Patent ID: 7536938
Filing Date: 2009-05-26
Classification: B26D,B26F,B65B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for cutting a series of medicine packets comprising: a feeding device for feeding the series of medicine packets, in which the medicine packets having holes are continuously connected to each other, from an upper side of a main body to a stepped part formed at the other side of the main body; a cutting device for cutting the series of medicine packets fed along the upper side of the main body by one medicine packet at the stepped part; a loading device for loading the medicine packets, cut by the cutting device and dropped to the stepped part, in predetermined number; a controller including a position sensor for detecting a position of the hole formed in the medicine packet fed along the upper side of the main body and controlling the feeding device and the cutting device based on the position information of the hole of the medicine packets inputted from the position sensor; and a length detecting device provided at the side of the main body to detect a length of the series of medicine packets discharged from an automatic medicine packaging machine and to input the detected length to the controller such that the feed of the series of medicine packets to the feeding device is adjusted, the length detecting device comprising