Package making – Methods – With contents treating
Patent
1994-02-07
1997-01-28
Moon, Daniel
Package making
Methods
With contents treating
53 54, 53111R, 53244, 53475, 738658, 198588, 198812, 209 121, 264 401, B65B 6300
Patent
active
055968651
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The invention relates to a method for the removal and further processing of tablets or pills or the like coming from a tablet press or from a pill press into a plurality of containers, disposed on a small restricted surface support area, and to a device for the performance of the method.
STATE OF THE ART
The tablets or pills coming from a tablet press or a pill press have to be further treated in the following and be removed. It is known for this purpose to transport the tablets or pills into a deburring and dust-removing station, where the tablets or pills are usually placed with a distributing guide onto two conveyor belts which in turn transport the tablets or pills again upwardly and feed the tablets or pills either to a metal testing apparatus or to a tablet testing device. In the following, the tablets or pills are fed to a distributor system and are filled into containers, where the containers are usually brought to the filling location in a long sequential row on conveyor belts. In general, the filled containers or barrels have to be individually removed by the operating personnel.
The disadvantage of the conventional handling of the tablets or pills comprises that the tablets have to be lifted up several times on their path of removal and of further processing, be it by way of conveyor belts or be it by way of air streams.
Similarly, the known conveyors for the handling of tablets or pills require lots of space corresponding to their length for their positioning and the known conveyors are not suitable to provide the feeding of a plurality of containers on a most narrow space, where the plurality of containers are tightly packed into a small restricted area. Therefore, the different required aggregates in connection with the tablet production and pill production are disposed around the tablet press or the pill press, and therefore the overall space requirement for a tablet press or a pill press together with all required aggregates, including the filling of the tablets or pills into the containers, is substantial.
A device for the calibrated measuring and sorting of tablets has become known from the U.S. Pat. No. 3,294,235, which device measures the size of the individual tablets, wherein the tablets are transported for the performance of the measuring process downwardly by way of gravity force.
TECHNICAL PURPOSE
It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of the initially recited kind, which allows to remove and to further process tablets or pills, including the filling of the containers or barrels, on a smallest possible restricted area. Furthermore, it is an object of the invention to provide a device, which combines all aggregates, required for the removal and the further processing of the tablets or pills after the pressing process, on a smallest possible restricted area including the filling of the containers or barrels.
The solution of the object comprises according to the invention that the tablets or pills are transported upwardly after leaving the tablet press or the pill press and then the tablets or pills are passing from top to bottom through an obliquely inclined disposed deburring and dustremoving station, as well as a distributing guide for the subdivision of the flow of tablets or pills into two partial streams based solely on the force of gravity without the application of further energy. The two partial streams are either fed to a metal testing apparatus or to a tablet testing device or to a pill testing device with a sample collector. The tablets or pills found to be faultless in the metal testing apparatus are taken further by gravity to a conveyor belt, where the conveyor belt is directed toward a predetermined container and fills the tablets or pills into the container.
An apparatus for the performance of the method comprises a standing column, where a transport device leads to the upper end of the standing column. The transport device adjoins into a deburring and dust-removing station, disposed on top of the standing column. The debur
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Kasper Horst M.
Moon Daniel
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