Patent ID: 8209942

Claim:
A medicine packing device, comprising: a tablet receiving part including a plurality of tablet receiving measures defined in a plurality of rows in forward and backward directions and in a plurality of columns in a transverse direction, each of the tablet receiving measures receiving tablets for one pack; a tablet dispensing part for removing tablets from a lower opening of the tablet receiving measure and dispensing the removed tablets one pack at a time; and a packing part for packing the tablets dispensed by the tablet dispensing part one pack at a time, wherein the tablet dispensing part comprises: an opening and closing mechanism disposed below the tablet receiving part to open and close the lower opening of the tablet receiving measure; a tablet dispensing member disposed below the opening and closing mechanism and including a plurality of tablet dispensing measures defined in a plurality of rows and in a plurality of columns to correspond to the tablet receiving measures, each of the tablet dispensing measures receiving the tablets dropped from the lower opening of the tablet receiving measure opened by the opening and closing mechanism, the tablet dispensing member being movable in a column direction of the tablet dispensing measures; bottom plates provided at a lower opening of each of the tablet dispensing measures, the bottom plate being movable to a closed position where the bottom plate closes the lower opening of the tablet dispensing measure to hold the tablets in the tablet dispensing measure, the bottom plate further being movable to an open position where the bottom plate opens the lower opening of the tablet dispensing measure to drop the tablets to the packing part, an upper surface of the bottom plate being processed for enhancing a surface roughness; a fixed plate disposed below the tablet dispensing member; and a drive device for moving the tablet dispensing member in the column direction of the tablet dispensing measure, wherein when the tablet dispensing measure reaches a leading end of the fixed plate by a movement of the tablet dispensing member caused by the drive device, the bottom plate is moved from the closed position to the open position.