KR100650286B1 - Method and apparatus for automatically packaging medicine powder - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and a device for automatically packing medicinal powders are provided to prevent the medicinal powder from being unequally packed by continuously and exactly packing the fixed amount of the medicinal powders and to increase packing speed by regulating the falling amount of the medicinal powders. The method for automatically packing medicinal powders comprises the steps of: opening a lower side of a main hopper to discharge the medicinal powder input into the main hopper(S1); finely dropping the medicinal powder after continuously transferring the medicinal powder discharged from the main hopper in a horizontal direction(S2); calculating the weight of the medicinal powder with collecting the falling medicinal powder(S21); discharging the medicinal powders at the same time if the amount of the collected medicinal powder corresponds to a pre-set dose and continuously executing a discharge operation(S3); and continuously sealing and packing the medicinal powder quantitatively discharged in a dose, in a packing paper(S4).

Description

Method and apparatus for automatically packaging powder powder {Method and apparatus for automatically packaging medicine powder}

1 is a block diagram showing a packaging method according to the present invention,

2 is a schematic front sectional view of a packaging apparatus according to the present invention;

3 is a schematic side cross-sectional view of a packaging apparatus according to the present invention;

4 is a schematic plan sectional view of a packaging apparatus according to the present invention;

5 to 8 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the main portion showing an operating state of the present invention,

9 is a schematic front sectional view showing a conventional powdered medicine automatic packaging device,

10 is an enlarged view illustrating main parts of FIG. 9;

* Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings

10: main hopper

20: main hopper opening and closing part

   21: insertion tube 22: insertion tube support member

   23: hopper opening and closing plate 24: reciprocating moving part

   25 connection member 26 first electronic balance

   27: display unit

30: fine dropping part

   31: horizontal transfer plate 32: vibrator

40: fixed amount discharge unit

   41: collection hopper 42: second electronic balance

   43: collection hopper opening and closing part

50: sealed packing

60: falling amount control unit

   61: control panel 62: angular movement unit

The present invention relates to a powdered medicine automatic packaging method and apparatus, and more particularly, to a powdered powder automatic packaging method and apparatus for making a fine and smooth dropping of powdered medicine to continuously and precisely packaged powdered medicine.

In general, the powdered medicine automatic packaging device refers to a device that continuously packs powdered powdered powder of powdered powder at a dose.

FIG. 9 is a schematic front sectional view showing a conventional powdered medicine automatic packaging device, and FIG. 10 is an enlarged view illustrating main parts of FIG. 9.

As shown in the drawing, the conventional powdered medicine automatic packaging device dispenses powdered medicine and drops the powdered medicine feeder 100 once, and the sealing packaging unit for continuously packaging the powdered medicine dropped by the powdered medicine feeder 100 by one dose. And a control unit 300 for controlling the powdered medicine feeder 100 and the sealing packaging unit 200.

The powdered medicine feeder 100 has a main hopper 101 into which the entire powdered medicine is injected, an electronic balance 102 that calculates the weight of the entire powdered medicine injected into the main hopper 101 and inputs it to the controller 300, and the main Opening and closing the lower end of the hopper 101 is a continuous discharge unit 103 for discharging the powdered medicine injected into the main hopper 101 continuously and finely discharged from the weight information of the powdered medicine input by the electronic balance (102) And a collecting dropping unit 104 controlled by the control unit 300 for sensing the quantity and falling into the discharge hopper 105 after collecting the powdered medicine discharged through the continuous discharge unit 103 by one dose.

The powdered medicine feeder 100 discharges the powdered medicine injected into the main hopper 101 by the continuous discharge unit 103 continuously, and collects the powdered medicine continuously discharged in a quantitative manner by the dropping unit 104. After that, by dropping, it is continuously immersed in the wrapping paper of the sealed packaging part 200 through the discharge hopper 105, and the sealing packaging part 200 is continuously sealed by heat sealing the powdered powder contained in the wrapping paper as described above. Pack it.

However, the prior art as described above has the following problems.

As described above, when the powdered medicine introduced into the main hopper is in the form of large particles, fine and continuous discharge is smoothly performed by the continuous discharge unit, but when the powdered medicine particles are in the form of very small fine powder, they are aggregated together and smoothly through the continuous discharge unit. There is a problem that can not be discharged.

As described above, when the powdered medicine is in the form of fine powder, it is not easily discharged by the continuous discharge part from the main hopper but is agglomerated or unevenly discharged, so that the continuous and precise packaging of the powdered medicine is not made smoothly.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in order to solve the conventional problems as described above, the object of the present invention is a powder medicine automatic packaging method and apparatus for the powder medicine of the quantitative powder to be continuously and precisely packaged so that the fall of the powdered medicine is smooth and smooth In providing.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a powdered medicine operating packaging method and apparatus to increase the packaging speed by adjusting the amount of powdered powder drops depending on the amount of powdered medicine.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a powdered medicine automatic packaging method and apparatus that allows the operator to recognize the total amount of powdered medicine added smoothly.

In order to achieve the object of the present invention as described above, automatic powder packaging method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a main hopper opening step of opening the lower portion of the main hopper so that the powdered medicine injected into the main hopper; A fine dropping step of finely dropping the powdered medicine discharged from the main hopper after horizontally moving continuously; A collecting and weighing step of calculating the collected weight while collecting the finely dropped powdered medicine; When the amount of the powdered powder collected is a predetermined dose once discharged at a time and quantitative discharge step of performing such discharge continuously; A sealing packaging step of sealingly packing the powdered medicine discharged in a quantitative manner one by one in a packaging paper continuously; It is characterized by comprising.

In addition, a drop amount adjusting step of adjusting the amount of falling of the powdered medicine falling in accordance with the amount of the single dose set in advance after the fine drop step; It further comprises.

In addition, a weighing display step of calculating the total weight of the powdered medicine put into the main hopper prior to the opening of the main hopper and displaying the calculated amount to the outside; It further comprises.

In order to achieve the object of the present invention as described above, the powdered medicine automatic packaging device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention is a powdered medicine and the main hopper detachably provided on the upper surface of the main body; A main hopper opening and closing portion for opening and closing a lower portion of the main hopper so that the powdered medicine injected into the main hopper is discharged; A fine dropping portion dropping finely after continuously transporting the powdered medicine discharged downward while the main hopper is opened by the main hopper opening and closing portion; A quantitative discharge unit for quantitatively discharging the powdered medicine falling by the micro-falling unit and continuously discharging it in a single dose; A sealing packaging unit for continuously sealing and packing the powdered medicine discharged by one dose by the metered discharge unit in a wrapping paper; It is characterized by including.

In addition, the main hopper opening and closing portion, the insertion tube is inserted into the lower end of the main hopper vertically, the insertion tube support member provided on the upper surface of the main body to support the insertion tube, and to open and close the lower end of the insertion tube And a reciprocating part mounted on one side of the hopper opening and closing plate to reciprocate and move the hopper opening and closing plate to one side while being in close contact with the bottom surface of the insertion tube.

In addition, the main hopper opening and closing portion, the connecting member is mounted on one side of the insertion pipe support member, the first electronic balance for mounting the other end of the connecting member and calculates the total weight of the powdered medicine injected into the main hopper, And a display unit connected to the first electronic balance and an electrical signal to display the result measured by the first electronic balance to the outside.

In addition, the fine dropping portion, the horizontal transfer plate provided horizontally on the main body corresponding to the lower portion of the main hopper, and the horizontal transfer plate so that the powdered medicine is finely transferred to the upper surface of the horizontal transfer plate after falling finely It characterized in that it comprises a vibrator, to vibrate.

In addition, the fixed amount discharge portion, the first and the collecting hopper which is provided to the inside of the main body corresponding to the lower end of the micro-dropping portion, and is mounted on one side of the collecting hopper to calculate the weight of the powdered medicine collected by the collecting hopper It characterized in that it comprises a two electronic balance, and the collection hopper opening and closing portion which is installed inside the main body to one side of the collection hopper to open and close the collection hopper.

In addition, the drop amount adjusting unit is installed in the fine drop portion so that the falling amount of the powdered medicine falling through the fine drop portion; It further comprises.

In addition, the fall amount adjusting unit, the control plate is provided to be in close contact with the vertical portion of the powdered medicine is transported to the upper surface of the fine drop portion, and the angular movement portion is installed on the top of the control plate to angular movement of the control plate, characterized in that it comprises It is done.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing a packaging method according to the present invention.

As shown in this, the powdered medicine automatic packaging method is a main hopper opening step (S1) for opening the main hopper to which the powdered medicine is injected, fine dropping step (S2) to finely drop the powdered medicine discharged from the main hopper, and fine And a collecting and measuring step of collecting and measuring powdered powder falling down, a quantitative discharging step (S3) of continuously collecting and discharging, and a sealing packaging step (S4) of continuously packing the powdered medicine discharged in a single dose. And, the steps are sequentially made a stable and precise packaging of the powdered medicine.

The main hopper opening step (S1) refers to a step of opening the lower portion of the main hopper to discharge the powdered medicine injected into the main hopper. That is, when the injection of the powdered medicine to be packaged into the main hopper is completed by the operator, when the worker starts the packaging operation after setting the packing water and the packing capacity, the powdered medicine is discharged while the lower portion of the main hopper is opened.

In addition, the fine drop step (S2) refers to the step of dropping finely after the continuous horizontal transfer of the powdered medicine discharged from the main hopper after the main hopper opening step (S1), this step is discharged from the main hopper The powdered medicines are transported horizontally so that the powdered medicines are continuously dropped in a predetermined amount in a state in which the powdered medicines are prevented from being aggregated.

In addition, the collecting and weighing step refers to a step of calculating the collected weight while collecting the powdered powder dropped finely by the fine drop step (S2), this step is to calculate the weight while collecting the powdered powder dropped It is to be collected until it is a batch.

In addition, the quantitative discharging step (S3) refers to a step of discharging at a time when the amount of powdered medicine collected in the collection and weighing step is a predetermined dose prescribed by the operator and performing such collection and discharging continuously. This step is to discharge once in a single dose set by the collection and metering, and to be discharged continuously by one dose by repeating such discharge.

In addition, the sealed packaging step (S4) refers to a step of continuously sealing packaging the powdered medicine continuously discharged once in a quantitative manner by the quantitative discharge step (S3) one by one on the packaging.

In addition, the present packaging method is a drop amount adjusting step (S21) for adjusting the falling amount of the powdered medicine dropped by the fine drop step (S2) corresponding to the amount of the dose once set in advance after the fine drop step (S2) More).

The drop amount adjusting step (S21) is set by the operator in advance when the amount of once-dose to be packed is large, that is, when the amount of once-packed amount increases the amount of powdered medicine dropped and the amount of the one-packed dose is less When the amount of powdered powder is reduced, the powdered powder is packaged more precisely and quickly.

In addition, the present packaging method further includes a weighing display step S0 of calculating the total weight of the powdered medicine put into the main hopper before the opening of the main hopper S1 and displaying the total amount of the calculated powdered medicine to the outside. do.

The measurement display step S0 is to allow the operator to recognize the total amount of powdered medicines put into the main hopper so as to smoothly set the number of powdered medicines and the weight of powdered medicines to be packed in each medicine.

2 is a schematic front sectional view of a packaging apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 3 is a schematic side sectional view of a packaging apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a schematic plan sectional view of the packaging apparatus according to the present invention.

As shown in this, the powdered medicine automatic packaging device is the main hopper 10 is powder powder is inserted and detachably provided on the upper surface of the main body (B), and the main hopper opening and closing portion for opening and closing the lower portion of the main hopper 10 ( 20) and the powdered medicine dropped by the fine dropping portion 30 and the fine dropping portion 30 to drop finely after continuously transporting the powdered medicine discharged downward while the main hopper 10 is opened horizontally A quantitative discharge unit 40 for quantitatively discharging and quantitatively discharging by collecting a single dose, and a sealed packaging unit for continuously sealing and packing the powdered medicine discharged by the single dose by the quantitative discharge unit 40 in a wrapping paper continuously (50). ).

The main hopper 10 is formed in a cylindrical shape with a lower portion is detachably provided on the upper surface of the main body (B), it is easy to put the powdered medicine while making it easy to replace itself.

In addition, the main hopper opening and closing part 20 is an insertion tube 21 is inserted into the upper surface of the main body (B) to support the insertion tube 21 and the insertion tube 21, the lower end of the main hopper 10 is vertically inserted The hopper opening and closing plate 23 and the hopper opening and closing plate 23 is provided to be slidably close to the lower surface of the insertion tube 21 to open and close the support member 22, the lower end of the insertion tube 21, and the hopper opening and closing plate 23 It includes a reciprocating portion 24 mounted on one side of the hopper opening and closing plate 23 to reciprocate to one side.

The main hopper opening and closing part 20 by opening the lower end of the insertion tube 21 by moving the hopper opening and closing plate 23 to one side while the reciprocating moving part 24 is operated during the packaging of the powdered medicine, the insertion tube 21 While the lower end of the main hopper 10 is inserted into the opening is to be discharged to the lower portion of the powdered medicine.

On the contrary, when the packaging of the powdered medicine is completed, the reciprocating moving part 24 is operated again to move the hopper opening and closing plate 23 to the initial position to close the insertion tube 21 at the lower end.

In addition, the main hopper opening and closing part 20 is a powder member injected into the main hopper 10 and the connection member 25, one end is mounted on one side of the insertion pipe support member 22, the other end of the connection member 25 is mounted The display device further includes a first electronic scale 26 for calculating the total weight of the first electronic scale 26 and a display unit 27 connected to the first electronic scale 26 by an electrical signal.

The connecting member 25 is supported by the insertion tube support member 22 and the insertion tube 21 and the main hopper 10 and the hopper opening and closing plate 23 and the reciprocating portion 24 in a lifted state. In order to accurately calculate the total weight of the powdered medicine injected into the main hopper 10 through the first electronic balance 26.

As such, the total weight of the powdered medicine measured by the first electronic balance 26 is displayed to the outside through the display unit 27 provided on the outside of the main body B, whereby the operator puts the powdered medicine into the main hopper 10. The total weight can be easily recognized, making it easy to set the number of packaged medicines and the weight of each medicine. The display unit 27 may be, for example, a display device such as a monitor or LCD that can display numbers externally.

In addition, the fine drop portion 30 is a horizontal transfer plate 31 provided horizontally in the body (B) corresponding to the lower portion of the main hopper 10, and the vibrator 32 for vibrating the horizontal transfer plate 31 ). The fine drop portion 30 is vibrating the horizontal transfer plate 31 by the vibrator 32, the powdered medicine discharged from the main hopper 10 to the horizontal transfer plate 31 of the horizontal transfer plate 31 Spread from the upper surface to move to one side and then to fall finely in a certain amount.

The powdered medicine is dropped by the fine drop portion 30 in the downward direction at the end of the horizontal transfer plate 31 in a uniform amount smoothly without aggregation even when the particles are fine particles.

In addition, the quantitative discharge part 40 is a collecting hopper 41 which is provided to the inside of the main body (B) corresponding to the lower end side of the horizontal transfer plate 31 of the fine drop portion 30, and the collecting hopper ( The second electronic balance 42 mounted on one side of the 41 and the collection hopper opening and closing portion 43 installed inside the main body B to one side of the collection hopper 41 to open and close the collection hopper 41. ).

The quantitative discharge unit 40 calculates the weight collected by the second electronic balance 42 while collecting the powdered medicine that falls in a predetermined amount at the end of the horizontal transfer plate 31 to the collecting hopper 41, When the collected weight is a predetermined dose, that is, a predetermined dose, the collecting hopper opening and closing part 43 is operated to temporarily open the lower end of the collecting hopper 41 to discharge the collected powdered medicine at once.

The quantitative discharge part 40 continuously opens and closes the collecting hopper 41 in accordance with the opening and closing operation of the collecting hopper opening and closing part 43 to continuously collect and discharge the powdered medicine, thereby continuously discharging the powdered medicine for one dose. do.

As described above, the powdered medicine continuously discharged in one dose by the metered discharge unit 40 is placed on the wrapping paper transported by the sealed packing unit 50 installed inside the main body B under the metered discharge unit 40. After soaking, the wrapper is heat-sealed and packaged continuously for one batch.

In addition, the present packaging apparatus further includes a drop amount adjusting unit 60 is installed in the fine drop unit 30 so that the amount of falling of the powdered medicine dropped through the fine drop unit 30. The drop amount adjusting unit 60 is a control plate 61 is provided to be in close contact with the upper portion of the horizontal transfer plate 31 of the fine drop portion 30 vertically to the transport portion of the powdered medicine, and the upper end of the control plate 61 It is installed in the angular movement part 62 for angular movement of the control plate 61.

The drop amount adjusting unit 60 adjusts the amount of transfer of the powdered medicine to be transferred from the upper surface to one side by the vibration of the horizontal transfer plate 31 while the control plate 61 is rotated at a predetermined angle by the angular movement part 62 The amount of powdered medicine falling from the end of the horizontal transfer plate 31 is adjusted accordingly.

As such, the drop amount of the powdered medicine is controlled by the drop amount adjusting unit 60, so that when the amount of powdered medicine to be packaged in a single dose is large, the amount of dropping is increased and the amount of powdered medicine to be packaged in a single dose is small. By relatively reducing the amount of falling, the packing speed is increased while the powdered medicine is packed in a stable and precise manner.

5 to 8 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the main portion showing an operating state of the present invention.

As shown in the figure, after the operator puts powdered medicine into the main hopper 10, sets the number of medicines to be packaged and the weight of each medicine, and operates the packaging device, the reciprocating moving part 24 is operated while the hopper opening and closing plate ( 23 is moved to one side and the powdered medicine is discharged to the upper surface of the horizontal transfer plate 31 through the lower end of the main hopper 10 is inserted into the insertion tube 21 while the lower end of the insertion tube 21 is opened. .

Here, the reciprocating moving part 24 is a rotational rotation of the rotating disk by the motor as shown, the link eccentrically hinged to the rotating disk is pulled, the operation is mounted on one end of the link as the link is pulled Pulling the rod may have a structure in which the hopper opening and closing plate 23 coupled to the operating rod is moved to one side.

As described above, the powdered medicine discharged to the horizontal transfer plate 31 is transferred to one side while being widened on the upper surface of the horizontal transfer plate 31 as the horizontal transfer plate 31 is vibrated by the vibrator 32. At the end of the horizontal transfer plate 31 is finely dropped in a certain amount.

At this time, the adjustment plate 61 provided on the upper surface of the horizontal transfer plate 31 is rotated by the angular movement part 62 to adjust the amount of powdered medicine falling to the end of the horizontal transfer plate 31.

Here, the angular movement part 62 is a rotary rod mounted on the upper end of the adjustment plate 61, the motor is mounted on the end of the rotary rod to rotate the rotary rod in accordance with the driving of the motor to angularly move the control plate 61 It may have a structure.

In addition, the powdered medicine that falls in a minute constant amount at the end of the horizontal transfer plate 31 is collected by the collecting hopper 41 located in the lower portion of the collected weight is calculated by the second electronic balance 42 When the weight calculated by the second electronic balance 42 is a predetermined dose, that is, the quantification, the collecting hopper opening and closing part 43 is operated to temporarily open the lower end of the collecting hopper 41 to collect the powdered medicine. Will be discharged at a time.

As described above, by continuously opening and closing the collecting hopper 41 by the measurement by the second electronic balance 42 and the opening and closing operation of the collecting hopper opening and closing portion 43, the collection and discharge of the powdered medicine is continuously performed, thereby providing the powdered medicine for one dose. Will be discharged continuously.

Here, the collecting hopper opening and closing portion 43 is mounted to the shutter of the collecting hopper 41 inclined and rotatably rotatable, and is provided with a driving motor for rotating the disc mounted with an eccentric pin. As the disc is rotated by the driving of a motor, the pin may press the protrusion to rotate the shutter to open a lower portion of the collecting hopper 41.

As described above, the present invention has a fine and smooth drop of the powdered medicine so that the quantity of powdered medicine is continuously and precisely packaged, thereby preventing the uneven packaging of the powdered medicine in advance and stopping the operation due to the wrong packaging. Has

In addition, another object of the present invention is to reduce the amount of powdered medicine to be packaged according to the amount of powdered medicine to increase the packaging speed, has the effect that the packaging work of the powdered medicine is made quickly.

In addition, another object of the present invention has the effect that the operator can easily recognize the amount of the total powdered medicine, the setting of the number of packaging according to the amount of packaging easily.

Claims (10)

A main hopper opening step of opening the lower part of the main hopper so that the powdered medicine injected into the main hopper is discharged; A fine dropping step of finely dropping the powdered medicine discharged from the main hopper after horizontally moving continuously; A collecting and weighing step of calculating the collected weight while collecting the finely dropped powdered medicine; When the amount of the powdered powder collected is a predetermined dose once discharged at a time and quantitative discharge step of performing such discharge continuously; Sealing packaging step of sealing packaging the powdered medicine discharged in a quantitative one by one continuously in a wrapping paper; Powdered medicine automatic packaging method comprising a. The method of claim 1, A drop amount adjusting step of adjusting a drop amount of the powdered medicine dropped in correspondence with the amount of the single dose set next to the fine drop step; Powdered medicine automatic packaging method characterized in that it further comprises. The method of claim 1, A weighing display step of calculating the total weight of the powdered medicine put into the main hopper prior to the opening of the main hopper and displaying the calculated amount to the outside; Powdered medicine automatic packaging method characterized in that it further comprises. Powdered medicament and the main hopper detachably provided on the upper surface of the main body; A main hopper opening and closing portion for opening and closing a lower portion of the main hopper so that the powdered medicine injected into the main hopper is discharged; A fine dropping portion dropping finely after continuously transporting the powdered medicine discharged downward while the main hopper is opened by the main hopper opening and closing portion; A quantitative discharge unit for quantitatively discharging the powdered medicine falling by the micro-falling unit and continuously discharging it in a single dose; A sealing packaging unit for continuously sealing and packing the powdered medicine discharged by one dose by the metered discharge unit in a wrapping paper; Powdered medicine automatic packaging device comprising a. The method of claim 4, wherein the main hopper opening and closing portion, Insertion tube and the lower end of the main hopper is inserted vertically, An insertion tube support member provided on an upper surface of the main body to support the insertion tube; A hopper opening and closing plate provided to be slidable while being in close contact with a lower surface of the insertion tube to open and close the lower end of the insertion tube; Reciprocating unit mounted on one side of the hopper opening and closing plate to reciprocate the hopper opening and closing plate to one side, Powdered medicine automatic packaging device comprising a. The method of claim 5, wherein the main hopper opening and closing portion, A connection member having one end mounted at one side of the insertion pipe support member; A first electronic balance on which the other end of the connection member is mounted and calculates the total weight of the powdered medicine injected into the main hopper; A display unit connected to the first electronic balance and an electrical signal to display the result measured by the first electronic balance to the outside; Powdered medicine automatic packaging device characterized in that it further comprises. The method of claim 4, wherein the micro-falling portion, A horizontal transfer plate provided horizontally on the main body corresponding to the lower portion of the main hopper; A vibrator for vibrating the horizontal conveying plate so that the powdered medicine is finely conveyed to the upper surface of the horizontal conveying plate and then dropped from the end thereof, Powdered medicine automatic packaging device comprising a. The method of claim 4, wherein the quantitative discharge unit, A collecting hopper provided inside the main body corresponding to the lower end of the micro-falling portion; A second electronic balance mounted on one side of the collection hopper to calculate the weight of the powdered medicine collected by the collection hopper, A collecting hopper opening and closing portion which is installed inside the main body to one side of the collecting hopper to open and close the collecting hopper, Powdered medicine automatic packaging device comprising a. The method of claim 4, wherein A drop amount adjusting unit installed in the fine drop unit so that the drop amount of the powdered medicine falling through the fine drop unit is adjusted; Powdered medicine automatic packaging device characterized in that it further comprises. The method of claim 9, wherein the fall amount adjusting unit, A control plate provided to be in close contact with a vertical portion of the powdered medicine to the upper surface of the micro-dropping portion; Is installed at the top of the throttle plate angular movement portion for angular movement of the throttle plate, Powdered medicine automatic packaging device comprising a.

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