PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tablet half cutting device having a remarkably reduced number of tablet cassetters in total by achieving the general versatility of the tablet cassetters.SOLUTION: This tablet half cutting device includes: a cutter 7 which is arranged to cross a tablet holding path 24 of a tablet holding rotor 2, and cuts each of tablets into half before the tablets are discharged from the tablet discharge path 4, the tablets being transferred by the rotation of the tablet holding rotor 2 while being held in the tablet holding path 24, and a bypass valve which is arranged on the upstream of the cutter 7, configured to be openable and closable, keeps the tablets to be held in the tablet holding path 24 in a closed state, the tablets being transferred by the rotation of the tablet holding rotor 2 while being held in the tablet holding path 24, and discharges the tablets to the tablet discharge path 4 from the tablet holding path 24 in an opened state.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】錠剤カセッタの汎用化を図ることにより、錠剤カセッタの全体数量を大幅に少なくすることのできる半錠カット装置を提供する。【解決手段】この半錠カット装置は、錠剤保持ロータ2の錠剤保持路24を横切るように配置され、錠剤保持ロータ2の回転により、錠剤保持路24に保持された状態で運ばれてくる錠剤を、当該錠剤が錠剤排出路4から排出される前に半錠にカットするカッタ7と、このカッタ7よりも上流側に配置され、開閉可能に構成され、錠剤保持ロータ2の回転により、錠剤保持路24に保持された状態で運ばれてくる錠剤を、閉状態のときには錠剤保持路24に保持された状態に維持し、開状態のときには錠剤保持路24から錠剤排出路4に排出させるバイパス弁とを備えている。【選択図】図2
