Patent ID: 6164038
Filing Date: 2000-12-26
Classification: B29C,B65B,G07F

Abstract:
A heater assembly for an improved automatic tablet dispenser comprising a tablet dropping unit having a drum communicating with a plurality of release holes which open to a plurality of tablet storing cassettes storing therein and releasing therefrom a measured quantity of tablets, wherein, the heater assembly for packaging the tablets released through said release holes into a plurality of tablet packages by use of a tablet packaging paper, comprising:a) a pair of heating rollers each having a pair of peripheral sealing surfaces, a pair of axial sealing surfaces, a first end and a second end, wherein said each peripheral sealing surface is formed cylindrically at said each end of said each heating roller and perpendicular to the axis of said each heating roller, wherein said each axial sealing surface is linked axially between the peripheral sealing surfaces, wherein a plurality of continuously-and-linearly ridged teeth circularly disposed on and along said pair of peripheral sealing surfaces and said pair of axial sealing surfaces of each of said heating rollers, wherein each tablet package sealed by the heating rollers has several impressed continuous tablet package paper lines linearly impressed by the continuously-and-linearly ridged teeth so that the tablet packages can be easily ripped off along any of the tablet package paper lines for easy opening thereof, and wherein an axial groove is continuously and axially disposed in and along the axial sealing surface of at least one of the heating rollers; andb) a cutter fixedly inserted in and along said axial groove for forming a perforated line on a tablet packaging paper for easy separation of the tablet packages.