Capsule sealing apparatus

A capsule sealing apparatus comprising:

• a capsule supplying device for intermittently supplying a prescribed number of capsules aligned in the same direction at a time, each capsule including a cap and a body, and charged with contents with the cap closing the body;
• a slat including a plurality of capsule resting slits for individually accommodating the capsules supplied from the capsule supplying device, each capsule resting slit including an opening at its bottom;
• a capsule conveyor unit for linearly reciprocating the slat, the capsules supplied from the capsule supplying device being individually accommodated in respective capsule resting slits during the travel of the slat;
• a capsule sealing device for coating the seams between their caps and bodies of the capsules individually accommodated in respective capsule resting slits with a sealing liquid through the openings at the bottoms of the slits in the slat, the capsule sealing device being disposed in an area where the slats are moved by the capsule conveyor unit;
• a plurality of capsule retaining plates onto which all the capsules in each capsule resting slit of the slat are transferred, the plates horizontally being disposed at a return point of the slat;
• a drying device for vertically circulating the capsule retaining plate with the charged capsules thereon in the horizontal posture so as to dry the sealing liquid applied on each capsule;
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• a capsule discharging device for discharging the capsules outside the drying device, the sealing liquid of the capsules being dried on the capsule retaining plate of the drying device.