Patent ID: 7407050

Claim:
A tablet filling device for filling a tablet into a pocket part of a container film by transferring the tablet to downstream, comprising: a tablet feeding chute to supply tablets; and a rotary drum having holding recesses for holding the tablets from the tablet feeding chute; wherein said holding recess has a tablet receptacle section that is larger than the tablet supplied from the tablet feeding chute, a posture correction section that corrects the posture of the tablet received in the tablet receptacle section during conveyance so that the pointed corner of the tablet will face the downstream of the conveyance; and wherein said posture correction section is formed so that it is tapered toward a tablet transfer direction to correspond to said pointed corner of the tablet, and a bottom of said tablet receptacle section and a bottom of said posture correction section are flush with one another, and the tablet received by said tablet receptacle section is moved to said posture correction section by its own weight upon rotation of said rotary drum.