Method and packaging device for packaging discrete medicaments in pouches
AssigneeVmi Holland B.V.
InventorsMartinus Johannes Donatus Brakkee, Peter Van Roon, Aalf Wijnia, Henk Jan Spijkerboer, Cornelis Jan Jochemsen, Martijn Roest
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Abstract
A method for packaging discrete medicaments in pouches in a packaging device includes transporting the elongated web along a web trajectory, printing information on the elongated web related, feeding the discrete medicaments to the elongated web, inspecting the elongated web to determine whether there is a fault related to the elongated web, and in response to a fault being detected, printing a fault indication or a fault symbol on the elongated web, and forming an empty pouch at the position of the fault indication or fault symbol.
Claims21
Method for packaging discrete medicaments in pouches in a packaging device,
- wherein the packaging device is configured to form and fill the pouches in an elongated web to contain the medicaments,
- wherein the packaging device comprises a web drive for transport of the elongated web in a transport direction over a web trajectory, and along the web trajectory in the transport direction a printing station and a filling station, wherein the printing station comprises a printer for printing information on the elongated web, and wherein the filling station is configured to feed the discrete medicaments to the elongated web,
- wherein the method comprises the following steps:
- transporting the elongated web along the web trajectory in the transport direction by means of the web drive whereby the elongated web passes the printing station and the filling station,
- printing information on the elongated web by means of the printer, wherein the printed information on the elongated web is related to the discrete medicaments that are subsequently fed to the elongated web at the position of the printed information on the elongated web, and
- feeding the discrete medicaments to the elongated web at the filling station at the position of the related printed information,
- wherein a minimal order size of pouches is set, wherein for an order having a first amount of pouches to be filled with discrete medicaments that is lower than the minimal order size, for the pouches to be filled the information is printed that is related to the discrete medicaments that is subsequently fed to the elongated web at the position of the printed information on the elongated web, followed by a second amount of empty pouches in the elongated web, wherein the sum of the first amount and the second amount are equal to the minimal order size.
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