Seamless capsule and manufacturing method therefor
AssigneeMorishita Jintan Co., Ltd.
InventorsRyosei Kamaguchi, Osami Nakano, Hisaaki Hatanaka
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Abstract
The present invention is related to a seamless capsule which easily dissolves in the oral cavity etc. The present invention provides a seamless capsule comprising a capsule content solution, and a capsule shell enclosing the capsule content solution, wherein the capsule shell comprises a gelatin having a bloom value of 50 to 190 and wherein the seamless capsule has a capsule shell-dissolution time of 60 seconds or less when the dissolution time is determined by a disintegration test using water as a test solution.
Claims10
A seamless capsule comprising a capsule content solution, and a capsule shell enclosing the capsule content solution, wherein the capsule shell comprises a gelatin having a bloom value of 50 to 190 and the seamless capsule has a capsule shell-dissolution time of 60 seconds or less when the dissolution time is determined by a disintegration test using water as a test solution.
A process for producing a seamless capsule, comprising the following steps;
- a step of simultaneously extruding both the capsule content solution from a first nozzle and a preparation solution of the capsule shell from a second nozzle to form a composite jet, using a multiple nozzle comprising a first nozzle and a second nozzle having concentrically increasing diameters, and
- a step of pouring the composite jet into a cooling solution, wherein
- the multiple nozzle is composed of the first nozzle and the second nozzle concentrically disposed on the periphery of the first nozzle,
- the preparation solution of the capsule shell comprises a gelatin having a bloom value of 50 to 190, water and ethanol, and
- a mass ratio of water and ethanol is within the range of 40/60 to 95/5 in water/ethanol.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.