초록 ▼

A hopper opening and closing apparatus for an automatic tablet dispensing system is disclosed. The hopper opening and closing apparatus includes a door hingedly connected to a discharge hopper for swing down to open and swing up to close the release port, wherein the tablets released from the tablet

A hopper opening and closing apparatus for an automatic tablet dispensing system is disclosed. The hopper opening and closing apparatus includes a door hingedly connected to a discharge hopper for swing down to open and swing up to close the release port, wherein the tablets released from the tablets dropping unit are temporarily gathered in the tablet release hopper when the release door is closed. The door is formed to cover a release port provided through a lower portion of a discharge hopper. The hopper apparatus further includes a door control, which includes a horizontal opening bar engaged at the release port, a rotation shaft driven by a motor which simultaneously drives a heat assembly, a cam carried on said rotation shaft, an opening lever making an angular movement by said cam, and an opening link engaged to the opening bar and linked from the opening lever, whereby the tablets gathered in said discharge hopper are simultaneously dropped into a target packaging paper.

대표청구항 ▼

[ What is claimed is:] [1.]1. An automatic tablet dispenser controlled by a main computer comprising:a) a tablet dropping unit having a drum communicating with a plurality of release holes which fixate a plurality of tablet storing tablet cassettes, said release holes dropping the tablets released f

[ What is claimed is:] [1.]1. An automatic tablet dispenser controlled by a main computer comprising:a) a tablet dropping unit having a drum communicating with a plurality of release holes which fixate a plurality of tablet storing tablet cassettes, said release holes dropping the tablets released from the tablet cassettes;b) a discharge hopper having a release port provided through a lower portion of said discharge hopper, and a tablet release door hingedly connected to the discharge hopper for swinging down to open and swinging up to close the release port, wherein the tablets released from the tablet dropping unit are temporarily gathered in the tablet release hopper when the release door is closed;c) a door control for elastically controlling the swinging of the release door of the discharge hopper;d) a heater assembly for packaging the tablets from the discharge hopper in a packaging paper; ande) a motor driving the door control and the heater assembly.