.g. powders, granular or loose fibrous material, loose masses of small articles, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
    • B65B1/04—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles
    • B65B1/06—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles by gravity flow
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B5/00—Packaging individual articles in containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars
    • B65B5/10—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles
    • B65B5/101—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles by gravity
    • B65B5/103—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles by gravity for packaging pills or tablets
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
    • B65B57/10—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged
    • B65B57/14—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged and operating to control, or stop, the feed of articles or material to be packaged
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B59/00—Arrangements to enable machines to handle articles of different sizes, to produce packages of different sizes, to vary the contents of packages, to handle different types of packaging material, or to give access for cleaning or maintenance purposes
    • B65B59/04—Machines constructed with readily-detachable units or assemblies, e.g. to facilitate maintenance
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/0092—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for assembling and dispensing of pharmaceutical articles

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  • the present invention relates to a hopper for a medicine wrapper, and more particularly to a hopper for a medicine wrapper, in which the hopper can be simply attached to or detached from an exact position and easily maintained, for example cleaned and washed after the hopper is detached.
  • a medicine wrapper is a device to receive medicines from a plurality of medicine cassettes, which have the medicines such as tablets, powders, or capsules according to types, and to consecutively pack the medicines in the unit of a dose.
  • the medicine wrapper includes medicine cassettes provided in a body to receive medicines such as tablets or capsules having various sizes and various shapes.
  • the medicine wrapper includes a hopper to collect medicines discharge from the medicine cassette, a printing unit to print various pieces of information on the surface of a pack having medicines therein, and a packing unit to pack the medicines collected by the hopper.
  • a transfer hopper having a duct structure is mounted at a passage extending from a body to the hopper, and the passage is detachably coupled between the body and the hopper.
  • the transfer hopper of the medicine wrapper allows various types of medicines to be transferred. Accordingly, when the transfer hopper of the medicine wrapper is used for a long time, different types of medicine powders may be mixed with each other in the process of transferring the medicine. Accordingly, the transfer hopper must be periodically detached from the body and cleaned.
  • the present invention is made keeping in mind the above problem occurring in the related art, and an object of the present invention is to a hopper for a medicine wrapper, which can be simply detached from or attached to an exact position.
  • an object of the present invention is to provide a hopper for a medicine wrapper, which can be easily maintained, for example cleaned and washed after the hopper is detached.
  • a hopper for a medicine wrapper which includes a body provided therein with at least one partition, a hopper body detachably coupled with the partition and an internal surface of the body, including a passage to transfer a medicine in one direction, and bisected along both edges thereof in a transfer direction of the medicine, a first unit provided in the hopper body corresponding to one edge of a communication hole formed through the partition and the internal surface of the body, and at least one second unit detachably provided along each of both edges of the hopper body for decoupling or integral coupling of the hopper body.
  • the hopper body includes a first body defined by mutually combining a front surface and portions of both lateral sides of the hopper body that form the passage, and a second body defined by mutually combining a rear surface and remaining portions of the both lateral sides of the hopper body that form the passage.
  • the first unit is provided on the front and rear surfaces
  • the second unit is provided along a line on which both lateral-side edges of the first and second bodies and meet each other.
  • the first unit includes a first contact member extending from the hopper body facing the internal surface of the body, and a second contact member extending from the hopper body corresponding to one edge of the communication hole such that the second contact member is detachably coupled with the partition.
  • the first unit further includes a first magnet provided at the first contact member, and a secondmagnet provided at the second contact member.
  • the at least one second unit includes at least one coupling protrusion protruding from both lateral sides of the hopper body, guide grooves formed along an outer circumference of the coupling protrusion while facing each other in a vertical direction, locking grooves formed along the outer circumference of the coupling protrusion while facing each other in the vertical direction and being perpendicular to the guide grooves, and a guide member extending from an edge of an end portion of the coupling protrusion and having notches connected with the guide grooves.
  • the coupling protrusion, the guide grooves, and the guide member are bisected along a line to bisect the hopper body.
  • the at least one second unit further includes a cover that has an inner diameter in a shape corresponding to a shape of an edge of the guide member, surrounds the guide member and the coupling protrusion, and is rotatable along the outer circumference of the coupling protrusion, a boss that protrude from an inner circumference of the cover in a shape corresponding to shapes of the guide groove and the locking groove, and at least one wing protruding from an outer circumference of the cover.
  • the present invention has following effects.
  • the first unit is provided at the hopper body so that the hopper body can be detachably coupled with the body, and the at least one second unit is detachably provided along both lateral-side edges of the hopper body to bisect the hopper body or to integrally couple the bisected parts of the hopper body with each other. Accordingly, the assembling work is simple, and the maintenance work such as a cleaning work or a washing work can be easily performed.
  • the first unit when comparing with a conventional hopper structure, an additional coupling unit or tool is not required, and the first unit allows the hopper body to be mounted at an exact position of the body while inducing the surface contact throughput a wider area.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing the state that a hopper body of a hopper for a medicine wrapper according to one embodiment of the present invention is mounted at a body.
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the hopper for the medicine wrapper according to one embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view showing an enlarged view of FIG. 1 .
  • front surface and rear surface used in the present invention represent right and left sides in accompanying drawings, particularly, FIG. 2 .
  • Reference numeral 310 which is described in FIG. 1 , represents an openable door.
  • a hopper body 500 includes first units 100 so that the hopper bodies 500 are detachably coupled with a body 300, and detachably coupled with at least one second unit 200 provided along both edges of the hopper bodies 500 for the integral coupling or the decoupling of the hopper body 500.
  • the body 300 has a space in which the hopper body 500 is embedded, and has at least one partition 302 provided therein.
  • the body 300 provides a space including medicine cassettes to receive medicines such as tablets, or capsules having various sizes and shapes, a hopper to collect the medicines discharge from the medicine cassette, a printing unit to print various pieces of information on the surface of a pack having medicines therein, and a packing unit to pack the medicines collected by the hopper.
  • medicine cassettes to receive medicines such as tablets, or capsules having various sizes and shapes
  • a hopper to collect the medicines discharge from the medicine cassette
  • a printing unit to print various pieces of information on the surface of a pack having medicines therein
  • a packing unit to pack the medicines collected by the hopper.
  • the hopper body 500 is detachably coupled with the partition 302 and an internal side 303 of the body 300 and includes a passage 501 to transfer the medicines in one direction.
  • the hopper body 500 is bisected along both edges in a transfer direction of the medicines.
  • the first unit 100 is provided at the hopper body 500 corresponding to one edge of a communication hole 301 formed through the partition 302 and the internal side 303 of the body 300.
  • the passage 501 of the hopper body 500 communicates with the communication hole 301.
  • the at least second unit 200 is detachably provided along both edges of the hopper body 500 for the coupling or the integral coupling of the hopper body 500.
  • the hopper body 500 can be detached from or attached to an exact position of the body 300 without a fixture, such as an additional positioning unit or a bolt, and a fixing tool.
  • the hopper body 500 is bisected or the bisected parts of the hopper body 500 are integrally coupled with each other as described above.
  • the hopper body 500 has a structure including a first body 510 defined by mutually combining a front surface and portions of both lateral sides of the hopper body 500 constituting the passage 501 and a second body 520 defined by mutually combining a rear surface and remaining portions of the both lateral sides constituting the passage 501.
  • the first unit 100 is provided at the front and rear surfaces
  • the second unit 200 is provided along a line on which both lateral-side edges of the first and second bodies 510 and 520 meet each other.
  • the first unit 100 includes a first contact member 110 extending from the hopper body 500 facing the internal surface 303 of the body 300, in more detail, the first body 510.
  • the first unit 100 includes a second contact member 120 extending from the hopper body 500, in more detail, the second body 520 corresponding to one edge of the communication hole 301 so that the second contact member 120 is detachably coupled with the partition 302.
  • a first magnet 130 is provided at the first contact member 110, and a secondmagnet 140 is provided at the second contact member 120 so that the first unit 100 can be detachably coupled with the body 300, which mainly includes a metallic material, strongly.
  • the second unit 200 is used to bisect the hopper body 500 in a direction in which the passage 501 is formed or combine the bisected parts of the hopper body 500 with each other as described above.
  • the second unit 200 is bisected or the bisected parts of the second unit 200 are combined with each other by detachably coupling a cover 23 with a structure including a coupling protrusion along both edges of the hopper body, that is, a line to bisect the hopper body 500.
  • the coupling protrusion 210, a guide groove 212, a locking groove 214, and a guide member 220 extend from the hopper body 500, and the cover 230 including bosses 232 and wings 234 is detachably coupled with the above structure.
  • At least one coupling protrusion 210 protrudes from both lateral sides of the hopper body 500, guide grooves 212 are formed along an outer circumference of the coupling protrusion 210 while facing each other in a vertical direction, and locking grooves 214 formed along the outer circumference of the coupling protrusion 210 while facing each other in the vertical direction and being perpendicular to the guide groove 212.
  • the guide member 220 extends from an edge of an end portion of the coupling protrusion 210 and has notches 222 connected with the guide grooves 212.
  • the coupling protrusion 210, the guide groove 212, and the guide member 220 are bisected along a line to bisect the hopper body 500 as shown in FIG. 3 .
  • the cover 230 has an inner diameter having a shape corresponding to that of an edge of the guide member 220.
  • the cover 230 surrounds the guide member 220 and the coupling protrusion 210, and is rotatable along the outer circumference of the coupling protrusion 210.
  • the bosses 232 protrude from an inner circumference of the cover 230 in the shape corresponding to those of the guide groove 212 and the locking groove 214.
  • the wings 234 include at least one member protruding from an outer circumference of the cover 230.
  • a worker mutually couples the first and second bodies 510 and 520 with each other as shown in FIG. 4 , and provides the boss 232 of the cover 230 along the guide groove 212 through the notch 222 as shown in FIG. 5 , and grips the wing 234 to rotate the wing 234 clockwise or counterclockwise.
  • an end portion of the boss 232 moves along the outer circumference of the coupling protrusion 210 so that the guide member 220 is provided in a space between the boss 232 and an inner top surface of the cover 230. Accordingly, after the boss 232 rotates along a preset track, the boss 232 is finally locked to the locking groove 214.
  • the worker introduces the hopper body 500 into the body 300 via a slot 304 formed through the body 300 in communication with the inner part of the body 300, so the first and second contact members 110 and 120 of the first unit 100 are positioned on the internal surface 303 and the communication hole 301 of the body 300, respectively, so that the first and second contact members 110 and 120 make contact with the internal surface 303 and the edges of the communication hole 301.
  • the first and second magnets 130 and 140 provided at the first and second contact members 110 and 120, respectively are exactly attached to the internal surface 303 and the edges of the communication hole 301 of the body 300.
  • the worker when the worker cleans the hopper body 500 after detaching the hopper body 500 from the body 300, the worker rotates the cover 230 through the reverse operation to separate the cover 230 from the coupling protrusion 210 and the guide member 220 and to decouple the first and second bodies 510 and 520 from each other. In this case, the worker can sufficiently clean the internal surface of the first and secondbodies 510 and 520 forming the passage 501.
  • the coupling protrusion 210, the guide member 220, and the cover 230 serving as main components constituting the second unit 200 may have various shapes sufficient to smoothly perform mutually coupling and decoupling operations.
  • the coupling protrusion 210 protrudes in a cylindrical shape
  • the guide member 220 extends in a disc shape
  • the inner part of the cover 230 is manufactured in the shape corresponding to those of the coupling protrusion 210 and the guide member 220.
  • the hopper for the medicine wrapper which can be simply assembled according to a detachably coupling operation and easily maintained, for example cleaned and washed after the hopper is detached.

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