LOADING OF BLISTER SHEETS

摘要

Apparatus (14) for loading two blister sheets (10 and 11) with the same prescribed medication doses in the same blister cavities, has a support table (9) provided with parallel lines of apertures in its upper face for receiving respective blisters of two blister sheets arranged side-by-side in the same horizontal plane. A circular array of containers (5) can be indexed around its vertical axis to bring a selected container to a discharge position (7). A mechanism (12) operates to move the support table (9) horizontally about perpendicular axes so that a chosen blister cavity can be located beneath the discharge position (7). A doctor's prescription (1) is converted by an encoder (2) into a binary code (3) read by a code reader (4) forming part of the apparatus (14). A computer (8) controls the apparatus so that the required medication doses prescribed by a doctor are loaded into the cavities of corresponding blisters of the two blister sheets. The speed of loading two blister sheets which are to be identical, can thereby be reduced.