Printing apparatus for medicine bag

An apparatus for printing information on medicine bags, said apparatus comprising:

• a plurality of medicine bag containers to contain different types of medicine bags;
• a plurality of printers, each being operable to print information on a medicine bag;
• a plurality of conveyors, each said conveyor being paired with a respective said printer, and each said conveyor being operable to convey a medicine bag from an inlet thereof to an outlet thereof and then to said respective printer;
• a plurality of introducing portions defining medicine bag discharge paths aligned with respective said containers;
• each said conveyor being pivotable at said outlet thereof such that said inlet thereof is selectively alignable with a selected one of plural of said introducing portions;
• said introducing portions including at least one switching member that is pivotable at an inlet thereof to enable an outlet thereof to be aligned selectively with said inlet of any one of said conveyors, such that a medicine bag from the said container aligned with said at least one switching member can be conveyed selectively by any one of said conveyors to the respective said printer;
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• control means, operatively connected to said containers, said conveyors and said printers, for selecting a given said container, for causing one said conveyor to pivot to a position to receive a medicine bag from said given container, for causing said one conveyor to convey the medicine bag to one said printer paired with said one conveyor, and for causing said one printer to print information on the medicine bag.