PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a discharge mechanism in order so that PTP-packed medicines 8 or the like can be sequentially discharged stably at high speed while using a simple hook method as well.SOLUTION: In the PTP cassette 10, PTP-packed medicines 8 are each set horizontally, and they are vertically put on each other to be housed and held in alignment, so that they are set laterally to be discharged forward from the lowest one and on. It is provided with a pair of inner bottom plates 15 and 15 for holding the PTP-packed medicines 8 as they are placed on their upper surface, a hook member 19 to catch a rear end of the lowest one of the PTP-packed medicines, and an endless belt 16 to send the hook member 19 forward along the pair of inner bottom plates 15 and 15. The hook member 19 includes a flexible member provided with an action part 19c in the form of an inverse hook which returns in an acute angle, and extended from a base end part 19a over the action part 19c up to a chip part 19d. When the action part 19c is in a no-load state, it is apart from the endless belt 16. When it interferes with the PTP-packed medicine 8, it reacts to approach the endless belt 16.COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT【課題】簡便な引っ掛け手法を踏襲しつつも、PTP包装剤8等を安定かつ高速に順次排出できるよう、順次排出機構を更に改良する【解決手段】PTP包装剤8を各々は横にしたうえで縦に積み重ねて整列収納させた状態で保持するとともに下から順に横送りして前方へ排出するPTPカセット10に、PTP包装剤8を上面に載せて保持する内底板対15,15と、PTP包装剤8のうち最下のものの後端を引っ掛ける引掛部材19と、引掛部材19を内底板対15,15に沿って前送りする無端ベルト16とを備える。引掛部材19は、鋭角に戻る逆鉤状の作用部19cを具備するとともに基端部19aから作用部19cを越えてその先の先端部19dまで伸びた可撓性部材からなり、作用部19cが無負荷状態では無端ベルト16から離れているがPTP包装剤8との干渉時には反力によって無端ベルト16側へ寄るようになっている。【選択図】 図1
