Apparatus for making capsule having plural chambers

Abstract

A hard capsule making apparatus consisting of cleft dipping pins, encircling stripping rings, and rotation discs having parallel grooved retainer bars, to provide a means for making and stripping novel integrally formed multiple chamber hard capsules, and a means for making and stripping novel multiple chamber hard capsules made by combining separate hard capsules of different sizes to form a single unit, fixed capsule within a capsule vehicle. The multiple chamber capsules are made of methylcellulose, gel, or other appropriate material, providing a clear, transparent, or translucent exterior wall of the body part of the multiple chamber capsule, thus providing an externally visible means for the consumer or user to detect, before use, whether the capsule has been opened after original filling and closure, by means of contrasting visible evidence of reopening, in the form of changed physical appearance of an original substance, or a substituted substance contained in at least one chamber thereof.

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