KR100521719B1 - an automatic pill feeder of pill packing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a pill automatic feeding device of the automatic medicine packing machine, and more particularly, the opening and closing plates respectively mounted on the lower portion of the horizontally arranged innumerable storage grooves are configured to be opened by the operation of the X, Y axis, respectively, selected input Only the tablets dropped into the hopper and then automatically supplied to the wrapping paper, while the supply of pills is made quickly and simply while the overall packaging machine configuration is simplified to achieve miniaturization.

According to the present invention, the pills 3a contained in the accommodating grooves 11 provided on the case 1 are dropped into the hopper 40 mounted on the lower portion thereof, and the inside of the wrapping paper 3 is folded and moved in half. In the case of the automatic packaging machine of the system is glued and cut in the sealing device 50 and drawn out through the lower outlet 2 of the case 1 after the packaging is completed, the cover coupled to the upper case (1) ( 10, the receiving grooves 11 are formed in a vertically and horizontally arranged arrangement, and the locking pieces 12a are arranged in the vertical shafts 20 continuously mounted at positions corresponding to the vertical rows of the receiving grooves 11 at the bottom of the cover 10. Opening and closing plate 12 having a) is configured to be opened by the weight under each of the receiving grooves 11, the vertical axis 20 is connected to the rotation axis of the motor 22, respectively, the vertical axis Support plates 21 fixed to 20 support the lower portions of the opening and closing plates 12, respectively. Hanging pieces 30a are formed to protrude from the horizontal shafts 30 continuously mounted at positions corresponding to the horizontal rows of the receiving grooves 11 to support the lower portions of the locking pieces 12a of the opening and closing plates 12, respectively. The opening and closing plate 12 is positioned at the intersection of the vertical axis 20 and the horizontal axis 30, which are horizontally moved horizontally in contact with the eccentric cam 32a arranged on the motor 32 and selectively operated. Only by opening the pill (3a) of the selected receiving groove 11 can be achieved by a pill automatic supply device of the automatic medicine packing machine, characterized in that falling into the hopper (40).

Description

Automatic pill feeder of pill packing machine

The present invention relates to a pill automatic feeding device of the automatic medicine packing machine, and more particularly, the opening and closing plates respectively mounted on the lower portion of the horizontally arranged innumerable storage grooves are configured to be opened by the operation of the X, Y axis, respectively, selected input Only the tablets dropped into the hopper and then automatically supplied to the wrapping paper, while the supply of pills is made quickly and simply while the overall packaging machine configuration is simplified to achieve miniaturization.

In general, hospitals and pharmacies can prepare medicines according to a doctor's prescription, distribute them, and put them in a wrapping paper for packaging.In the present time, the process of manufacturing and packaging medicines is performed by automated machinery. Technology has been proposed.

The above-mentioned automatic packaging machines are manufactured so that tablets and powdered powders can be packed together, so the overall composition is very complicated, making the packaging machine difficult and time consuming, and the price is high. Closures occurred, such as forming very expensive.

In addition, in order to pack the tablets as tablets, the air suction port, which is formed with suction force by the air compressor, has a structure to suck and drop the pills while moving. As the vibrator vibrates the hopper and puts the powdered medicine into the wrapping paper, the entire structure of the automatic packaging machine is complicated but large facilities are occupied and occupy a lot of installation places.

Therefore, large hospitals and pharmacies, except for large hospitals and large pharmacies could not be used in large facilities, so the drug packaging machine could not be produced and sold in large quantities.

Moreover, powdered medicines are also injected into capsules and distributed in the present so that most medicines are made of a mixture of pills and capsules. Could not.

Therefore, since the structure is simple and the cost is low, but the compact size is configured to occupy a small installation place, the proposal of a simple automatic medicine packaging machine of simple structure that can be used even small hospitals or pharmacies is urgently required.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, the object of which is that the opening and closing plates respectively mounted on the bottom of the countless storage grooves arranged horizontally and configured to be opened by the operation of the X, Y axis, respectively, only the tablets of the selected input tray After dropping into the hopper is automatically supplied to the packaging paper is to provide a pill automatic supply device of the automatic medicine packaging machine that can quickly and easily provide a pill while the configuration of the overall packaging machine can be simplified.

A characteristic of the present invention for achieving the above object, the pills (3a) contained in the accommodating grooves 11 provided on the upper case (1) is dropped in the hopper 40 mounted on the lower portion and folded in half In the case of the automatic packaging machine of the system is put into the wrapping paper (3) to be glued and cut in the sealing device 50 and is drawn out through the lower outlet (2) of the case 1 after the packaging is completed, the case (1) In the cover 10 coupled to the upper portion of the receiving grooves 11 are arranged in a vertical and horizontal arrangement, the vertical axis 20 is continuously mounted in a position corresponding to the vertical column of the receiving groove 11 in the lower portion of the cover 10 The opening and closing plate 12 having a locking piece (12a) is arranged in the) is configured to open by the weight under each of the receiving grooves 11, the vertical axis 20 is connected to the rotating shaft of the motor 22 Support plates 21 fixed to the vertical shaft 20 while being rotated forward and reverse, respectively, opening and closing plate 12 ) Supporting the lower portions of the hooks, and the locking pieces 30a protrude from the horizontal shafts 30 that are continuously mounted at positions corresponding to the horizontal rows of the receiving grooves 11 so that the locking pieces 12a of the opening and closing plates 12 are formed. Respectively supporting the lower part of the field, and the horizontal axis 30 is horizontally moved horizontally in contact with the eccentric cam 32a arranged on the motor 32, and the vertical axis 20 and the horizontal axis 30 which are selectively operated cross each other. Only the opening and closing plate 12 located at the point can be achieved by the automatic pill automatic feeding device of the medicine packing machine, characterized in that the pills (3a) of the selected receiving groove 11 is dropped into the hopper (40).

Hereinafter, described in detail by the accompanying drawings a preferred embodiment for achieving the above object is as follows.

1 to 7, as shown in the upper part of the case (1) for wrapping the inner packaging device of the automatic packaging machine is provided with receiving grooves 11, the pills (3a) contained in the receiving grooves (11) Dropped in the hopper 40 attached to the lower portion is to be put in the interior of the wrapping paper (3) which is folded and moved in half.

The wrapping paper 3 into which the pills 3a are inserted is fixed to the bonding roller 51 after the outer surface of the wrapping paper 3 is thermally bonded by the sealing device 50 in which the cylindrical bonding rollers 51 are rotated facing each other. When the cutting is completed by cutting the cutting knife 52 is completed is a system that is discharged through the inclined discharge port 2 formed on the lower side of the case (1).

Of course, the automatic packaging machine made of the above-described configuration is a known technical idea known. However, in the present invention, the most important feature is that only the pills of the storage groove 11 selected by the user among the pills 3a contained in the horizontally arranged storage grooves 11 are discharged into the hopper 40 so as to be packed. It relates to the invention.

That is, the cover 10 is hingedly coupled to the top of the case 1 so as to be opened and closed, and the receiving grooves 11 are vertically drilled in the cover 10 in a vertical and horizontal arrangement.

Vertical shafts 20 are continuously mounted to the lower portion of the cover 10, and the vertical shafts 20 are continuously installed in parallel with positions corresponding to the vertical rows of the receiving grooves 11, respectively. Therefore, the number of the vertical shafts 20 is formed equal to the number of vertical columns of the receiving grooves 11.

Opening and closing plates 12 are arranged on the vertical shafts 20 so that they can be opened by their own weight, and the number of the opening and closing plates 12 is formed to be the same as the number of the receiving grooves 11 to accommodate the receiving grooves. Opening and closing plates 12 are mounted below the 11, respectively.

On one side of the opening and closing plate 12, a locking piece 12a is formed to protrude, and the locking piece 12a is supported by each of the locking pieces 30a of the horizontal axis 30 to be described later, so that the opening and closing plate 12 is It is designed to prevent it from opening while rotating by its own weight.

The vertical shafts 20 are connected to the rotating shaft of the motor 22 in a state in which the vertical shafts 20 are mounted on the frames 23 mounted inside the cover 10 so as to be rotated forward and reverse, respectively.

The support shafts 21 are mounted on the vertical shafts 20 at regular intervals, and the support plates 21 support lower portions of the open / close boards 12 so that the open / close boards 12 are rotated by their own weight. It is prevented. Therefore, the support plate 21, the opening and closing plate 12, the receiving groove 11 is formed in the same number.

Horizontal shafts 30 are continuously mounted to the lower portion of the cover 10, and the horizontal shafts 30 are continuously installed in parallel with positions corresponding to the horizontal rows of the receiving grooves 11, respectively. Therefore, the number of the horizontal shafts 30 is formed to be the same as the number of horizontal rows of the receiving grooves (11).

Locking pieces 30a are formed at predetermined intervals on the horizontal shafts 30, and the locking pieces 30a are opened and closed by supporting lower portions of the locking pieces 12a formed at one side of the opening and closing plates 12, respectively. The plate 12 is prevented from opening while being rotated by its own weight.

A bending piece 31a is formed at one side of the horizontal axis 30, and a spring 31b is mounted at the other side of the horizontal axis 30 so that the horizontal axis 30 can be pulled to the other side, and has a “a” shape. The eccentric cam 32a built in the motor 32 is in contact with the bent bending piece 31a.

When the eccentric cam 32a is rotated forward and backward, the horizontal shaft 30 can be moved to both sides in the horizontal direction while being supported by the spring 31b.

Each of the motors 32 on which the eccentric cam 32a is arranged is fixed to the brackets 33 fixed to the bottom surface of the cover 10.

The horizontal axis 30 has a guide hole 34 of a size corresponding to the moving distance is formed at a predetermined interval, the shaft bolt 35 is screwed to the boss (35a) of the bottom cover 10 guide hole ( 34) to stably support the movement of the horizontal axis (30).

According to the present invention having the above-described configuration, when the user operates the buttons 61 of the control unit 60 provided in the cover 10 and selects the storage grooves 11 arranged in a horizontal direction, the storage grooves 11 are located. The horizontal axis 30 and the vertical axis 20 directly underneath are operated simultaneously.

Therefore, as shown in FIG. 5A, as the horizontal axis 30 positioned in the horizontal row of the receiving groove 11 is pulled to one side by the operation of the eccentric cam 32a, the horizontal axis 30 is illustrated in FIG. 5B. The locking pieces 30a of the moving pieces are also moved away from the locking pieces 12a of the opening and closing plates 12 so that the locking pieces 12a of the opening and closing plates 12 in a row are located on the locking pieces of the horizontal shaft 30 ( The state has deviated from 30a).

However, the opening and closing plates 12 are supported by the support plates 21 mounted on the vertical shaft 20 and are not opened. At this time, when the support plate 21 is rotated downward while the vertical axis 20 positioned in the vertical column of the selected storage groove 11 rotates, the lower portion of the selected storage groove 11 at the point where the horizontal axis 30 and the vertical axis 20 intersect. Since only the blocking opening and closing plate 12 is rotated downward by its own weight, the pills 3a contained in the storage groove 11 selected by the user are dropped and put into the wrapping paper 3 through the hopper 40. .

At this time, even if the support shaft 21 of the same number as the storage groove of the vertical row is rotated while the vertical axis 20 is rotated to block the lower portion of the storage grooves 11 except for the storage groove 11 intersected with the horizontal axis 30. The opening and closing plates 12 are supported by the engaging pieces 30a of the other horizontal shafts 30 and do not open.

Therefore, while only the opening and closing plate 12 positioned at the intersection of the vertical axis 20 and the horizontal axis 30 that are selectively operated is opened, the pills 3a of the receiving groove 11 are dropped and packed into the hopper 40. .

Then, the pills 3a collected at the lower outlet 41 of the hopper 40 are opened as the opening plate 42a mounted at the lower portion thereof rotates by the operation of the motor 42. It is put into the folded wrapping paper (3).

Subsequently, when the motor 42 rotates in reverse, the opening plate 42a closes the outlet 41, and when a signal for closing the outlet 41 by the operation of the motor 42 is transmitted to the control unit 60, the vertical axis ( 20 and the motors 22 and 32 that operate the horizontal axis 30 are rotated in reverse, and the horizontal axis 30 and the vertical axis 20 that have been rotated are returned to their original state.

In this way, the signal to open and close the exit 41 is transmitted to the control unit 60, the operation of opening and closing the opening and closing plate 12 is automatically controlled according to the present invention to provide a patient for three days of medicine to provide a button (61) If you press once only the tablets (3a) are sequentially put in the nine storage grooves 11 selected by the program previously input to the control unit 60, so that nine bags of medicine can be automatically packaged Its use is very convenient.

In the above-described present invention, a pharmacist prepares medicine according to a doctor's prescription and inserts the medicine into the receiving grooves 11 arranged in the cover 10, and then operates only the button 61 of the control unit 60. Since the pills 3a contained in the grooves 11 are dropped and quickly and easily packaged, they are not only very convenient to use, but also have a very compact size that is about the size of a copier, while the overall structure is very simple. It can be used not only in pharmacies and hospitals, but also in small pharmacies, etc., which allows the mass production of automatic medicine packaging machines, which further lowers the overall manufacturing cost.

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been illustrated and described above, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments without departing from the spirit of the present invention as claimed in the claims. Various modifications can be made by those skilled in the art, and such modifications are intended to fall within the scope of the appended claims.

In the present invention as described above, when a doctor's prescription is input to a computer, a pharmacist sees a prescription in a medicine dispensing room or a nearby pharmacy of a hospital connected by a dedicated line or on-line, and prepares a medicine to the cover 10. In the pre-prepared state by putting in the arranged receiving grooves 11, when the patients who have been treated come to receive the medicine, they check the number classified according to the patient's name and operate only the button 61 of the control unit 60. Since the pills 3a contained in the grooves 11 are dropped and packaged quickly and easily, they are very convenient to use and shorten the waiting time of patients. It is possible to build a three-dimensional and comprehensive service to patients.

In addition, the drug packaging machine according to the present invention in the pharmacy that does not have a network network is to be automatically packaged by pressing the button 61 after the pill (3a) in the receiving grooves 11 according to the prescription It can be used both on-line and off-line, and can be utilized in various ways.

1 is a perspective view illustrating an embodiment of the present invention,

2 is a perspective view illustrating a state in which a cover is opened in FIG. 1;

3A and 3B are cross-sectional views illustrating one embodiment of the present invention;

4 is an exploded perspective view showing the main part of the present invention;

5a and 5b are perspective views illustrating the operating state of the present invention,

6A and 6B are cross-sectional views illustrating an operating state of the present invention;

Figure 7 is a perspective view showing the bottom of the lid according to the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on main parts of drawing

1 case 2 outlet

3: wrapping paper 3a: pills

10: cover 11: receiving groove

12: opening and closing plate 12a, 30a: locking piece

20: vertical axis 21: support plate

22, 32, 42: motor 23: frame

30: horizontal axis 31a: bending piece

31b: spring 32a: eccentric cam

33: bracket 34: guide ball

35: Axial Bolt 35a: Boss

40: Hopper 41: Exit

42a: opening plate 50: sealing device

51: bonding roller 52: cutting knife

60: control unit 61: button

Claims (3)

Pills 3a contained in the accommodating grooves 11 provided at the upper part of the case 1 are dropped into the hopper 40 mounted at the lower part thereof and folded into the wrapping paper 3, which is folded and moved in half. In the automatic packaging machine of the system which is glued and cut at 50) and drawn out through the lower outlet 2 of the case 1 after the packaging is completed, In the cover 10 coupled to the upper case 1, the receiving grooves 11 are formed in a vertically and horizontally arranged opening, and are continuously installed at a lower portion of the cover 10 at a position corresponding to the vertical row of the receiving grooves 11. The opening and closing plate 12 having the engaging piece 12a is arranged in the vertical shaft 20 to be opened by the weight under each of the receiving grooves 11, the vertical shaft 20 of the motor 22 Support plates 21 fixed to the vertical shafts 20 while being connected to the rotary shafts and rotated forward and reverse, respectively, support the lower portions of the opening and closing plates 12, and are continuously mounted at positions corresponding to the horizontal rows of the receiving grooves 11. Engaging members 30a are formed to protrude from the horizontal shafts 30 to support the lower portions of the locking pieces 12a of the opening and closing plates 12, and the eccentric cam 32a in which the horizontal shafts 30 are arranged on the motor 32. ) Is horizontally moved in contact with the horizontal direction, and the intersection of the vertical axis 20 and the horizontal axis 30 selectively actuated Automatic opening of the pill automatic packaging device, characterized in that the pill (3a) of the selected receiving groove 11 is dropped into the hopper 40 while only the opening and closing plate 12 located at the point is opened. The bending shaft 31a is formed at one side of the horizontal axis 30, and the spring 31b is mounted at the other side of the horizontal axis 30, and the horizontal axis 30 is pulled to the other side. The automatic feeding device for a pill packaging machine, characterized in that the bending piece (31a) bent in the shape is in contact with the eccentric cam (32a) arranged in the motor 32 is moved horizontally in the horizontal direction. According to claim 1, The horizontal shaft 30 is formed with a guide hole 34 of the size corresponding to the moving distance, the shaft bolt 35 is screwed to the boss 35a of the bottom surface of the cover 10 is a guide hole Is inserted into the (34) pill automatic packaging device of the automatic medicine packing machine, characterized in that to support the movement of the horizontal axis (30) stably.