Cap feeding device

• Main Author: YUYAMA SHOJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 27.05.2009
• Subjects: APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILARCONTAINERS; BABY COMFORTERS; BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICALPURPOSES; CONVEYING; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGINGPHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL ORADMINISTERING FORMS; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; LIQUID HANDLING; MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGINGARTICLES OR MATERIALS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS; OPENING, CLOSING; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; STORING; TRANSPORTING; UNPACKING

A cap supply device having a simple and inexpensive structure and capable of supplying caps with all of the caps directed in the same direction. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] The cap supply device has received in it a large number of the caps (3) for closing vials filled with tablets. The device takes out the caps (3) on a piece by piece basis and supplies them to capping sections. The cap supply device has a receiving section (104) for receiving the large number of the caps (3) and a discharge unit (106) provided in the receiving section (104). The discharge unit (106) has an endless member (108) placed in the receiving section (104) in a vertically circulatable manner and also has support members (109) provided at the endless member (108) at regular intervals. In the discharge unit (106), the caps (3) are vertically held at the support members (109) with the openings of the caps (3) held directed to the opposite side of the endless member (108), and the caps (3) are lifted upward and discharged from the rece