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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the dimensions of partition walls minimized, the partition walls separating between the square-shaped tablet-holders in a medicine packaging apparatus. SOLUTION: A tablet housing section 22 includes a plurality of square-shaped tablet-holders 21, respectively accommodating a dose of tablet pharmaceutical, being partitioned from each other by partition walls 24a, 24b. Below the tablet housing section 22, a movable dispensing member 36 is disposed which includes tablet dispensing square-shaped delivery spaces 42 formed therein corresponding to the square-shaped tablet-holders 21. Shutter members 34, 35 are disposed between the tablet housing section 22 and the dispensing member 36, while having no openings therein. The shutter members 34, 35 move between a holding position wherein they close the lowest end openings 21b of all the square-shaped tablet holders 21 so that the tablets are held on the top surface, and an evacuated position wherein they are separated from any and all the square-shaped tablet-holders 21 in plane vision as they release the lowest end openings 21b, making the tablets within the square-shaped tablet-holders 21 fall into the tablet dispensing square-shaped delivery space 42 through the lowest end openings 21b. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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