Cutting – With product handling means – Including means to form or hold pile of product pieces
Reexamination Certificate
2008-05-12
2009-06-02
Choi, Stephen (Department: 3724)
Cutting
With product handling means
Including means to form or hold pile of product pieces
C083S091000, C083S095000, C083S367000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07540222
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for cutting a series of medicine packets discharged from an automatic medicine packaging machine into individual doses to automatically load the cut medicine packets on a loading device is disclosed. The apparatus includes a feeding device for feeding the series of medicine packets from the upper side of a main body to a stepped part at the other side of the main body, a cutting device for cutting the series of medicine packets by one medicine packet at the stepped part, a loading device for loading the medicine packets, cut by the cutting device and dropped to the stepped part, by a predetermined number, and a controller including a position sensor for detecting a position of the hole in the medicine packet and controlling the feeding device and the cutting device based on the position information of the hole of the medicine packets inputted from the position sensor.
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Choi Stephen
JVM Co., Ltd.
Oblon & Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt P.C.
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