JPH0617523Y2 - Medicine bag manufacturing equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of application] The present invention relates to a manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing an appropriately printed medicine bag.

[Conventional technology]

In general, a medicine bag containing various medicines for one prescription is appropriately printed with a patient name, usage, precautions, date, hospital name and the like.

In the manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing the above-mentioned medicine bag, a printer is usually connected to the outlet side of the bag-making machine, and the bag body formed by the bag-making machine is conveyed to the printer to perform appropriate printing in multiple stages. .

The bag making machine conveys a bag material composed of a heat-fusible sheet or a tubular sheet folded in the width direction in one direction for a certain length, and when stopped, seals the bag material in the width direction by a sealing device. In addition, since the seal portion is cut from the bisected position, the productivity is extremely high.

On the other hand, the printer performs printing in multiple stages by alternately performing the operation of moving the print head in the width direction of the bag body to perform the first-stage printing and the operation of transporting the bag body in the constant length and height direction. The processing capacity is extremely low as compared with the processing capacity of the bag-making machine because of the configuration.

[Problems to be solved by the device]

By the way, in the conventional medicine bag manufacturing apparatus, since one printer is connected to one bag-making machine, a bag-making machine with high processing capacity is operated at extremely low speed in accordance with a printer with low processing capacity. The need arises and there is a disadvantage that productivity is low.

Then, this invention makes it a technical subject to solve the above-mentioned inconvenience and to improve the productivity of the medicine bag manufacturing apparatus.

[Means for Solving the Problems]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, in the present invention, a delivery device that continuously delivers a bag, a plurality of printers arranged in one direction on the delivery side of the delivery device, the delivery device, and each printer. Between the
It comprises a course switching device for switching the transfer direction of the bag continuously sent from the sending device and guiding the bag to each printer in a predetermined order.

Here, the delivery device may be a bag-making machine for forming a bag body, or has a stock portion of the bag body formed by the bag-making machine, and bag bodies stacked on the stock portion. It may be a stocker device that continuously sends the sheets one by one.

[Action]

The medicine bag manufacturing apparatus having the above-described configuration operates the course switching device every time the bag is unloaded from the delivery device to change the transfer direction of the bag, and sequentially sends the bags to a plurality of printers for printing processing. Of.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1, the medicine bag manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention,
It has a bag making machine 1 as a bag feeding device. FIG. 2 shows an example of the bag making machine 1, in which a heater device 2 and a cutter device 3 are provided in a transfer path of a heat-fusible sheet a folded in two in the width direction, and the sheet a is omitted from the feed roller. By a constant stroke in one direction, and when the sheet a is stopped, the heater device 2 heat-seals the sheet a in a strip shape over the entire width direction, and the center line of the seal portion substantially coincides with the center line of the cutter device 3. After the sheet a is transferred to, the cutter device 3 is operated to cut the bisected position of the seal portion. By the cutting, a bag body A having one side of the outer circumference as a bag mouth is formed, and the bag body A is carried out from the outlet of the bag making machine 1 by the roller conveyor 4.

Appropriate printing is performed on the bag body a on the outlet side of the bag making machine 2
The printers 10a and 10b are provided on the upper and lower sides.

Here, since the printers 10a and 10b are publicly known printers that perform printing by moving the print head 11 in the width direction of the bag body A, a specific configuration is omitted. This printer 10
The number of a and 10b may be at least two or more.

On the front side of the printers 10a, 10b, conveyor devices 20a, 20b for transporting the bag body A carried out from the bag making machine 1 to the printers 10a, 10b are provided.

In the conveyor devices 20 a and 20 b, an endless belt 22 is spanned between a plurality of rollers 21, a plurality of holding rollers 23 are provided on a carrier side belt of the belt 22, and the belt 22 is driven by a motor 24 to drive the belt 22 of FIG. It is designed to move in the direction of the arrow.

Between the carry-in ends of the conveyor devices 20a and 20b and the outlet of the bag making machine 1, there is provided a course switching device for guiding the bag body A sent from the outlet to the conveyor devices 20a and 20b. The course switching device 30 has a rectangular tube-shaped guide body 31 shown in FIG. 1 disposed between the outlet of the bag making machine 1 and the carry-in ends of the conveyor devices 20a and 20b and located at the outlet side of the bag making machine 1. Is pivotably supported by a pin 32, and the guide body 31 is vertically swung about the pin 32 via a rod 34 which is vertically moved by rotation of a cam 33.

Reference numeral 35 is a motor for rotating the cam 33, and 36 is a guide body 3.
1 and spring 34 for deflecting rod 34 downward.

Now, when the guide body 31 is swung upward, the bag making machine 1
The bag A sent out from the outlet of is guided by the guide body 31 and sent to the upper printer 10a by the conveyor device 20a to be printed.

Further, when the guide body 31 is swung downward, the bag body A is sent from the lower conveyor device 20b to the lower printer 10b for printing processing.

Therefore, each time the bag body A is sent out from the bag making machine 1, the guide body 31 of the course switching device 30 is swung in the vertical direction, so that the bag body A is placed above and below the printers 10a and 10b.
Are alternately sent to and printed. Therefore, the printed bag can be produced very efficiently.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the course switching device 30
Although the guide body 31 is swung in the vertical direction by the rotation of the cam 33, the course switching device 30 is not limited to this.

For example, as shown in FIG. 4, two guide bodies 37, 3
A supporting plate 39 for supporting 8 may be moved up and down by a lifting device 40 such as a cylinder or a solenoid.

Further, in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the bag making machine 1 is shown as the bag feeding device, but it is not limited to this. For example, the stocker device 50 shown in FIG. 5 may be used. Here, in the stocker device 50, a stocker 51 for storing a large number of bag bodies A is arranged in an inclined shape, a delivery roller 53 is provided at a discharge port 52 formed in the upper front portion of the stocker 51, and the stocker 51 is stored in the stocker 51. A large number of the formed bag bodies A are continuously taken out one by one from the upper part due to the contact with the delivery roller 53, and delivered by the pressure roller 54 in contact with the delivery roller 53.

Further, since the uppermost bag body A of the bag bodies A stored in the stocker 51 is constantly brought into contact with the delivery roller 53, the upper portion of the support plate 55 that supports the bag body A in the stocker 51 is swingably supported. The elastic force of the spring 56 is applied to the support plate 55 to push the support plate 55 upward,
5, the bottom plate 57 for supporting the bag A is formed in an arc shape having a center of curvature around the swing center of the support plate 55.

In the case of the embodiment, the course switching device 30 and each printer 1
Although the conveyor devices 20a and 20b are provided between the printers 10a and 10b, the conveyor devices 20a and 20b may be omitted and the bag A sent from the course switching device 30 may be directly sent to the printers 10a and 10b. Good.

[Effect of device]

As described above, according to the medicine bag manufacturing apparatus of the present invention,
Since the bags fed from the bag feeding device are sequentially fed to the plurality of printers, the printed bags can be produced very efficiently.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing an embodiment of a drug bag manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the bag making machine of the above, FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a guide body of the same, and FIG. FIG. 5 is a front view showing another example of the above course switching device, and FIG. 5 is a schematic view showing another embodiment of the above bag feeding device. 1 ... Bag making machine, 10a, 10b ... Printer, 20a, 20b ... Conveyor device, 30 ... Course switching device, 50 ... Stocker device.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A delivery device for continuously delivering a bag body,
A plurality of printers arranged in one direction on the delivery side of the delivery device, and the printers provided between the delivery device and each printer, by switching the transfer direction of the bags continuously delivered from the delivery device. And a course switching device for guiding the bag according to a predetermined order, and a drug bag manufacturing device for the drug bag.