Patent ID: 6494022
Filing Date: 2002-12-17
Classification: B65B,Y10S

Abstract:
A pill packaging apparatus for packaging pills in a series of pill receptacles, said pill packaging apparatus comprising:a conveyor for conveying a series of pill receptacles generally horizontally therealong; a feeder mechanism extending over the conveyor for supplying pills into the pill receptacles in a predetermined manner; and a packaging device disposed downstream of the feeder mechanism with respect to the conveyor, the packaging device defining an axis and comprising a resilient pad in laterally displaced relation from the axis, the resilient pad being configured so as to be eccentrically driven about the axis in an orbital motion, the resilient pad being further capable of being brought into engagement with pills protruding from the pill receptacles, the orbital motion of the resilient pad thereby urging the protruding pills to lie flat in the receptacles.