Patent ID: 7028447

Claim:
A paper package thermal printer of an automatic tablet packing machine in which when tablets, accommodated in accommodating recesses formed at the upper side of a case enclosing inner components of the automatic tablet packing machine, are fallen into a hopper disposed under the accommodating recesses, and a package paper wound around a reel and folded in two by an idle roller and a folding member is traveled, the tablets are inserted into the folded package paper, the vertical sides and the top side of the folded package paper are sealed by heat, and the sealed vertical sides of the package paper are formed with cutting lines having a plurality of holes penetrated therethrough, while the package paper passes between cylindrical sealing rollers having heaters, so as to complete the packaging of the tablets, the paper package thermal printer comprising: a supporting frame vertically mounted in the case and formed with a mounting hole; an actuating plate installed at the front side of the mounting hole; guide rails installed at sides of the actuating plate; guides installed at sides of the mounting hole, and engaged with the guide rails so as to support the actuating plate; a driving motor installed at a rear lower side of the supporting frame and having an eccentric cam coming in contact with an elevating roller mounted at a rear side of the actuating plate so as to raise the actuating plate; wheels mounted at front sides of the actuating plate; a ribbon tape wound around the wheels fed by driving force transmitted from a second motor; a contact roller installed at a front upper portion of the supporting frame; and a thermal print head installed at a front upper portion of the actuating plate; wherein the thermal print head and the ribbon tape disposed at an upper portion thereof are raised together so as to closely attach the ribbon tape to a lower surface of the package paper passing under the contact roller, so that information inputted into the thermal print head is transferred to the package paper by heat and characters are printed on the package paper when the actuating plate is raised.