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• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
  • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
  • G07F17/0092—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for assembling and dispensing of pharmaceutical articles
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
  • B65B5/00—Packaging individual articles in containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars
  • B65B5/10—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles
  • B65B5/101—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles by gravity
  • B65B5/103—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles by gravity for packaging pills or tablets
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  • G07F11/00—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles
  • G07F11/02—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines
  • G07F11/04—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines in which magazines the articles are stored one vertically above the other
  • G07F11/10—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines in which magazines the articles are stored one vertically above the other two or more magazines having a common delivery chute
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
  • G07F11/00—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles
  • G07F11/02—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines
  • G07F11/04—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines in which magazines the articles are stored one vertically above the other
  • G07F11/16—Delivery means
  • G07F11/24—Rotary or oscillatory members
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
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  • G07F11/00—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles
  • G07F11/02—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines
  • G07F11/44—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines in which magazines the articles are stored in bulk

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a device for packaging medicament portions.
• Medication portions are the so-called blister machines.
• WO 2013/034504 AI describes such a blister machine.
• Blister bag which leave these bags as a strand of Blister nitrogen (also called "blister"), the device for further use.
• a blister bag regularly corresponds to a time of taking a patient, d. H. Contains all portions of medication that a patient must take at a given time of day.
• the order data itself may be, for example, data derived from recipes or the like.
• Blinding speed is constructed relatively expensive.
• the simpler blister machines is a variety of Storage and dispensing stations arranged in a matrix on or on a holding device. From the storage and
• the drug portions are fed via a central guide device of a packaging device, which blisters the provided portions of medication.
• a packaging device which blisters the provided portions of medication.
• Medication portions can also be packed in a different way.
• the storage and dispensing stations are "externally" attached to the holding device, and those of the memory and
• Dispensing stations dispensed drug portions reach via drug chutes to the central guide device.
• the guide device is contaminated with a variety of different drug fragments.
• the drug fragments can be blistered or packaged with the medication portions and can cause unwanted side effects or allergic reactions when the patient is receiving the medication
• Packaging speed is not as high as that of the above device, quite essential that the parts of the
• the device according to the invention comprises a frame structure to which at least one guide device is attached, wherein the guide device has a plurality of receiving openings and at least one discharge opening.
• the guide device is an independent component that can participate in the formation or support of a basic structure of the device, but is not necessary for the basic structure as such.
• the apparatus further comprises a plurality of storage and dispensing stations for dispensing individual portions of medicaments, said storage and dispensing stations having a medicament supply reservoir and a dispensing station having a dispensing station
• the individual storage and dispensing stations are connected to a control device, and on the basis of a control command of this control device, individual medication portions can be dispensed from each storage and dispensing station.
• the device further comprises a holding device for the storage and dispensing stations, wherein the holding device has a plurality of holders, in each case a drug slide with a receiving opening and a
• Dispensing opening and a storage and dispensing station are arranged, in such a way that the receiving openings of the
• Dispensing stations and the discharge openings of the drug chutes are associated with the receiving openings of the at least one guide device.
• the medication chutes form the link between the drug delivery channel of a storage and dispensing station and the guide means, i. isolated portions of medication reach over one
• Medication slide in the guide device Medication slide in the guide device.
• Packed drug portions includes the device
• it may be a band or a funnel arranged below the at least one guide device, which or which may be the one or more dispensed delivered drug portions to the packaging device.
• Portions of medication dispensed from the storage and dispensing stations into the at least one guide means are rapidly contaminated with drug fragments.
• the guide device is detachably arranged or attached to the frame structure. Furthermore, the invention provides that the at least one holding device and the
• Frame structure are mounted on or in the device such that the holding device and the frame structure are movable relative to each other such that in an access position from outside the device to the at least one
• Management device can be accessed.
• Guide device can be removed and it can then be an already cleaned guide device in or on the
• Frame structure can be arranged.
• a guide device or a plurality of guide devices are used. Is for
• Guide channel can be used, with drug portions pass through the receiving openings in the guide channel and exit through the discharge opening again.
• a guide device may be used with a plurality of guide channels, in which case each
• Guide channel a plurality of receiving openings and a
• Dispensing opening is assigned. It is also conceivable to have a plurality of guide devices with one or more
• the holding device for the storage and dispensing stations is preferably pivotable on, for example, the
• Guide devices are pivoted away, so that a direct access to the guide device (s) is possible.
• a corresponding embodiment of the device is structurally simple and inexpensive to implement.
• Guiding device detachably arranged or fixed to the frame structure.
• Guidance device and the frame structure is made. This also has the advantage that no special tool is necessary for releasing the guide device from the frame structure.
• the guide device or a composite of several guide devices, for example, be mounted on a special support of the frame structure.
• a further fixation of the guide device is not absolutely necessary, since this is fixed by the holding device or the holding devices themselves when "closing" the device.
• Medicament fragments are contaminated, so that a frequent cleaning of the drug slides is necessary, especially when a drug slide a storage ⁇ and dispensing station with a drug that differs from the previously stored there drug is used.
• the drug slides are common
• the drug slides are releasably secured to the brackets of the at least one holding device, so that they are easily removed for cleaning and through
• the drug slides are formed such that a positive releasable connection between the
• Medication slides and a holding device consists.
• the collection device can be designed, for example, as a conveyor belt, which transports delivered medication portions to the packaging device. With appropriate training of the conveyor belt, for example, on the
• Conveyor belt arranged release agents can also several
• the collecting device comprises a plurality of collecting devices which serve as temporary medicament stores. Regularly there is one
• Assigned collecting device a guide device, so that a plurality of drug compilations can be created in parallel, which can then be handed over after completion, for example by opening a flap of a collector, a funnel or the like, from where they reach the packaging device.
• the collecting means may also be attached to a circulating conveyor belt and passed under the guide means, so that each
• Collecting device at each guide device can be passed, which significantly increases the number of different portions of medication that can be used for a drug compilation.
• a collecting device is guided past the packaging device by means of the conveyor belt, it is conveyed to the collecting device
• Medication slides and / or the guide device inside have a non-stick coating. An adhesion of drug fragments forming during operation is reduced, these traps are directed downward through the device and may be removed in dedicated areas.
• Medication chutes are significant, so when replacing contaminated drug chutes, one or more mounts may not come with a cleaned one
• Medication slide be provided. This has the consequence that the portions of medication at these sites after delivery by the delivery station not as desired in the associated
• Device has a plurality of sensor devices that detect the presence of all drug slides. If it is determined that one or more drug chutes are missing after closing the device, a beep or other indication, for example a message on a display device, may be issued, the one to the
• Figure 1 shows a sectional view of a first embodiment of the device according to the invention
• Figure 2 shows a sectional view of a second embodiment of the device according to the invention
• Figures 3a to 3c show detailed views of a portion of the second embodiment
• Figures 4a and 4b show further detail views of a portion of the second embodiment
• FIGS. 5a to 5c show detailed views of a holding device with storage and dispensing stations and drug chutes
• Figures 6a and 6b detail views of a third
• FIG. 1 shows a sectional view through a first embodiment of the device according to the invention for packaging medicament portions.
• a plurality of guide means (20) are implemented, which are designed as elongated downpipes with a plurality of receiving openings 21 and a discharge opening 22, wherein the
• Receiving openings 21 and discharge openings 22 are only indicated in Figure 1.
• a plurality of guide means are arranged parallel to one another and form a bundle of guide means, wherein the guide means may be interconnected. Two such bundles are in parallel one behind the other
• the individual guide devices are each mounted on a suspension 13 of a frame structure 10, so that a positive connection between the
• Each guide device comprises a (not visible in Figure 1) guide channel, the medication portions on the
• the frame structure 10 comprises at least one horizontal support 11 and at least two vertical supports 12 at the edges of the bundles of guide means, the supports 13 being fixed to the horizontal support 11.
• the frame structure 10 forms a structure disposed within the device to which the guide means are releasably secured, but the guide means themselves do not form part of the inner support structure of the device according to the invention, but can be completely removed from the device without affecting the inner support structure.
• the device according to the invention further comprises a
• Holding device 40 which can be seen in the illustration of Figure 1 in the background, and the more detailed below
• Holding device 40 serves a plurality of
• Collection device 50 is arranged, which in the first embodiment shown, this includes a plurality of collection devices 52, the (only indicated) circulating
• Guidance device aligned so that drug portions of each guidance device in a specific
• Collection device can be handed over.
• the collection device 50 further comprises a funnel 51, in which the collected medication portions from the collection devices 52
• the packaging device 60, the collecting device 50 and the (not shown) storage and dispensing stations are coupled to a control device 60, via which the individual components of the device according to the invention are controlled.
• FIG. 2 shows a sectional view of a second one
• the guide means of the second embodiment are fixed only via two suspensions 13 within the device, ie the bundles of guide means 20 are each combined into one or two packages.
• the packages Guidance devices can only be taken as a whole, which is in terms of the period of replacement of the
• Guide devices is advantageous, but also conditional that always a plurality of guide devices is replaced.
• a collection device 50 is arranged, but this does not include, as was the case in the first embodiment, a plurality of collection devices, but only a large collection funnel 51, the
• Drug assemblies to a packaging device 60 supplies, which is coupled to a controller 70. Also in this embodiment, the (not shown)
• Storage and dispensing stations coupled to the controller 70 so that they each individually for dispensing
• Drug servings can be controlled.
• the device according to the invention is not limited to the two aforementioned embodiments. So can
• Figures 3a and 3b show detailed views of a portion of the second embodiment.
• the apparatus comprises two bundles of parallel guide means 20 arranged one behind the other, the guide means or bundles being arranged such that the receiving openings 21 of the guide means 20 are opposite and away from the middle plane between the bundles are arranged.
• a corresponding arrangement of the guide means is particularly useful if, as shown in more detail with regard to Figures 4a and 4b, two holding devices 40, each having a plurality of
• Storage and dispensing stations are installed.
• the at least one holding device 40 and the frame structure 10 on or in such the device are fixed, that the holding device 40 and the frame structure 10 are movable relative to each other in such a way that in an access position from the outside to the
• Guide devices 20 can be accessed.
• the second embodiment of the device according to the invention is such a relative movement of the frame structure and the
• Holding device 40 is arranged pivotably.
• the holding device 40 is designed as a type of door which comprises a vertical holding plane 45 and substantially horizontal and vertical frame elements 46 and 47, wherein the
• Frame elements 46 and 47 as will be described with reference to Figure 3c, a kind of protective frame for the
• first and the second embodiment of the device according to the invention each comprise two holding means 40 which are pivotable with respect to the guide means, namely to the indicated in Figures 3a and 3b pivot axes SA1 and SA2.
• pivoting are either on the "rear" vertical support 12, or other additional
• FIG. 3b shows a rear view of the illustration according to FIG. 3a, wherein it can be clearly seen that the two bundles of guide devices lie "back to back" and that
• Embodiment thus "outside”, ie away from the center plane of the device, a plurality of receiving openings 21.
• Holding device 40 shown. This includes, as will be described in more detail with reference to Figure 3c Plurality of storage and dispensing stations, of which the
• Each dispensing station is a merely indicated
• Associated drug slide 42 which extends through the support plane 45 and a connection between the
• Dispensing stations themselves therefore do not extend with any section through the holding plane, but are "arranged from outside” or attached to this.
• FIG. 3 c illustrates how the dispensing stations 32 of the storage and dispensing stations are arranged on the holding device 40.
• the storage and dispensing stations are arranged in a matrix, which of the horizontal and
• the dispensing stations 32 are (releasably) attached to the holding plane 45 of the holding device 40 and (not shown) storage 31 are detachable to the
• Dispensing stations 32 can be placed.
• FIGS 4a and 4b show detailed views of portions of the second embodiment, wherein in these figures two
• Holding means 40 are shown, which are arranged pivotably within the device. Like this in the
• the holding devices 40 are pivotally mounted in the device (not shown here) pivot joints.
• Holding device 40 is shown in a closed state, i. in a state where the storage and dispensing stations and the drug chutes are aligned with the guide means.
• the "front” or “right” holding device 40 is already something of the guide devices
• Guide means 20 in several parts, in particular be designed in two parts, wherein in the embodiment shown a holding device 40 facing half 20a the
• Receiving openings 21 has.
• a middle of the device facing half 20b comprises a guide channel 23, said guide channel having projections which the
• the guide means are internally provided with a non-stick coating 24, which is intended to prevent adhesion of detached medicament fragments.
• Guide device 20 a guide channel 23.
• the guide means may be configured differently in alternative embodiments.
• Guide channels or two guide devices are each used with a plurality of guide channels.
• only one guide device with at least one guide channel can be used.
• Dispensing opening depends on the exact number and design of the guide channels.
• FIGS. 5a-5c show detailed views of one
• Holding device 40 having a plurality of attached thereto discharge stations 32, each part of a storage and
• Dispensing station 30 are. In the view according to FIG. 5a, two rows of delivery stations 32 and 32 are associated with them.
• the holding plane 45 of the holding device 40 has a plurality of holders 41.
• the brackets 41 are in this Embodiment designed as openings in the holding plane 45, and in these openings are the drug chutes 42nd
• each projections 48 are formed, to which the discharge stations 32 of the memory and
• Dispensing stations 30 can be attached.
• a medicament slide 42 is arranged, via which the medication portions of the
• Dispensing channels of the dispensing stations are passed into the guide devices.
• the medicament slides 42 are arranged in a form-fitting manner with the holders 41. As can be seen from FIG. 5 c, these are
• Medication chutes 42 in the embodiment shown simply inserted into the brackets 41, wherein the
• Receiving openings 43 abut the drug delivery channels 33 of the dispensing stations 32.
• Medicament slides have a non-stick coating 49b, which prevents the adhesion of drug fragments or
• the holding device 40 comprises a plurality of sensors 49a, which detect the presence of the medication chutes.
• the sensors may be connected to the controller of the device, and a lack of a medication chute may be displayed centrally. In addition, it is conceivable that the sensors
• Figures 6a and 6b show detailed views of a third
• Guiding devices installed, each having only on one side receiving openings, but a single layer of parallel guide means, the two
• Medication portions of storage and dispensing stations are delivered to both sides of the management facilities in this.
• Holding means or the guide means is realized differently in the third embodiment, namely by
• a guide rail 101 is arranged, in which rollers 102 at the lower end of
• Holding device are guided. Similar to a sliding door, the holding device 40 with all storage and

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