Heating elevator for capsule making machine
AssigneeTechnophar Equipment & Service Limited
InventorsHerman Victorov, Ioan Dumitru Balc
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Abstract
A capsule-making system for the manufacture of capsules for pharmaceutical use includes an elevator for manipulating and uniformly heating a plurality of vertically stacked pin bars prior to dipping. The heated elevator station is positioned before the dipping station as part of the capsule-making machine. The elevator comprises a series of vertically stacked pin bars. A series of oil lines carrying hot oil is provided is within the elevator such that each of the pin bars is evenly heated. More than one elevator (i.e., more than one pin bar stack) may be situated in a side-by-side manner. Each elevator stack is selectively moved up or down by means of one or more hydraulic cylinders.
Claims54
A pin bar heater elevator assembly for use with a capsule making machine, the assembly comprising:
- a pin bar rack including brackets for simultaneously supporting at least two empty pin bars;
- a pin bar elevator in operative association with said pin bar rack, said pin bar elevator including means for moving said pin bar rack between a first position and a second position;
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- means for heating said empty pin bars supported by said brackets.
A pin bar heater elevator assembly for a capsule making machine, the machine including a pin bar pusher for pushing an empty pin bar and a dipping assembly for receiving a pin bar and for dipping the received pin bar into a capsule-forming composition, the elevator assembly comprising:
- a pin bar elevator;
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- a pin bar rack in operative association with said pin bar elevator, said pin bar rack being selectively movable by said pin bar elevator between a first position and a second position,
- whereby said pin bar rack is operatively associated with the pin bar pusher and the dipping assembly such that the pin bar pusher can push an empty pin bar into the pin bar rack and can thereafter push an empty pin bar toward the dipping assembly.
A capsule making machine comprising an elevator assembly for receiving at least two pin bars, said elevator assembly movable in a linear direction with periodic hesitations for receiving and expelling said pin bars, said elevator assembly simultaneously altering a temperature of said pin bars.
An apparatus comprising:
- a set of medicinal capsule forming members;
- a rack operably receiving said members, said members entering said rack in a first direction;
- a heating device operably heating said rack;
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- an actuation mechanism operably moving said rack in a second direction offset from said first direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.