Patent ID: 7827764
Filing Date: 2010-11-09
Classification: B41J,B65B,G07F,G07G

Abstract:
1. A medicine delivering device including a medicine storage and removal unit, wherein a plurality of cassettes each containing a tablet are detachably disposed at an outer surface of a drum rotatable supported at upper and lower ends by a device body, and a medicine packaging unit for packaging medicine removed through a collecting hopper from the medicine cassette of the medicine storage and removal unit, the medicine delivering device being characterized in that a sub medicine storage and removal unit is disposed at a side surface of the device body, wherein the sub medicine storage and removal unit comprises: a body, a drawer body configured to be pulled out from the body and having a plurality of medicine cassettes each containing medicine, each medicine cassette being detachably mounted to the drawer body, upper and lower guides for guiding medicine removed from the medicine cassette of the drawer body to the collecting hopper, the upper guide having a shutter for receiving the medicine removed from the medicine cassettes of the drawer body, and a medicine extruding unit disposed between the lower guide and the collecting hopper to transfer the medicine in the upper and lower guides to the collecting hopper, the medicine extruding unit including wherein the medicine removed from the medicine cassettes of the drawer body is temporarily received by the shutter of the upper guide, and when the shutter is opened, the medicine is guided to the medicine extruding unit through the lower guide.