Machine for filling capsules with a powdered product
AssigneeHpf S.R.L.
InventorErnesto Gamberini
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Abstract
On a continuous machine for filling the bottom shells of capsules with a powdered product, the bottom shells are conveyed so as to be equally spaced along a given path with a first spacing; the machine having a number of metering wheels rotating about respective parallel axes, and each having a respective number of metering devices moving with the relative metering wheel along a relative portion of the path, each in time with a relative bottom shell; and the metering devices being equally spaced about the relative axis with a second spacing substantially equal to the product of the number of metering wheels and the first spacing.
Claims5
A machine for filling capsules (2) with a powdered product, each capsule (2) comprising a bottom shell (3) and a top shell (4);
- the machine comprising a conveyor (9) moving continuously along a given path (T1) and having a number of pockets (14) equally spaced along said path (T1) with a first spacing (p1), and each for receiving a respective bottom shell (3);
- and being characterized by also comprising a number (n) of metering wheels (15) rotating continuously about respective axes (12) substantially parallel to one another;
- each said metering wheel (15) having a number of metering devices (17) equally spaced about the relative said axis (12) with a second spacing (p2), and movable with the relative metering wheel (15) along a relative portion of said path (T1), each in time with a relative said pocket (14), to feed said product into a relative said bottom shell (3);
- said second spacing (p2) being equal to the product of said number (n) of metering wheels (15) and said first spacing (p1).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.