JPH0664601A - Tablet supplier for table subdivision packing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To subdivision-pack a general medicine which is treated while being housed in a tablet subdivision packing apparatus and special medicine which cannot be left housed in the packing apparatus related with each other according to a prescription. CONSTITUTION:In a tablet subdivision packing apparatus 1 comprising a tablet storage with numerous tablet feeders 5 housed and a packing device 6 for subdivision-packing tablets discharged from an optional tablet feeder 5 for taking each tablet feeder 5 forward from the tablet storage to supply tablets, a tablet supplying member which is formed with a wide width with respect to its depth is provided on a lower part of the tablet storage so that it can be pulled out toward a front. Thus if special medicine which cannot be left housed in the tablet subdivision packing apparatus 1 is housed in the tablet supplying member, this special medicine and general medicine housed in the tablet storage can be subdivision-packed related with each other according to a prescription.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a tablet feeder for a tablet packing machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a tablet packing machine is equipped with a tablet storage box containing a large number of tablet feeders and a packaging device for packing tablets discharged from an arbitrary tablet feeder, and each tablet feeder is provided with the above-mentioned tablets. There is one that comes out of the storage room to the front to perform the tablet refilling work. The types of chemicals handled by this type of tablet packing machine are often prescribed relatively frequently, and the more frequently the tablets contained in each tablet feeder are prescribed, the more the tablet packing machine It contributes to efficient automation of labor and labor saving.
On the other hand, some chemicals require strict management because they are dangerous to use, some have severe storage conditions such as temperature and humidity, and some are extremely rarely used. Since it is inconvenient to store in the tablet feeder and then in the tablet packing machine, it is not generally handled by the tablet packing machine. Therefore, for these special chemicals, without using a tablet packing machine,
Dispensing workers such as pharmacists are manually dispensing.

[0003]

However, a certain patient's prescription contains a general medicine which is handled while stored in the tablet packaging machine and a special medicine which cannot be stored in the tablet packaging machine. It is important for the patient to take both of them in sufficient quantity, and for that purpose both drugs should be packaged in a single packet or adjacent packets in each dose. Preferably. However, the conventional tablet packing machine does not have a structure that can handle special chemicals that cannot be stored in the tablet packing machine. There is a problem that general medicines to be handled while stored cannot be packaged as a single package or adjacent packages for each dose period, for example.

The present invention solves the problems of the above-mentioned conventional ones and prescribes a general medicine which is handled while stored in a tablet packing machine and a special medicine which cannot be stored in the tablet packing machine. Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a tablet supply device of a tablet packaging machine that can perform packaging in association with each other.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention comprises a tablet container containing a large number of tablet feeders, and a packaging device for packaging tablets discharged from any tablet feeder, In a tablet packing machine adapted to take out each tablet feeder from the tablet storage room forward to perform tablet supply work, a tablet supply member formed wider than the depth is pulled out toward the front below the tablet storage room. It is provided as possible.

[0006]

According to the present invention, by adopting the above-mentioned means, if a special medicine that cannot be kept stored in the tablet packaging machine is stored in the tablet supply member, it will be treated as a special medicine stored in the tablet supply member. The general medicine stored in the tablet storage is packaged in association with each other according to the prescription.

[0007]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a tablet feeding device of a tablet packing machine according to the present invention. The tablet packing machine 1 comprises a plurality of drawer bodies 2, 2, ..., Each drawer body 2 has a front surface thereof. By pulling the handle 3 provided on the panel by hand, the handle 3 can be pulled out to the front when viewed from the front. As shown in FIG.
Each drawer 2 is provided with a plurality of stages of shelves 4, 4, ... On both right and left sides (only one side is shown), and a plurality of tablet feeders 5, 5 ,. Then, the tablets discharged from each tablet feeder 5 are transferred to the drawer 2
It is designed to drop downward through a chute (not shown) provided between the left and right shelves. Therefore, the upper part of the tablet packing machine 1 provided with these drawers 2, 2, ... Composes a tablet storage box accommodating a large number of tablet feeders 5, 5 ,. The tablet packing machine 1 also includes a packaging device 6 below the drawers 2, 2, ..., And all the tablet feeders 5 installed in the drawers 2, 2 ,.
The tablets discharged from 5, ... Are introduced into the packaging device 6 via the hopper 7, and are individually packaged in one package. The tablet packaging machine 1 further includes an auxiliary drawer 8 that can be pulled out toward the front when viewed from the front, below the tablet storage box,
The auxiliary drawer 8 is formed wider than the depth as shown in the drawing. In the auxiliary drawer 8, for example, several auxiliary feeders 9 similar to the tablet feeders 5, 5, ... Are installed, or chemicals not suitable for being accommodated in the auxiliary feeder 9 can be sprinkled. Both the tablets discharged from the auxiliary feeder 9 and the hand-sprinkled medicines are introduced into the packaging device 6 via the hopper 7 and packaged one by one. Therefore, the auxiliary drawer 8 is configured as a tablet supply member that handles chemicals that are not contained in the tablet feeders 5, 5, .... As shown in FIG. 3, the tablet packaging machine 1 is provided with a prescription receiving device 10 that receives a prescription input from an appropriate input device.
0 divides the accepted prescription for each of the drawers 2, 2, ..., and transmits it to the operating device 11 of the corresponding drawer 2, and causes the tablet feeder 5 corresponding to the prescription to perform the tablet discharging operation. Has become. Further, when the prescription receiving device 10 receives a prescription of a tablet that is not stored in any of the tablet feeders 5, 5, ... Of the drawers 2, 2, ..., The prescription (external prescription) is processed by the processing device 12. To tell. When the external prescription or the end of the prescription is notified, the processing device 12 automatically pulls out the auxiliary drawer 8, and
When the operator such as a pharmacist operates the switch 13, the auxiliary drawer 8 is automatically pushed. That is, the processing device 12 operates as follows.
First, when an external prescription is transmitted from the prescription acceptance device 10,
The auxiliary drawer 8 is automatically pulled out. Next, an auxiliary feeder 9 containing tablets corresponding to the external prescription by a worker such as a pharmacist at a predetermined position of the drawn auxiliary drawer 8.
Is installed and the switch 13 is operated, the processing device 12 automatically pushes the auxiliary drawer 8 to the storage position. Next, when the tablet discharging operation of the auxiliary feeder 9 according to the external prescription is completed, the processing device 12 automatically pulls out the auxiliary drawer 8 again. Then, an operator such as a pharmacist uses an auxiliary feeder 9 from the drawn auxiliary drawer 8.
When the switch 13 is operated in addition to being removed, the processing device 12 is configured to automatically push the auxiliary drawer 8 again to the retracted position to complete one cycle of operation. In addition, when the auxiliary feeder 9 is not installed at a predetermined position of the auxiliary drawer 8 and the medicine is sprinkled, after the medicine discharging operation following the pushing operation of the auxiliary drawer 8 by the operation of the switch 13. The re-drawing operation of the auxiliary drawer 8 is configured so that it can be omitted if necessary.

Next, the operation of the tablet feeding device of the tablet packing machine configured as described above will be described. First, when the prescription input by an appropriate input device is transmitted to the tablet packing machine 1, the prescription is received by the prescription receiving device 10.
It is transmitted to the actuating device 11 of the corresponding drawer body 2, and is transmitted to the processing device 12 in the case of an external prescription. When the prescription is the prescription of the tablet accommodated in any one of the tablet feeders 5 of the drawer body 2, the actuating device 11 of the drawer body 2 operates the tablet feeder 5 corresponding to the prescription. Thus, the tablets discharged from the tablet feeder 5 by a predetermined number of tablets are introduced into the packaging device 6 through the hopper 7, and are packaged by the packaging device 6 one by one. If the prescription is an external prescription, the processing device 12 first automatically pulls out the auxiliary drawer 8. Next, an operator such as a pharmacist installs an auxiliary feeder 9 accommodating tablets corresponding to the external prescription at a predetermined position of the auxiliary drawer 8 that has been pulled out, or accommodates the auxiliary feeder 9 in the auxiliary feeder 9. When the switch 13 is operated after the chemicals that are not suitable for the above are sprinkled, the processing device 12 automatically pushes the auxiliary drawer 8 to the storage position. And
In this state, the processing device 12 operates the auxiliary feeder 9 according to the prescription to discharge the tablets, or discharges the sprinkled medicines, and the tablets discharged from the auxiliary feeder 9 by a predetermined number of tablets, or The medicines that have been sprinkled and discharged are introduced into the packaging device 6 through the hopper 7 and are individually packaged by the packaging device 6. Next, when the tablet discharging operation of the auxiliary feeder 9 according to the external prescription is completed, the processing device 12 automatically pulls the auxiliary drawer 8 again. Then, when the worker such as a pharmacist removes the auxiliary feeder 9 from the pulled-out auxiliary drawer 8 and operates the switch 13, the processing device 12 automatically stores the auxiliary drawer 8 again. Pushing to the position, the operation of one cycle is completed. Further, if the prescribed tablets are those contained in any of the tablet feeders 5 and those not contained in any of the tablet feeders 5, 5, ... With the auxiliary feeder 9 installed on the drawer body 8, both tablets will be packaged in association with each other like a single package or adjacent packages.
The same applies when a chemical unsuitable to be stored in the auxiliary feeder 9 is sprinkled on the auxiliary drawer 8.

In the above embodiment, a plurality of shelves 4, 4, ... Are provided on both left and right sides of each drawer 2, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the width of each drawer 2 is narrow. , May be provided with a plurality of shelves 4, 4, ... On only one side thereof, and the tablet feeders 5, 5 ,. Further, in the above embodiment, the tablet storage is configured as the drawers 2, 2, ..., However, the tablet feeders 5, 5,
The tablet storage may not necessarily include the drawers 2, 2, ... As long as the tablets can be replenished by taking out the tablets ... Each of the shelves of the tier may be configured to have a plurality of tablet feeders, respectively, and a plurality of tablet feeders are annularly arranged around the vertical axis,
These may be arranged in a plurality of stages, and all tablet feeders may be rotated or rotated around the axis line so that any tablet feeder can be moved to the front outlet. Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the auxiliary drawer 8 is configured to be automatically withdrawn at the start and end of the external prescription, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, automatic withdrawal at the end of external prescription may be performed. By omitting, the auxiliary drawer 8 can be configured to be automatically withdrawn only at the start of the external prescription, and the auxiliary drawer 8 is not automatically withdrawn at both the start and the end. It can also be configured to. If the automatic withdrawal of the auxiliary withdrawing body 8 accompanying the start or end of the external prescription is omitted, the auxiliary withdrawing body 8 can be operated by an appropriate switch operation as in the automatic pushing by the operation of the switch 13.
Can be automatically withdrawn, and the switch used at this time can be shared with the switch 13. Further, when the auxiliary drawer 8 is automatically pulled out, in order to inform the operator of that fact, for example, an appropriate display device is provided to light or blink it, or an appropriate alarm sound is generated. But this is
The same applies to the automatic withdrawal of the auxiliary drawer 8 with the start or end of the external prescription and the automatic withdrawal of the auxiliary drawer 8 by operating a switch. When the auxiliary feeder 9 is configured to be separable into a cassette that stores tablets and a drive unit that discharges the tablets stored in the cassette, the drive unit having the electrical connection lead wire is It is possible to fix the inside of the auxiliary drawer 8 by providing only an appropriate frame for holding the cassette on the auxiliary drawer 8 so that the auxiliary drawer 8 can be easily moved. Further, in order to allow the auxiliary drawer 8 to be sprinkled with chemicals, for example, a plurality of squares are provided in the front-rear direction and the left-right direction so that the chemicals sprinkled in each square can be discharged one by one. In this case, the number of front, rear, left and right cells can be formed, for example, to 3 × 7 corresponding to the prescription for 3 times a day for 7 days, or 4 times a day for 14 days. It is possible to form 4 × 14 corresponding to the above prescription, but of course the present invention is not limited to this, and it may be an appropriate configuration that can be sprinkled. Also, FIG.
Although not specifically shown in FIG. 2, tablets discharged from any of the tablet feeders 5, 5, ... Are provided with a tablet supply member, that is, an auxiliary drawer 8 provided below the tablet storage case.
It is needless to say that an appropriate dropping path is configured so that the presence of the above does not hinder the dropping into the hopper 7 and the introduction into the packaging device 6. Furthermore, in the above example, the tablet packing machine was described, but the invention is not limited to this, and it can be applied to various drug packing machines including a powder packing machine equipped with an appropriate powder feeder, in that sense. The term "tablet" in this specification can be restated as a "medicine" which is not limited to a tablet.

[0010]

Since the present invention is constructed as described above,
If a special medicine that cannot be kept stored in the tablet packaging machine is stored in the tablet supply member, the special medicine stored in the tablet supply member and the general medicine stored in the tablet storage are They can be packaged in association with each other depending on the prescription, and the tablet supply member is not provided as part of the tablet storage itself, but is provided separately from the tablet storage. Therefore, the tablets discharged from the tablet feeder housed in the tablet storage and the tablets discharged from the tablet supply member can be smoothly loaded into the packaging device without restricting the discharging operation of each other. , For example, if a patient's prescription contains general medicines stored in a tablet storage case and special medicines that must be handled by the tablet supply member, both medicines should be used as appropriate for each dose. It can be packaged in combination, thus making the package extremely convenient for the patient to take both medicines in proper quantity, and to form a reliable package, and the tablet supply member Since it is formed wider than the depth and is drawn out to the front, it has an excellent effect that it is easy for an operator to handle and is suitable for various kinds of manual work.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing an embodiment of a tablet supply device of a tablet packaging machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view showing a state in which a drawer body of the tablet supply device of the tablet packaging machine of FIG. 1 is pulled out.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a main part of a tablet supply device of the tablet packaging machine of FIG. 1.

[Explanation of symbols]

1: Tablet packing machine 2: Drawer 3: Handle 4: Shelf 5: Tablet feeder 6: Packing device 7: Hopper 8: Auxiliary drawer 9: Auxiliary feeder 10: Prescription acceptance device 11: Actuator 12: Processing device 13: switch

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A tablet storage container containing a large number of tablet feeders, and a packaging device for packaging tablets discharged from any tablet feeder, and each tablet feeder is taken out from the tablet storage container to the front and tablets are packed. In a tablet packing machine adapted to perform a replenishing operation, a tablet feeding member formed wider than a depth is provided so as to be able to be pulled out toward the front below the tablet storage.