Open and closing apparatus of hopper for automatic tablet sorting and counting machine

An automatic tablet dispenser controlled by a main computer comprising:

• a) a tablet dropping unit having a drum communicating with a plurality of release holes which fixate a plurality of tablet storing tablet cassettes, said release holes dropping the tablets released from the tablet cassettes;
• b) a discharge hopper having a release port provided through a lower portion of said discharge hopper, and a tablet release door for swinging down to open and swinging up to close the release port, wherein the tablets released from the tablet dropping unit are temporarily gathered in the tablet release hopper when the release door is closed, wherein the discharge hopper is formed of a front panel having a lower front panel line, a rear panel having a lower rear panel line, and a pair of side panels each having a lower side panel line, wherein said each panel line defines the release port through the lower portion of said discharge hopper, wherein the release door is hingedly engaged to the lower front panel line, wherein the lower front panel line is formed higher in horizontal level than the lower rear panel line, whereby the swinging operation of the release door can be smoothly implemented with less momentum;
• c) a door control for elastically controlling the swinging of the release door of the discharge hopper;
• d) a heater assembly for packaging the tablets from the discharge hopper in a packaging paper;
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• e) a motor driving the door control and the heater assembly.