Tablet supplying apparatus for tablet sorting and counting machine

Abstract

A tablet supplying apparatus for a tablet dispensing system includes a conveyer belt carried over on a driving roller and a driven roller, a plurality of tablet receiving trays, and a plurality of hoppers. A tablet release means is provided adjacent to a rear portion of said conveyer belt for releasing tablets in a plurality of tablet input ports correspondingly placed above the tablet receiving trays. The hoppers are attached to a guide which is cross-fixed between lower portions of a pair of side plates forming the frame. Each of the hopper includes a release guide, a lever and a control plate unitary therewith. The release guide is raised (opened) by a corresponding one of a plurality of cams regularly carried on a cam shaft driven by a first motor. said tablet release means including a cam lever, said cam lever making an angular movement in accordance with an eccentric cam engagedly connected to a second motor, said cam lever hingedly connected to said frame, an upper portion of said cam lever being hookable into a hooker opening formed in a corresponding portion of a release plate disposed underneath said tablet input ports, whereby said release plate is pulled by said cam lever so that a plurality of release openings formed through said release plate correspond to said tablet input ports thereabove for thereby facilitating the tablet releasing therethrough.