Abstract: Apparatus for filling a solid drug, such as tablets, into a predetermined vial includes a rotary plate with a plurality of receiving sections formed on the upper surface of this rotary plate. The receiving sections are disposed under a plurality of tablet cases for receiving the solid drugs discharged from the tablet cases. Discharge orifices are formed through the bottom portions of the respective receiving sections and a chute guides the solid drugs from an orifice to a predetermined vial. A shutter opens or closes this orifice or the chute. When the solid drug is discharged from the tablet case, the rotary plate is rotated by a control device to adjust the position of the receiving section as the solid drug falling from the tablet case is dropped in the predetermined receiving section.

Abstract: A heat insulating structure comprising a vacuum insulator fixed to a surface on which the vacuum insulator is to be applied is provided for the purpose of improving the workability in fixing the vacuum insulator to the surface to be applied. A thermally adherable layer comprising a thermally adherable material is made between the vacuum insulator and the surface to be applied, and the thermally adherable layer is heated and melted whereby the vacuum insulator is fixed to the surface to be applied.

Abstract: A heat insulating structure comprising a vacuum insulator fixed to a surface on which the vacuum insulator is to be applied is provided for the purpose of improving the workability in fixing the vacuum insulator to the surface to be applied. A thermally adherable layer comprising a thermally adherable material is made between the vacuum insulator and the surface to be applied, and the thermally adherable layer is heated and melted whereby the vacuum insulator is fixed to the surface to be applied.

Abstract: A medication packaging apparatus for packaging solid medications specified by prescriptions at a hospital, pharmacy, etc. The medication packaging apparatus is equipped with: a plurality of tablet cases which hold solid medications separately by type; a turntable which is located under the tablet cases and which turns to receive and gather the medications at the outer periphery thereof by the centrifugal force thereof; a guide which is formed around the turntable and which has a dispensing port; and a heat sealing mechanism for forming a roll of thermally weldable packaging paper into small bags in succession. The mechanism for collecting the medications which have been released from the tablet cases can be made thinner and therefore, the entire medication packaging apparatus can be made smaller.