Patent ID: 6367232
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
A tablet cassette installation-error preventing system for an automatic tablet supplying and packaging apparatus including a tablet dropping unit and a tablet packaging unit below the tablet dropping unit, wherein a plurality of tablet cassettes are detachably mounted on an outer periphery of the tablet dropping unit to drop tablets therefrom to the tablet packaging unit, comprising:a) a plurality of cassette supports each having a front side, a rear side, a top side, and a rotor drive therein, wherein the rear side is fixedly attached on the outer periphery of the tablet dropping unit, wherein a plurality of pin holes are formed in the top side of said each cassette support, wherein the pin holes are respectively identical to each other in size and shape; b) the plurality of tablet cassettes detachably mounted on the plurality of cassette supports in correspondence thereto, wherein said each tablet cassette has a bottom side and a rotor therein operably engaged to the rotor drive; c) an installation-error detector having a base with an upper surface and a lower surface, wherein the upper surface of the detector base is attached to the bottom side of said each tablet cassette, wherein a plurality of locking pins corresponding to the plurality of pin holes downwardly extend from the lower surface of the detector base so that said locking pins can respectively fit in said pin holes of said each cassette support when said each tablet cassette is mounted on said cassette support.