Patent ID: 8607537

Claim:
A medicine packaging machine comprising: a medicine accommodating mechanism for accommodating plural medicines; a chute for guiding medicines arbitrarily taken out from the medicine accommodating mechanism to a medicine packaging sheet while the medicine packaging sheet is horizontally fed; a medicine packaging mechanism having a heater for thermally welding the medicine packaging sheet fed horizontally to the medicine packaging mechanism; a cutting mechanism located on the downstream side of the medicine packaging mechanism for cutting at a predetermined position and separating package bag formed by thermally welding the medicine packaging sheet, wherein the cutting mechanism has a fixed member for receiving the medicine packaging sheet and a movable member for pinching and fixing the medicine packaging sheet in cooperation with the fixed member, the movable member has a cutting blade which is configured to extend vertically in the movable member and freely protrude horizontally from the movable member to the fixed member, and the cutting blade is horizontally pushed from the movable member to the horizontally fed medicine packaging sheet to push and cut the medicine packaging sheet while the medicine packaging sheet is pinched and fixed by the fixed member and the movable member; and a draw-in roller which is disposed between the medicine packaging mechanism and the cutting mechanism and draws the medicine packaging sheet having the medicines put therein from the medicine packaging mechanism into the cutting mechanism while feeding the medicine packaging sheet horizontally under tension.