Medicine Feeder and Medicine Feeding Unit

摘要

Provided is a medicine feeder configured to feed solid medicines with an elongated shape, the medicine feeder including: a medicine container configured to contain the medicines, the medicine container having a medicine outlet that is formed in a bottom part and ejects the medicines; a medicine delivering part that is provided inside the medicine container and is rotatable about an axis intersecting the bottom part of the medicine container, the medicine delivering part having a plurality of medicine receiving spaces that are arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction about the axis and contain the medicines one by one in an erected state, the medicine delivering part being configured to deliver the medicines contained in the respective medicine receiving spaces to the medicine outlet by being driven to rotate about the axis; and a medicine entry preventing part that is provided in the medicine container and has flexibility, the medicine entry preventing part being configured to prevent the medicines from entering one of the plurality of medicine receiving spaces that coincides with the medicine outlet by covering over the medicine receiving space, wherein a bulkhead portion partitioning between each two of the medicine receiving spaces that are adjacent in the circumferential direction about the axis is arranged between the medicine receiving spaces, and the bulkhead portion has a shape such that an upper surface of a portion close to a rear side in the rotational direction of the medicine delivering part rises toward a direction opposite to the rotational direction of the medicine delivering part.