CN102803074B - Blister sheet loading apparatus with bounce prevention means - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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- B65B5/00—Packaging individual articles in containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars
- B65B5/10—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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- A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
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Abstract
Apparatus for loading medication doses (4') into a cavity (15') of a blister sheet (12') made from a resilient plastics material, is provided with a number of horizontally-arranged containers one of which is shown at (6'). Each container can be operated to release a solid medication dose (4') into a cavity (15') of a selected blister. The blister sheet to have its cavities loaded with medication doses is supported horizontally on a table spaced beneath the level at which the containers (6') are located. A thick horizontal plate (1) is disposed between the level of the containers and the level of the table, and an array of inclined and axially-parallel bores (2') are formed through the plate. The upper ends of the bore associated with each blister cavity can be located beneath the container which is to deliver a dose to the cavity so that a released dose travels down the bore and impacts against one side of the bore which acts to deflect the dose and thus reduce its vertical momentum. The dose is released from the lower end of the bore and impacts against the inside upper, wall of the cavity. The risk of damage by impact of released doses with one another in the cavity is reduced and the risk of a dose bouncing back out of the cavity through impacting on its resilient floor is avoided.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to and prevent to upspring when wisp being loaded in the bag that can seal it subsequently.The present invention is particularly suitable for but is not suitable for uniquely preventing solid pharmaceutical dosage (such as tablet) from upspringing when falling into the bag formed by the blister of blister sheet.
For the ease of and easy to understand, the following description of the present invention is limited to and is loaded in the blister of blister sheet by drug dose on it uses, but is to be understood that the present invention can be applicable to the purposes than this specific behavior wider scope.
Background technology
By means of prepackage blister packaging material, prescription drug is supplied to patient to be generally used for enabling patient obtain supplies in some days of the prescribed dose of medicine.Dosage is outputed by doctor and is suitably packed by dispenser and thinks that patient provides the sealed blister sheet material with independent bubble-cap, and the dosage that described bubble-cap is marked with in each bubble-cap will be bestowed the date and time of patient.
It is easily to save time that mechanization prescribed dose loads blister sheet, and design the device realizing this object, this device depends on mass storage container, and described reservoir vessel has bottom opening, and tablet is discharged into blister from described bottom opening according to computerization program.Which bubble-cap of this program determination blister sheet should load specific prescription drug in particular moment.Blister sheet is usually loaded when being inverted and its bubble-cap is extended downwardly in the respective openings be located in horizontal support platform.This can in himself plane by mechanism's on even keel calibration each bubble-cap to be taken successively to the " loaded " position of arranging in advance, from container one the suitable drug dose selected can be discharged in its chamber in described " loaded " position.
Blister sheet is usually by the plastic material manufacture with natural elastic, and to rely on gravity that the dosage from selected reservoir vessel is transferred to blister be easily.But the natural elastic of blister sheet can cause dosage to upspring outside blister, if it is to be placed to the first dosage wherein, and also there is decreased dose by the dosage clashed in Already in chamber and therefore damage the risk of one or more dosage.
In order to reduce the risk of the damage occurred when dosage falls into bubble-cap, the distance that dosage is dropped through from the downside of container should be made little as far as possible in practice.But if the dosage of the operation not disturbing dividing device is bound to the risk outside chamber, the reduction of this distance is restricted.
Summary of the invention
The object of the invention is to reduce the risk dosage or other hard object body being loaded into the problem that period in blister occurs.
According to the widest aspect of the present invention, a kind of device for loading described chamber with the little hard object body be discharged into from top in the independent chamber of blister sheet, it comprises: first component, for will the independent container of described object be kept to remain on height level on the position of described blister to be loaded; Second component, for making it along towards described chamber to the path of downward-extension from described container release object; And the 3rd parts, its be arranged in described object described descent path and for its descending speed being slowed to acceptable level (limiting as follows) before it arrives described chamber.Above-mentioned statement " acceptable level " is that the object of release to be neither bound to outside chamber and for by the different objects be loaded in blister, it does not clash into the level of other object be loaded in blister yet.
Preferred feature of the present invention
Preferably, described 3rd parts are formed by deflector, described deflector between object decrement phase by described object collision to absorb the part of its momentum and its decline of therefore slowing down.
Suitably, described deflector is the form of elongated opening (such as lumen pore), described elongated opening extends downwardly through plate and angled with the plane of described plate, and under the outlet at bottom that the upper end of described opening is positioned at described container and the lower end of described opening is positioned on the " loaded " position residing for described blister of to be installed year.
Aptly, the end portion of described opening is shaped as and guides object by wherein declining with the sidewall towards described blister.
The narrowest aspect of the present invention
According to the narrowest aspect of the present invention, a kind of device for loading the chamber of blister sheet with the prescribed dose of medicine, it comprises: brace table, described brace table is with first component, described first component is used for the corresponding bubble-cap of described blister sheet to be positioned at definitely relative to the position residing for dosage reservoir vessel at below certain distance and the height level of on even keel skew, and deflector, described deflector is positioned between described reservoir vessel and described to make the dosage fallen from described reservoir vessel laterally deflect towards its blister of intended for receipt.
The preferred feature of the narrowest aspect of the present invention
Preferably, just provided by the inside face by the parallel lumen pore of the corresponding axis of thicker and horizontal plate at deflector recited above, described plate is positioned between the height level of the height level of the described blister sheet on described platform and the dosage drain position of described container.
The risk of the proper operation of described device may be disturbed in the side can slotting to avoid tablet to be deposited in described chamber with the part relative with the side that the tablet first time declined collides of the end portion of described lumen pore.
When given dose will be loaded in selected blister, the dividing device of described can operate to take described blister to be loaded and association deflector thereof to such position, is positioned under the lower end of the storage container of its releasing dosage at deflector described in described position.Then dosage collide deflector between its decrement phase, and therefore its momentum reduces.Deflector is also preferably so that decreased dose deflects towards the sidewall of selected bubble-cap.Further slow down to decline with side wall impact and make to damage self or may the risk of decreased dose of other dosage in bubble-cap further reduce.
Accompanying drawing explanation
Now the partial schematic diagram subsidiary by examples reference in more detail the present invention is described, wherein:
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Fig. 1 is the birds-eye perspective compared with slab penetrated by the array that axially parallel lumen pore is formed, described lumen pore relative to plate planar tilt and a kind of deflection machanism of form is provided;
Fig. 2 is the schematic plan view of the plate of Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 is the lateral plan of the plate of Fig. 2;
Fig. 4 is the end elevation of the plate of Fig. 2;
Schematically and show the descent path of the dosage of a lumen pore by plate with larger magnification ratio, dosage is from the dosage reservoir vessel release on plate and collide the deflector surface provided by the inwall of lumen pore dosage is deflected towards the upper inside wall of below blister for Fig. 5; And
Fig. 6 shows the modification of Fig. 5, and wherein identical part has identical Reference numeral, but they are by linging, and the lower end of lumen pore is slotted.
Detailed description of the invention
For convenience's sake present by describe example of the present invention be designed to at US Patent specification Nos.7,225,597B1; 7,426,814B2; Be combined with the device of the general design described in 7,510,099B2.These specification sheetss are incorporated in this by reference and how work to enable reader understand device and to avoid making this specification sheets bear Unnecessary detail as known in the art.In the first two of the patent specification of above-mentioned prior art, indicate bubble-cap brace table by Reference numeral " 30 " in FIG, and identical Reference numeral in Fig. 5 of this specification sheets for representing similar part.The brace table 30 of Fig. 5 with opening 14 for receiving the corresponding bubble-cap 15 being inverted blister sheet 12, described blister sheet 12 by elastic plastic material molding and blister side be down placed on brace table 30.
Fig. 1 to 4 shows and is formed by the same cylindrical and axial smooth thick nylon sheet 1 of array that forms of parallel lumen pore 2, and described lumen pore becomes the angle of about 60 degree with the plane of plate.Plate 1 is slightly less than the thickness of two centimetres.The diameter in each hole is slightly larger than 16 millimeters.These sizes or angle are not crucial, just provide as an example of the present invention.
That Fig. 5 shows the At The Height of a distance, top being located at plate 3 and be arranged in of multiple dosage reservoir vessels 6 at the dosage drain position place of the vertical top of the upper end of lumen pore 2.The mechanism's (also not showing) controlled in the lower end of container 6 and by computerization control system (not shown) allows the control operation responding control signal and the device generated by system from container 6 releasing dosage.
The operation of the first example of the present invention
The dosage of the form in hard solid tablet or pill shown in Figure 4 and 5 from the upper end of the lumen pore 2 immediately below the lower end of container 6 is fallen, and declines along the whereabouts route indicated by the dotted line shown in Fig. 5.Because the axis of lumen pore 2 becomes 30 degree with vertical line, the therefore inwall (in position 7) between its end of dosage collision lumen pore.The distance that dosage was dropped through before position of collision 7 obtained by experience and when impingement position 7 time ensure that the momentum of dosage 4 is not enough to cause damaging it.This distance of fall can change to realize this result in a device, and it will be obtained by experience and carries out changing to be applicable to dissimilar dosage.The contact of dosage and position 7 is for reducing the vertical momentum of dosage 4 and deflecting it towards its lower end downwards along inclination lumen pore 2.Below the lower end that the horizontal component that the dosage leaving lower end still has speed makes its clash into be positioned at lumen pore 2 and the sidewall of the blister associated with it.
If acceptable dose 4 drops on the bottom in chamber vertically, then dosage 4 may be bound to the risk outside chamber by the elasticity that there is the material manufacturing blister sheet.So it may cause the damage of the dividing device for mobile station 30.Also there is the dosage dropped to vertically blister from lumen pore 2 and can have enough momentum to clash into and the risk of self and/or the dosage in blister may be damaged.
First modification of described example
In the modification of the Fig. 5 in figure 6, notch 100 is located on the side relative with position 7 of lumen pore 2 lower part.This notch 100 for holding the spilling of the dosage in the blister of loading, and also for preventing dosage be deposited in the side of bubble-cap and the lower end of lumen pore 2 may be blocked.
The explanation of the implication of the word used in this specification sheets
Although be specifically described the present invention with reference to the just drug dose be loaded in blister in the above example, be to be understood that its purposes is not limited to this application.The present invention can be used in needing to reduce otherwise by with in any device of the descending speed of the hard solid objects of unexpected high-speed free fall.The deflection lumen pore of such device such as may be used for reducing the speed in tablet or other solid pharmaceutical dosage insertion relevant single dose bubble-cap, or dosage is directed to the desired locations entered needed for bubble-cap.
Claims (7)
1. one kind is loaded the device in described chamber for using the dissimilar little hard object body be discharged into the independent chamber of blister sheet from top, it comprises: first component, for will the independent container of described object be kept to be in height level above the position of described blister to be loaded; Second component, for making object move along the free fall path leading to described chamber downwards from described container release object; And the 3rd parts, it is arranged in the descent path of described free fall object and is set to deflector, described deflector is arranged to collide with all objects during object free fall, the descending speed of object is dropped to be enough to reduce the risk that object ejects described blister or damages each other.
2. device according to claim 1, wherein said deflector is in the form of the lumen pore tiltedly extending through horizontal plate that dips down, the upper end of described lumen pore is positioned at below the outlet at bottom of described container, and the lower end of described lumen pore is positioned at above the " loaded " position of described blister.
3. device according to claim 2, wherein said lumen pore be shaped as guide object decline from described lumen pore through and towards the upper side wall of described blister.
4. the device for the chamber of the prescribed dose loading blister sheet with dissimilar medicine, it comprises: brace table, described brace table with first component, described first component be used for the corresponding blister of described blister sheet to be positioned at definitely be in below certain distance relative to the position residing for dosage reservoir vessel and the height level of on even keel skew; And deflector, described deflector is positioned between described dosage reservoir vessel and described laterally to deflect from the free-falling dosage of described dosage reservoir vessel towards the blister being used for receiving dosage, described deflector is arranged to collide with all dosage during dosage free fall, the descending speed of dosage is dropped to be enough to reduce the risk that dosage ejects described blister or damages each other.
5. device according to claim 4, wherein said deflector is provided, between the dosage drain position that described plate is arranged in described dosage reservoir vessel and the position of described blister sheet by the inside face of the parallel inclination lumen pore of the corresponding axis extended between the upper surface and lower surface of thicker horizontal plate.
6. device according to claim 5, the end portion relative with the side that the dosage first time declined collides in wherein said lumen pore is formed with notch.
7. the device according to claim 4 or 5, it comprises dividing device, for take described dosage reservoir vessel to together with described the deflector associated with it with the selected blister by be loaded horizontally across described deflector dosage drain position below position.
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