Triturate tablet machine
AssigneeVector Corporation
InventorJeffrey E. Fehlhafer
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Abstract
A triturate tablet machine for molding wet powder tablets which has five processing stations which respectively supply wet powder, mold the wet powder into openings in a mold plate, lubricate both ends of the tablets, bevel each end of the tablets and eject the tablets so as to continuously and automatically manufacture wet powder tablets.
Claims13
A triturate tablet machine for making bevelled triturate tablets comprising, a frame, a table formed with a plurality of tablet holes rotatably supported by said frame, a driving means connected to said table for intermittently rotating said table, a wet triturate station mounted on said frame having means for supplying wet triturate material onto said table, a molding station mounted on said frame adjacent said wet triturate station and having means for pressing said wet triturate material into some of said plurality of tablet holes of said table, a powder station mounted on said frame adjacent said molding station and having means for distributing lubricating powder over both ends of said wet triturate material in said plurality of holes, a beveling station mounted on said frame adjacent said powder station and having means including upper and lower beveling punches which engage the powdered wet triturate material in said holes to bevel said powdered wet triturate material, and an ejector station mounted on said frame between said wet triturate station and said beveling station and having means including ejectors for ejecting the bevelled triturate tablets from the holes in said table.
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