JP2010052793A - Fixed amount of tablet taking-out container - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixed amount of tablet taking-out container, taking out tablets of the fixed amount in accordance with the situation. <P>SOLUTION: The fixed amount of tablet taking-out container includes a body part 1 which has a mouth part 1a opened in its top part and forms a tablet accommodating space M therebelow, and a storing part 2 which is arranged at the mouth part of the body part to count the tablets in the accommodating space and discharges only the tablets counted by the tilted posture or the inverted posture of the container. The storing part comprises an under member 2a which is fixed to and held by an inner peripheral wall of the mouth part to form a tablet counting space M<SB>1</SB>by a bulkhead 2a<SB>2</SB>, and an upper member 2b which is mated with the under member to hold the under member in a sealed state while leaving behind a discharging passage r for connecting a tablet discharging port h, a discharging port and the counting space M<SB>1</SB>to each other. A guide rail 3 is provided on the under member, and a guide 4 and a push-button 5 are provided on the upper member. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a quantitative dispensing container for tablets, and is intended to reliably extract a necessary number of tablets without touching them.

  A container containing a tablet such as a cold medicine is usually provided with a screw-on cap at its mouth. To remove a tablet from the container, one hand should be removed after removing the cap. The action of tilting the container with the other hand was taken.

  By the way, in the conventional extraction procedure as described above, it is necessary to take out and put in a tablet several times until the required number is obtained, and it is possible to return the item once touched to the inside of the container again. The present situation is that it is not preferable from the standpoint of maintaining.

As a prior art corresponding to such a situation, a quantitative dispensing container has been proposed in which a measuring stopper is fitted to the mouth and neck of the container body, and only the tablet taken into the measuring stopper is taken out (for example, Patent Document 1).
Japanese Patent No. 3731728

  According to such a quantitative take-out container, a predetermined amount of tablets can be taken out without touching the contents in the container at all, so this kind of container has been regarded as an extremely useful container. . However, although such a container can take out a preset amount (number), it cannot be easily handled, for example, when taking out drugs with different doses depending on the age, leaving room for further improvement. It had been.

  An object of the present invention is to propose a novel quantitative extractor that can reliably extract a desired number of tablets without touching them.

The present invention has a mouth portion that opens at the top, a main body portion that forms a tablet storage space at the lower portion thereof, and a mouth portion of the main body portion. A quantitative dispensing container comprising a reservoir for discharging only tablets weighed in a posture or an inverted posture;
The storage part is fixedly held on the inner peripheral wall of the mouth part, and an under member that forms a tablet measurement space by a partition wall, and a tablet discharge port and a discharge path that connects the discharge port and the measurement space together with the under member. It consists of an upper member that holds the under member in a sealed state,
The under member is provided with an inclined guide rail that forms a groove-shaped cross section and aligns a plurality of tablets in the storage space in a row.
A guide for guiding the tablets aligned on the guide rail along the guide rail to the upper member, and a tablet is pushed in at the inclined end of the guide rail, and the tablets are dropped one by one from the rail opening into the measuring space. It is a fixed quantity taking-out container of the tablet characterized by providing the press button to be made.

  In the quantitative dispensing container having the above-described configuration, the pressing button includes a pressing member that directly presses the tablet, a pressing plate that is integrally connected to the upper end portion of the pressing member, and moves the pressing member up and down, and the pressing plate In addition, the pressing plate can be configured by a spring that is elastically supported, and the pressing plate can be provided with a locking cylinder that prevents the upper plate from being pulled out.

  The pushing member is preferably provided with a notch recess that abuts against the side of the tablet adjacent to the tablet to be pushed to prevent the tablet from being pushed.

  Tablets aligned with the guide rail can be dropped into the measuring space one by one at the inclined end of the rail by a pressing button, and the required number of tablets can be reliably taken out.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described more specifically with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a view schematically showing an embodiment of a quantitative removal container according to the present invention.

  Reference numeral 1 in the figure denotes a main body part that forms a storage space M for tablets. The main body portion 1 has a mouth portion 1a that opens at the top.

  Reference numeral 2 denotes a storage part that is arranged in the mouth part 1a of the main body part 1 and that measures the tablets in the storage space M and discharges only the tablets that are to be measured depending on the tilting or reversing posture of the container.

  The reservoir portion 2 is fitted to the inner peripheral wall of the mouth portion 1a of the main body portion 1 and fixedly held, and the under member 2a is fitted to the under member 2a at an upper portion thereof to seal the under member 2a. It consists of the upper member 2b to hold.

Under member 2a of the reservoir 2, compatible with annular peripheral wall 2a ₁ to the inner wall of the mouth portion 1a, the partition wall 2a forming the reverse dome shape to form a metric space M ₁ are integrally connected to a lower end of the annular wall 2a _{1 2} is constituted by, for upper member 2b, a wall portion 2b ₁ to form a discharge path r of connecting the discharge port h and the discharge port h of the tablet and metric space M ₁ to each other, the wall portion 2b ₁ is configured by a flange portion 2b ₂ that is integrally connected at the upper portion of ₁ and that fits into the upper end recess of the under member 2a to position the wall portion 2b ₁ .

3 is a guide rail shown in the example provided integrally with the annular peripheral wall 2a ₁ of the under member 2a. So that the guide rail 3 (which is of the same shape as the annular peripheral wall 2a ₁₎ forms a open groove type cross section upward, a plurality of tablets in the storage space M may be arranged in a row The rail opening 3b formed at the inclined end 3a is inclined so as to be the lowest. By inclining the guide rail 3, the tablets existing on the guide rail 3 always roll toward the inclined end 3a, so that the tablets can be taken out continuously.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a guide provided on the upper member 2b. The guide 4 is shown as an example formed by a wall portion suspended from the lower surface of the flange portion 2b ₂ of the upper member 2b. The lower end surface of the guide 4 is very slightly above the upper end portion of the tablets aligned on the guide rail 3. It is positioned leaving a small gap, and guides the tablets existing on the guide rail 3 until reaching the rail opening 3b of the inclined end 3a. The guide 4 also has a function of preventing the tablets from coming out of the guide rail 3.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a press button provided on the upper member 2b. The push button 5 is a one which one by one fall a tablet from the rail opening 3b into the metric space M ₁ by pushing the tablet at the inclined end 3a of the guide rails 3, push-in member 5a (plate to push the tablet directly And a pressing plate 5b that is integrally connected to the upper end portion of the pushing member 5a and moves the pushing member 5a up and down (is flush with the upper end surface of the upper member 2b). And a spring 5c that elastically supports the pressing plate 5b together with the pressing member 5a, and a locking cylinder 5d that is integrally connected to the lower surface of the pressing plate 5b to prevent pulling out of the upper member 2b. Among the constituent members constituting the push button 5, the locking cylinder. 5d (protrusions for pullout prevention) enlarged locking portion to the tip 5d ₁ is formed, the pressing plate 5b are most raised position (FIG. In a state as shown in FIG. 1, the guide cylinder portion (standing up so as to surround the hole portion 2 b ₃ ) 2 b _{4 is} engaged with the hole portion 2 b ₃ provided in the upper member 2 b.

  Furthermore, 6 is a notch recessed part provided in the lower end part of the pushing member 5a. The notch recess 6 abuts against the side of the tablet adjacent to the tablet to be pressed when the tablet is pressed, thereby preventing the adjacent tablet from being pressed and dropping the tablets one by one. It is possible.

Quantitative dispenser as constituted above will be one tablet by pressing the push button 5 once falls into the measuring space M _1, so that suffice by simply pressing the push button 5 required number. The body portion 1 is in taking tablets weighing space M ₁ may simply tilting as shown in FIG. 2, thereby discharged to outside the tablet in metric space M ₁ is through the discharge path r, outlet h Is done.

Tilting the body portion 1, the tablets in the storage space M tablet is supplied to the guide rail 3 through a gap formed between the wall portion 2b ₁ and the guide rail 3 of the upper member 2b, the following quantitative extraction Prepared for.

  The mouth portion 1a of the main body portion 1 can be provided with a cap by screwing or undercut engagement (not shown), whereby foreign matter can be prevented from entering from the discharge port h.

The guide rail 3 is shown as a curved shape having the same shape as the annular peripheral wall 2a ₁ , but the guide rail 3 may be linear if possible, and this is not a limitation.

  Further, although the spring 5c that elastically supports the pressing plate 5b together with the pressing member 5a is shown as a separate member in the embodiment, the spring 5c is formed integrally with the pressing plate 5b of the pressing button 5 and hangs down. It is also possible to apply one that stands integrally from the upper member 2b, and there is no limitation on this point.

  It is possible to provide a container capable of quantitative removal according to the situation.

It is the figure which showed embodiment of the fixed quantity extraction container according to this invention. It is the figure which showed the use condition of the taking-out container shown in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main-body part 1a Mouth part 2 Storage part 2a Under member 2b Upper member 3 Guide rail 4 Guide 5 Press button 5a Push member 5b Press plate 5c Spring 5d Locking cylinder 6 Notch recessed part M Storage space M ₁ Measurement space

Claims (3)

A main body part that has a mouth opening at the top and forms a tablet storage space at the bottom, and is placed in the mouth part of the main body part to measure the tablets in the storage space and tilt or reverse the container A quantitative dispensing container comprising a reservoir for discharging only tablets weighed in accordance with
The storage portion is fixedly held on the inner peripheral wall of the mouth portion, and an under member that forms a tablet weighing space by the partition wall, and is joined to the under member to connect the tablet discharge port and the discharge port to the measurement space. It consists of an upper member that holds the under member in a sealed state, leaving each discharge path,
The under member is provided with an inclined guide rail that forms a groove-shaped cross section and aligns a plurality of tablets in the storage space in a row.
A guide that guides the tablets aligned in the guide rail along the guide rail to the upper member, and pushes the tablets at the inclined end of the guide rail, and puts the tablets one by one into the measurement space from the rail opening. A quantitative dispensing container for tablets, which is provided with a push button for dropping. The pressing button includes a pressing member that directly presses the tablet, a pressing plate that is integrally connected to the upper end portion of the pressing member and moves the pressing member up and down, and a spring that elastically supports the pressing plate together with the pressing member,
2. The tablet dispensing container according to claim 1, wherein the pressing plate has a locking cylinder that prevents the pressing plate from being pulled out from the upper member.   3. The tablet dispensing container according to claim 2, wherein the pressing member has a notch recess that abuts against a side of the tablet adjacent to the tablet to be pressed to prevent the tablet from being pressed.

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