Supply device of medicine used in automatic counting and packing system and supply method of medicine

Abstract

A supply device of medicine used in an automatic counting and packing system according to the present invention comprises two tablet distribution conveyors, each of which is disposed on both sides in the transverse direction under tablet cassettes and has a conveyor belt which is rotated repeatedly by power and on the outer surface of which a plurality of partition plates stand upright in a state of being spaced apart from each other as distant as the width of a table cassette, a tablet supply means for feeding tablets, fed by the tablet distribution conveyors dose by dose which is mounted between the tablet distribution conveyors, to a hopper of a packing means, and powder removing means for removing tablet powder which are disposed under the tablet distribution conveyors and mounted beside the tablet supply means. A supply method of medicine according to the present invention comprises a process of distributing portions, divided by partition plates, moving toward the center from the side, a process of tablets being supplied dose by dose to each corresponding distributing portion of each tablet distribution conveyor when the distributing portions come under a plurality of tablet cassettes disposed in the direction of width, and a process of a dose of tablets being supplied to a hopper of a packing means by two corresponding distributing portions, so that the packing means can pack tablets dose by dose. Accordingly, the present invention allows a variety of tablets supplied from a plurality of tablet cassettes to be supplied to a packing means at a time, and tablet powder to be removed, thereby facilitating quick supply of distributed tablets and ensuring a sanitary use for a long time.

What is claimed is:  
     
         1 . A supply device of medicine used in an automatic counting and packing system according to the present invention, which is designed to supply a plurality of tablets discharged from tablet cassettes dose by dose to a hopper as an element of a packing means and to have the packing means pack the tablets dose by dose, comprising two tablet distribution conveyors, each of which is disposed on both sides in the transverse direction under tablet cassettes and has a conveyor belt which is rotated repeatedly by power and on the outer surface of which a plurality of partition plates stand upright in a state of being spaced apart from each other as distant as the width of a table cassette, a tablet supply means for feeding tablets, fed by said two tablet distribution conveyors dose by dose which is mounted between said tablet distribution conveyors, to a hopper of a packing means, and powder removing means for removing tablet powder which are disposed under said tablet distribution conveyors and mounted beside said tablet supply means;  
     
     
         2 . A supply device of medicine used in an automatic counting and packing system according to  claim 1 , wherein pin mounting portions are formed on both upper sides of the belt, pins are mounted at the end portion of partition plates, both ends of each pin are mounted at pin mounting portions, and a plurality of elastic members are installed at each pin to elastically support both sides of each partition plate so that each partition plate can stand upright;  
     
     
         3 . A supply device of medicine used in an automatic counting and packing system according to  claim 1 , wherein said tablet supply means comprises a tablet supporting plate mounted apart under between said tablet distribution conveyors, two tablet feeding plates for pushing a plurality of tablets out of said tablet supporting plate to a hopper of a packing means, and a tablet supply conveyor having the belt  5   a  spaced at equal distances and moving said tablet feeding plates mounted on the belt  5 .  
     
     
         4 . A supply device of medicine used in an automatic counting and packing system according to  claim 1 , wherein a power removing means comprises an alcohol spray nozzle disposed under each tablet distribution conveyor, an air spray nozzle disposed under each tablet distribution conveyor and mounted by one side of the table supply means, and a powder suction port for sucking tablet powder which is separated from each tablet distribution conveyor and said tablet supply means by air pressure of said air spray nozzle; and  
     
     
         5 . A supply method of medicine to be carried out by a supply device of medicine used in an accounting and packing system according to the present invention comprising a process of distributing portions, divided by said partition plates, moving toward the center from the side, a process of tablets being supplied dose by dose to each corresponding distributing portion of each tablet distribution conveyor when said distributing portions come under a plurality of tablet cassettes disposed in the direction of width, a process of a dose of tablets being supplied to said hopper of said packing means by two corresponding distributing portions, and a process of tablets being distributed in sequence to the following distributing portions.