Patent ID: 7493744

Claim:
A medicine wrapping machine for wrapping a medicine in a belt-shaped transparent composite plastic sheet which includes one of a polyethylene terephthalate sheet and a bi-axially oriented polypropylene sheet and having a minute flaw formed on said one of the polyethylene terephthalate sheet and the bi-axially oriented polypropylene sheet, and each of side edge parts of said composite sheet is of wavy or saw-tooth shape; said machine including an apparatus for forming from said belt-shaped sheet a plurality of individual wrapping bags each to receive a medicine, with the wavy or saw-tooth shape side edge parts of the belt-shaped medicine wrapping sheet are forming triangular notches when the sheet is folded and the side edge parts are overlapped and are joined and thermally fused to each other along the length of the belt-shaped wrapping sheet except in the area of the triangular notches, thermally fused areas along the length of the sheet in an orthogonal direction to a longitudinal direction of the wrapping sheet to form individual wrapping bags of a predetermined width, each bag to receive the medicine therein; and lines of perforations across said belt-shaped sheet along its length to permit separation of the individual wrapping bags.