JP2003159134A - Cabinet for carrying medicine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cabinet for carrying medicine, which can support various sizes of medicine packet in spite of occupying a small space when not used and having simple structure. <P>SOLUTION: A plurality of medicine packet support members 3 to support a plurality of steps of medicine packets 7 to store medicine is equipped on a movable base 2 with casters 4. The medicine packet support members 3 have support parts 8 arranged in parallel at prescribed intervals on the base 2 to respectively support both side edges of a medicine packet by facing parts. The medicine packet support members 3 are formed in places not to interfere at least with the base 2 of a neighboring cabinet 1 when a plurality of cabinets 1 are arranged in parallel in a condition all the medicine packets 7 are removed. Thus medicine packet support members 3 in each cabinet 1 can be superposed and orderly arranged. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a drug delivery cabinet used when delivering a drug.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a hospital, for example, when a drug is transported from a dispensing room to each room in a ward, the drug is stored in a drug bucket, and the drug bucket is stacked in a cabinet equipped with casters in multiple stages. A configuration that can be performed is known.

[0003]

However, since the above-mentioned cabinet occupies a large space, it is necessary to secure a storage place when medicines are not transported.
As the number of cabinets increases, so does the storage space required.

Further, if the drug buckets have the same size uniformly, there is a problem that the number of medicines prescribed to a patient is too large to fit in, and conversely, the medicines are small and an extra space becomes large. Therefore, although drug buckets of various sizes are generally prepared, the structure of a cabinet for holding such drug buckets becomes complicated.

Therefore, the present invention aims to provide a drug delivery cabinet capable of supporting drug buckets of various sizes in spite of having a simple structure which occupies a small space when not in use. It is an issue.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems] As a means for solving the above problems, the present invention provides a plurality of drug buckets for supporting a drug bucket containing a drug in multiple stages on a movable base equipped with casters. In the drug delivery cabinet including a support member, the drug bucket support members are arranged side by side at a predetermined interval on a base, and are provided with support portions for supporting both side edges of the drug bucket at opposing portions, When a plurality of cabinets are installed side by side with all of them removed, it is possible to stack and arrange the drug bucket support members of each cabinet by forming at least a position that does not interfere with the base of the adjacent cabinets. Characteristic drug delivery cabinet.

With this configuration, by removing all the drug buckets from the drug bucket support member, it is possible to align the cabinets so that the drug bucket support members overlap each other. Therefore, even if the number of cabinets increases, the occupied space does not increase.

Further, it is preferable that the intervals between the medicine bucket support members are adjustable so that even medicine buckets having different widths can be supported.

Further, when each of the medicine bucket support members is rotatably provided with respect to the base, particularly when a plurality of cabinets are aligned so as to overlap with each other, the medicine bucket support members can be rotated so as to be along. It is preferable in that it can be moved to further suppress the occupied space.

Furthermore, if a locking mechanism for disabling the drug buckets supported by the supporting portions of the drug bucket supporting members is provided and the locking mechanisms can be concentrated and operated at a specific location, they can be handled easily. It is preferable because it is convenient.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a front view of a drug delivery cabinet 1 according to this embodiment, and FIG. 2 is a plan view thereof. The cabinet 1 is made of stainless steel, steel, aluminum alloy, or the like, and is composed of a base 2 and a plurality of drug bucket support members 3 arranged side by side on the base 2.

The base 2 is formed in a substantially H shape consisting of a base beam 2a and cross beams 2b and 2c attached to the lower surfaces of both ends of the base beam 2a, and casters are provided at both ends of the cross beams 2b and 2c. By being provided with 4, it is movable on the floor surface.

Each of the medicine bucket supporting members 3 is formed in a rectangular lattice plate shape, and supporting pieces 6 are provided so as to project laterally from the horizontal rail 5 (FIG. 3). Then, the support portions 8 that support the medicine bucket 7 are configured by the both support pieces 6 formed at the facing portions of the adjacent medicine bucket support members 3.

In the medicine bucket support member 3a located at both ends of the base 2 and at two places of the intermediate portion, projections 9a and 9b are formed at the central portions of the upper and lower horizontal rails 5a, respectively. And
The upper protrusion 9a is connected by the auxiliary beam 10,
By fixing the lower protrusion 9b on the base beam 2a of the base 2, the medicine bucket support members 3a are arranged in parallel at a predetermined interval. By providing the protrusions 9a and 9b,
The medicine bucket support member 3a is mounted on the base 2 and the auxiliary beam 10.
Can be spaced apart from. The space between the medicine bucket support members 3a can be designed to have an appropriate size according to the size of the medicine bucket 7 to be used.

Further, as shown in FIG. 3, the medicine bucket support members 3b located at two other intermediate portions of the base 2 are
A slide shaft 11 provided on the base beam 2a of the base 2 and the auxiliary beam 10 is slidably mounted via a slide bearing 12 (in FIG. 3, only the upper side is shown). For positioning the medicine bucket support member 3b, for example, a quick set collar 30 (product name) and a ball catch 40 shown in FIGS. 15 (a) and 15 (b) may be used. The quick set collar 30 accommodates a lock lever 33 in a notch groove formed in a ring 31 coupled to the slide shaft 11 and rotatably supports a support shaft 37 as a center. It is biased in the circumferential direction. At the position shown in FIG. 15B, the urging force of the spring 35 causes the lock lever 3 to move.
The lower end of 3 is brought into pressure contact with the slide shaft 11 to be in a locked state. Then, when the lock lever 33 is pushed in the direction of the arrow indicated by the dotted line, the lower end portion is lifted and separated from the slide shaft, becoming the unlocked state, and the medicine bucket support member 3b.
Can be slid. On the other hand, the ball catch 40
As shown in FIGS. 16 (a) and 16 (b), a ball 45 is housed in a main body 41 having an external thread formed on its outer peripheral surface while being urged upward by a spring 43, and It is guided by the flange 47 so as to be 40%. Ball catch 41 is slide bearing 1
The auxiliary beam 10 is provided with a guide rail (not shown) which is provided instead of the two and guides the flange 47. Thereby, when the ball 43 slides along the guide rail and stops at a desired position, the ball 43 is pressed against the guide rail by the urging force of the spring 41, and the medicine bucket support member 3b is positioned. In order to secure this positioning state, it is desirable to provide the guide rail with a concave portion to which the ball 43 can be fixed.

Further, one end side of the auxiliary beam 10 is shown in FIG.
~ As shown in FIG. 3, a lock handle 1 that can be rotated.
3 is provided. The lock handle 13 is connected to a drive shaft 14, and the drive shaft is connected to a driven shaft 15 via a gear. Passive shaft 1
4, the driven shaft 15 and the gear are arranged in the auxiliary beam. The driven shaft is connected to the elevating rod 16 via a rack and pinion mechanism. Lifting rod 1
6 is provided on the medicine bucket support member 3a excluding the medicine bucket support member 3a located below the lock handle 13, and is urged upward by the spring 16a. (When it is provided on the medicine bucket support member 3b, the rack and pinion mechanism needs to be configured to slide along with the slide movement). An arm portion 17 is formed on the elevating rod 16 for each support piece 6, and at the tip thereof,
An engagement protrusion 18 that engages and disengages with a step portion 7c of the collar portion 7a of the medicine bucket 7 described below is formed. As a result, the plurality of medicine buckets 7 supported by the cabinet 1 can be brought into the locked state or the unlocked state only by intensively operating the lock handle 13 provided at one specific location. By adopting a locking mechanism for the lock handle 13, it is possible to prevent the stored medicine from being taken out without unlocking after the medicine bucket 7 is mounted. As a result, it is possible to reliably prevent a third party from peeping at the medicine being conveyed or taking it out without permission. However, in the above embodiment,
It is necessary to provide a lid or the like on the medicine bucket 7 located at the top so that the medicine bucket 7 can be locked.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 8, the medicine bucket 7 is made of a synthetic resin such as vinyl chloride, polycarbonate, ABS resin or the like, and has a box shape with an open top surface. In this embodiment, four types of drug buckets 7 having different width dimensions and height dimensions are used, and the infusion bag 19 is used.
(FIG. 3) and the medicine container 20 can be stored. The wide type drug buckets 7 can accommodate three side-by-side drug bags 19 side by side, leaving a space for easy removal, and the narrow type drug buckets 7 can accommodate one. The bulky type medicine bucket 7 can accommodate the infusion bags 19 in two upper and lower stages, and the bulky type medicine bucket 7 can accommodate only one stage. In the upper opening edge of the medicine bucket 7, the flange portion 7a on the vertical side (longitudinal direction) is the flange portion 7b on the lateral side (width direction).
The stepped portion 7c is formed by being provided at a lower position than the stepped portion 7c, and the engaging protrusion 18 that interlocks with the lock handle 13 is disengaged therefrom. Further, a plurality of rectangular holes 21 are arranged in parallel on the side wall of the medicine bucket 7. The rectangular hole 21 is
It is used for attaching a partition plate (not shown) provided in the medicine bucket 7 and for fixing the medicine container 20 described below. The medicine container 20 is made of the same synthetic resin as that of the medicine bucket 7 and is formed in a box shape having an open upper surface. The drug container 20 contains a drug such as an ampoule to be administered to a certain patient. Therefore, one patient may have 2
When performing the administration once, two drug containers 20 are required. The medicine container 20 is fixed in the medicine bucket 7 by a locking member 22. The locking member 22 is made of a synthetic resin and formed in a substantially U shape, and holds the locking arm 22 a that locks in the rectangular hole 21 of the medicine bucket 7 and the upper opening edge of the medicine container 20. The drug container 20 is positioned by the portion 22b.

The locking member 22 may be composed of a locking portion 23 integrally provided on the side surface of the medicine bucket 7 as shown in FIG.

Further, on the side surface of the medicine bucket 7, FIG.
Alternatively, the protrusion 24 shown in FIG. 7 may be formed. In FIG.
The protrusion 24 is composed of a drop-shaped protrusion 25. When the drug containers 20 are stacked, the protrusion 2 of the drug container 20 on the upper side
Since 5 abuts on the upper opening edge of the drug container 20 on the lower side, the inner and outer surfaces of the side walls are prevented from coming into close contact with each other and becoming difficult to separate. However, the shape of the protrusion 25 is not limited to a drop shape, and may be any shape such as an elliptical shape as long as it can prevent the stacked drug containers 20 from coming into close contact with each other. In FIG. 7, the protrusion 24 is composed of a pair of locking protrusions 6 that are separated by a predetermined distance. This locking projection 26
Not only serves to separate the stacked drug containers 20 easily, but also serves to position the drug containers 20 by locking them on the side edge of the rectangular hole 21 of the drug bucket 7.

Next, a usage mode of the drug delivery cabinet 1 having the above-described configuration will be described.

When a medicine or the like is conveyed, the medicine or the like is contained in the medicine bucket 7, and the medicine bucket 7 is supported by each supporting portion 8. In this case, the infusion bag 19 is stored as it is, and other forms of medicine, such as ampoules and packaged medicines, are contained in the medicine container 20 and stored in the medicine bucket 7 for each patient. The drug container 20 is positioned using the locking member 22. The drug container 20 is shown in FIG.
As shown in (a), even if any of the many rectangular holes 21 formed on the side surface of the medicine bucket 7 is used, the locking member 2
The position can be surely set by 2. After positioning by the locking member 22, as shown in FIG. 8B, the drug container 20 is slid with respect to the locking member 22, and the drug container 20 is positioned at the corner of the drug bucket 7, for example. It is also possible. Thereby, when the cabinet 1 is moved, it is possible to surely prevent a problem such that drugs that are divided for each patient or for each drug type are mixed. Further, the slide type medicine bucket support member 3b is slid in accordance with the size of the medicine bucket 7 to be used and set to an appropriate interval. This makes it possible to properly support the medicine bucket 7 regardless of the size difference.

When the attachment of the medicine buckets 7 is completed, the lock handle 13 is rotated to engage the engaging portion 23 with the step portion 7c of each medicine bucket 7 to bring the medicine buckets 7 into the locked state. As a result, when the cabinet 1 is moved to a ward or the like, it is possible to prevent problems such as the medicine bucket 7 falling off and the medicine falling.

When storing a plurality of cabinets 1 when not in use, the medicine bucket 7 is completely removed,
As shown in FIGS. 9 and 17, they are arranged so as to overlap each other. The medicine bucket support member 3 includes protrusions 9a and 9b.
Since they are located between the base beam 2a of the base 2 and the auxiliary beam 10, they do not interfere with each other. In addition, as shown in FIG.
Since a and the cross beams 2b and 2c are connected by a connecting member 2d, respectively, and the base beam 2a is located above the cross beams 2b and 2c by this connecting member 2d, they do not interfere with each other. Therefore, even when a plurality of cabinets 1 are stored, the occupied space can be reduced.

The medicine bucket support member 3 is the base 2
Is rotatably provided with respect to the base beam 2a and the auxiliary beam 10, and all of them are obliquely rotated in the same direction as shown in FIG. 10, or two central support members 3 are provided as shown in FIG. It is possible to rotate so that the two support members 3 on both sides spread toward the front side and are parallel to these. This makes it possible to further reduce the storage space of the cabinet 1.

The positioning of the medicine bucket 7 in the cabinet 1 may be performed by the structure shown in FIG. That is, the engaging protrusion 33 is formed on the arm 32 extending from the elevating rod 16, and the engaging protrusion 33 is engaged with the engaging hole 34 formed in the collar 7 a of the medicine bucket 7.

All of the medicine bucket support members 3 may be fixed to the base 2 and the auxiliary beam 10. Further, the slide mechanism may be configured as shown in FIG. That is, the upper and lower protrusions 9a and 9b of the medicine bucket support member 3b are inserted into the guide grooves 36 formed in the base 2 and the auxiliary beam 10 to provide a plurality of sets of rollers 35,
This allows the medicine bucket support member 3b to slide along the guide groove 36.

[0028]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, the medicine bucket support members of each cabinet can be arranged in an overlapping manner, so that the storage space can be reduced even if the number of cabinets increases. can do.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a drug delivery cabinet according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a partial perspective view of FIG.

4 is a perspective view of a drug container housed in the drug bucket of FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing another example of a drug container.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a state in which drug containers according to another example are stacked.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing a state in which drug containers according to still another example are stacked.

FIG. 8 is a partial perspective view showing an example of attaching a medicine container to a medicine bucket.

9 is a plan view showing a storage state of the drug delivery cabinet shown in FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 10 is a plan view showing a storage state of a drug delivery cabinet according to another example.

FIG. 11 is a plan view showing a storage state of a drug delivery cabinet according to another example.

FIG. 12 is a cross-sectional view showing another example for locking a medicine bucket in a medicine transport cabinet.

FIG. 13 is a partial perspective view showing another example of the medicine bucket support member slidably provided.

14 (a) is a perspective view showing a base portion of FIG. 1,
(B) is the side view.

15A is a perspective view showing a quick set collar, and FIG. 15B is a sectional view thereof.

16A is a perspective view showing a ball catch, FIG.
(B) is the sectional view.

FIG. 17 is a partial perspective view showing a storage state of the medical transport cabinet in FIG. 9.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Cabinet 2 ... base 3 ... Pharmaceutical bucket support member 5 ... Horizontal cross 6 ... Support piece 7 ... Drug bucket 8 ... Supporting part 10 ... Auxiliary beam 11 ... Slide shaft 12 ... Slide bearing 13 ... Lock handle 16 ... Lifting rod 17 ... Arm 18 ... Engaging protrusion 20 ... Pharmaceutical container 21 ... Rectangular hole 22 ... Locking member

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Akitoshi             33-1 Meishinguchi, Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture Stock             Company Yuyama Works

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A drug delivery cabinet comprising a plurality of drug bucket support members for supporting drug buckets containing drugs in multiple stages on a movable base provided with casters, wherein the drug bucket support member comprises: When a plurality of cabinets are arranged side by side in a state in which a plurality of cabinets are arranged side by side at predetermined intervals on the base and support both side edges of the medicine bucket at opposite portions, and the medicine buckets are all removed, they are at least adjacent to each other. A drug delivery cabinet characterized in that the drug bucket support members of each cabinet can be arranged so as to be overlapped with each other by being formed at a position where they do not interfere with the base of the cabinet. 2. The medicine transport cabinet according to claim 1, wherein the medicine bucket support members are provided so that a distance between them can be adjusted. 3. The medicine bucket support member is rotatably provided with respect to the base.
Or the drug delivery cabinet according to 2. 4. A locking mechanism for disabling a drug bucket supported by a support portion of each of the drug bucket support members is provided, and the locking mechanism can be collectively operated at a specific location. The drug delivery cabinet according to claim 1, 2 or 3.