JPH09290013A - Tablet takeout device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently take out PTP packed tablets from the PTP packages. SOLUTION: A base member 10 having a receiving part 12 at one end is provided with guide rods 15 and 13 via stoppers 14 and 14. Furthermore, the guide rods 13 and 13 properly position PTP packed tablets above the receiving part 12 via the stoppers 14 and 14, and an operation member 20 works to forcedly pushed the tablets from the PTP packages into the receiving part 12 and the tablets can be thereby taken out.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a tablet take-out device used when a PTP-packaged tablet is opened and taken out from a package in a hospital, a pharmacy or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In order to take out a PTP-packaged tablet without damaging a fingertip, a nail, etc., a tablet taking-out device is sometimes used (Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 6-83029).

This is composed of a base member having a hole slightly larger than a tablet at its tip, and an operating member having a pressing rod penetrating through the hole vertically provided at the tip. The base member and the operating member are provided. Are connected so as to be openable and closable in a V shape. A container for storing tablets is detachably attached to the base member. Therefore, in this product, the PTP-packaged tablet is visually positioned above the hole of the base member, and the operating member is pushed to open the package through the pressing rod, and the tablet is inserted into the container through the hole. You can take it out.

[0004]

According to the prior art, when the user takes out the PTP-packaged tablet, the user must visually position the tablet correctly at the position of the hole, and the work efficiency is extremely poor. There was a problem.

Therefore, in view of the problems of the prior art, an object of the present invention is to provide a guide for positioning a PTP-packaged tablet on the base member, so that the tablet can be taken out from the PTP package extremely efficiently. It is to provide a take-out device.

[0006]

The structure of the present invention for achieving the above object has a base member having a receiving portion at its tip and a holding portion facing the receiving portion at its tip, and can be freely opened and closed on the base member. The base member has a guide for positioning the PTP-packaged tablets above the receiving portion.

The guide may be a guide rod projecting above the receiving portion through a gap, and the guide rod may be provided with a stopper for regulating the insertion depth of the PTP-packaged tablets. it can.

Further, the pressing portion has a plurality of intersecting pressing ribs, and the tablet can be pushed into the receiving portion via the pressing ribs, and the pressing rib can be formed with an edge projecting into the receiving portion. it can.

Further, the operating member can be integrally formed with the base member through the thin bent portion.

One of the base member and the operating member is
It is possible to form a spring facing the other and further form a hook that engages the other.

[0011]

According to the structure of the present invention, since the base member has a guide for positioning the PTP-packaged tablets above the receiving portion, the tablets positioned by the guide by pushing the operating member. Can be accurately taken out into the receiving portion. This is because the guide can guide the blister portion of the PTP package that stores the tablets above the receiving portion and correctly position the tablet above the receiving portion.

[0012] In addition, PTP (press through
h pack) packaging is a type of blister package in which a bulging portion with a contour that is substantially adapted to the shape of a tablet, a so-called blister portion, is formed on a plastic sheet, and the blister portion stores the tablet to form a flat sheet. part,
That is, it refers to a package in which the flange portion of the blister portion is heat-sealed with the aluminum foil as a mount. The packaging can be opened and the tablets can be taken out by crushing the blister portion by an external force to deform the blister and breaking the aluminum foil by the tablets.

The guide, which is composed of a guide rod protruding above the receiving portion through the gap, easily guides the tablet above the receiving portion through the blister portion by inserting the flange portion of the PTP package into the gap. be able to.

When a stopper is attached to the guide rod, when the PTP-packed tablet is inserted along the guide rod, the end of the flange portion comes into contact with the stopper to regulate the insertion depth, so that the tablet is more easily inserted. To the proper position.

When the pressing portion has a plurality of pressing ribs,
The pressing rib makes line contact with the blister portion of the PTP package, and concentrates the pressing force of the pressing portion to easily deform the blister portion. Therefore, when the tablet is taken out from the PTP package, the operation member has a small required operation force and can be used easily.

When forming the edge on the pressing rib, the edge engages with the blister portion of the PTP package to prevent the tablets contained in the blister portion from being inadvertently moved. Therefore, in combination with the edge protruding above the receiving portion, the tablet after opening can be accurately pushed into the receiving portion and stored in the receiving portion.

If the operating member and the base member are integrally molded via the thin-walled bent portion, the whole can be manufactured at once and can be mass-produced at low cost.

If a spring is formed on one of the base member and the operating member, the operating member can be automatically returned to the open position each time the pushing operation is performed via the spring. Prevents the operation member from opening more than necessary with respect to the base member.

[0019]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

The tablet extracting device has a thin bent portion 31.
The base member 10 and the operation member 20 are openably and closably connected via the (FIG. 1). The base member 10 and the operating member 20 are integrally formed of a suitable plastic material.

The base member 10 is constructed by forming a receiving portion 12 and guide rods 13, 13 at the tip of an elongated plate 11 (FIGS. 1 and 2). The plate 11
Has a square hole 11a formed on the receiving portion 12 side.

The receiving portion 12 is a bottomed elliptic cylindrical container having a shorter diameter shorter than the width of the plate 11. Inside the receiving portion 12, a plurality of ribs 12a, 12a ... Are formed in a cross shape. ing. Each rib 12a is bent upward from the bottom of the receiving portion 12 toward the periphery. The top surface of the receiving portion 12 is formed flush with the surface of the plate 11. The guide rods 13 are provided on both sides of the receiving portion 12 so as to project in parallel with the upper surface of the receiving portion 12 via stoppers 14 formed upward on the left and right ends of the plate 11. The guide rods 13, 13 form a gap δ with the upper surface of the receiving portion 12, respectively, and the distance between the guide rods 13, 13 substantially corresponds to the width of the plate 11.

The operating member 20 is a plate member having the same width as that of the base member 10, and is constituted by forming a holding portion 22 at the tip of a plate 21 (FIG. 1). On the side of the pressing portion 22 of the plate 21, the J corresponding to the square hole 11a of the base member 10 is provided.
A character-shaped hook 21a is provided so as to project, and a spring 21b that is bent and rises diagonally is formed on the bent portion 31 side. The plate 21 has a long hole 21c corresponding to the spring 21b. The pressing portion 22 has a pressing rib 22 corresponding to the ribs 12a, 12a of the receiving portion 12.
A and 22a are formed to intersect each other in a cross shape, and edges 22a1 and 22a1 are formed on each pressing rib 22a at the same distance from the center of intersection of the pressing ribs 22a and 22a. The pressing ribs 22a have edges 22a1 and 22a1.
The space between a1 is shallowly concave. In addition, a pressing surface 22b having a diameter sufficiently larger than the width of the plate 21 is attached to the back surface of the pressing portion 22, and the upper surface of the pressing surface 22b is formed in a shallow concave shape (FIG. 3).

The bent portion 31 is formed sufficiently thin with respect to the plates 11 and 21 of the base member 10 and the operating member 20 (FIG. 4). That is, the bent portion 31 can connect the operation member 20 to the base member 10 in an openable and closable manner (FIG. 3).

Therefore, the operating member 20 is bent with respect to the base member 10 by bending the bent portion 31 at an acute angle and inserting the tip of the hook 21a into the square hole 11a to lock the hook on the back side of the plate 11. The entire length can be folded, and at this time, the holding portion 22 of the operation member 20 faces the receiving portion 12 of the base member 10 (solid line in the figure). The spring 21b contacts the surface of the plate 11 of the base member 10 to urge the operating member 20 in the opening direction, and the hook 21a can hold the operating member 20 in the open position.

The operating member 20 in the open position has the pressing surface 2
By pressing down the pressing portion 22 toward the receiving portion 12 via 2b (in the direction of arrow K1 in the figure), the plate 21 can be closed to the closed position in which it closely contacts the plate 11 (two-dot chain line in the figure). At this time, each edge 22a1 of the pressing portion 22 projects into the receiving portion 12 (two-dot chain line in FIGS. 3 and 5), and the spring 21b extends linearly and is accommodated in the elongated hole 21c. Further, by removing the external force, the operation member 20 can be opened to the open position via the spring 21b and can be returned to the open position via the hook 21a.

Such a tablet take-out device is used when taking out the PTP-packed tablets S from the PTP pack H (FIGS. 2 and 5). The PTP package H is formed with blister parts H1, H1 ... For containing the tablets S, and a flange part H2 is formed around each blister part H1. Further, the blister parts H1, H1 ... Together with the flange parts H2, H2.
Closed by 3.

Then, when the PTP package H is moved in the direction of arrow K2 in FIG. 2, an arbitrary flange portion H of the PTP package H is obtained.
2 can be inserted above the receiving portion 12 via a gap δ formed between the guide rods 13 and 13 and the upper surface of the receiving portion 12. At this time, the guide rod 13,
13 guides the tablet S above the receiving portion 12 via the blister portion H1, and the stoppers 14 and 14 have the flange portion H2.
By contacting the ends of the tablets S (two-dot chain line in FIG. 2), the insertion depth of the tablets S can be regulated and the tablets S can be accurately positioned above the receiving portion 12.

Further, in this way, the tablets S receive the tablets 12
When it is positioned above, the operating member 20 is pushed to lower the holding portion 22 (arrow K1 in FIG. 5).
Direction), the pressing ribs 22a, 22a crush the blister portion H1 to deform it and the aluminum foil H through the tablet S.
It is possible to break through 3 and push the tablet S into the receiving portion 12 (two-dot chain line in the figure). At this time, the edge 22a1,
22a1 ... Prevents the tablet S from moving carelessly by engaging with the tablet S via the top portion of the blister portion H1, and reliably guides the tablet S into the receiving portion 12. In addition, the tablets S stored in the receiving portion 12 have ribs 12a, 1
It is guided to the central portion of the receiving portion 12 via 2a.

Therefore, when one tablet is taken out into the receiving portion 12 in this way, the operating member 20 is returned to the open position and the tablet S in the receiving portion 12 is discharged, and another blister portion of the PTP package H is discharged. H1 may be inserted above the receiving portion 12 and the same procedure may be repeated thereafter.

In the above description, the overall shape of the receiving portion 12 may be formed in an arbitrary shape such as a circular shape or a polygonal shape, corresponding to the shape of the tablet S, in addition to the elliptical shape. In addition, receiving part 1
2 does not have a bottom portion or ribs 12a, 12a ...
It may be a simple guide tube.

On the other hand, the guide rods 13 and 13 together with the stoppers 14 and 14 form guides for positioning the tablets S packaged in PTP above the receiving portion 12, which are provided on both sides of the receiving portion 12. Instead of forming a book,
Only one may be formed on one side of the receiving portion 12. Also,
The hook 21a may be provided on the surface of the base member 10 at this time, and at this time, the square hole 11a is formed on the operation member 20 side. Further, the spring 21b and the elongated hole 21c may be formed on the base member 10 side instead of the operation member 20.

[0033]

As described above, according to the present invention, the base member is provided with the guide for positioning the PTP-packaged tablets above the receiving portion, so that the base member can remove the tablets from the PTP package. Since the tablet can be positioned at an appropriate position above the receiving portion via the guide, the tablet can be positioned very easily, and the working efficiency can be greatly improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the overall configuration

FIG. 2 is an enlarged perspective explanatory view of a main part.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of an operation (1).

FIG. 4 is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken along line XX of FIG.

[Fig. 5] Operation explanatory diagram (2)

[Explanation of symbols]

 S ... Tablet δ ... Gap 10 ... Base member 12 ... Receiving part 13 ... Guide rod 14 ... Stopper 20 ... Operating member 21a ... Hook 21b ... Spring 22 ... Pressing part 22a ... Pressing rib 22a1 ... Edge 31 ... Bending part

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A base member having a receiving portion at its tip, and an operating member having a holding portion facing the receiving portion at its tip and openably and closably connected to the base member, wherein the base member is a PTP. A tablet take-out device having a guide for positioning the packaged tablet above the receiving portion. 2. The tablet extracting device according to claim 1, wherein the guide is a guide rod protruding above the receiving portion through a gap. 3. The tablet take-out device according to claim 2, wherein the guide rod is provided with a stopper for regulating the insertion depth of the PTP-packaged tablets. 4. The pressing portion has a plurality of intersecting pressing ribs, and the tablet is pressed into the receiving portion via the pressing ribs. Tablet extractor. 5. The tablet take-out device according to claim 4, wherein the pressing rib is formed with an edge projecting into the receiving portion. 6. The tablet extracting device according to claim 1, wherein the operating member is integrally formed with the base member via a thin bent portion. 7. One of the base member and the operating member,
7. The tablet extracting device according to claim 1, wherein a spring facing the other is formed. 8. One of the base member and the operating member,
The tablet dispensing device according to claim 7, wherein a hook that engages with the other is formed.