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US 6,482,516 B1Granted
Enrobed tablet
AssigneeBanner Pharmacaps, Inc.
InventorsHani Sadek, Gregory Louis Dietel
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AssigneeBanner Pharmacaps, Inc.
InventorsHani Sadek, Gregory Louis Dietel
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A medicine tablet is described as a new article of manufacture. The tablet is enrobed in a gelatin coating formed by application of respective layers of elastic gelatin film to opposite sides of the tablet. The applied gelatin layers conform tightly to the tablet surface, bond securely to the tablet, and are sealed together in essentially edge-to-edge manner at a seal line which extends around the tablet at a desired place on the tablet. The gelatin layers can be colored differently from the tablet and differently from each other. A range of formulations are described for film which can be peelable from a tablet or other product core, and for films which bond to the core. A presently preferred formulation for producing tablets having a bonded tamper-evident coating comprises a water-based gelatin preparation having about 45% gelatin and about 9% plasticizer (glycerin and/or sorbitol) by weight, Method and apparatus for producing such new products are also described. Product cores can be dispensed on a self-timed basis into essentially simultaneous contact with two enrobing films which are supported on locally recessed coacting rotary dies. The cores contact the films adjacent a nip between the dies at places on the films which overlie die recesses which are oversize relative to the cores. The films deform around each core and are sealed by the dies to each other before the dies coact to cut the enrobed cores from the films. A core feeding mechanism can include an alignment device which causes the cores to have a desired orientation as they are handled by the dies.
An article of manufacture comprising a unitary article preform of selected shape and size and an enrobing covering fully enclosing the preform, the covering being comprised of two applied layers of preformed film material of selected thickness and composition which substantially conforms to the contours of the preform and which are sealed to each other in substantially edge to edge relation along a line which encircles the preform and which lies substantially in a common plane;
A gelatin enrobed tablet comprising a tablet core and a gelatin covering enrobing the core, the covering being comprised of two layers of preformed gelatin film which are sealed together along and terminate at a line encircling the core, the covering being comprised of gelatin and a plasticizer present in a weight ratio of from about 3:1 to about 15:1.
A gelatin enrobed tablet comprising a tablet core and a gelatin covering enrobing the core, the covering being comprised of two layers of preformed gelatin film which are sealed together along and terminate at a line encircling the core, the covering adhering to the core sufficiently tightly and securely that the covering cannot mechanically be removed from the core without removal of a part f the core.
A gelatin enrobed tablet comprising a tablet core and a gelatin covering enrobing the core, the covering being comprised of two layers of preformed gelatin film which are sealed together along and terminate at a seam line encircling the core, the covering conforming to the core contours, having no opening in it, and adhering to the core;
A gelatin enrobed tablet comprising a tablet core and a gelatin covering enrobing the core, the covering being comprised of two layers of preformed gelatin film which are sealed together along and terminate at a line encircling the core, the covering adhering to the core, the covering being nominally thicker along the seal line than elsewhere on the enrobed tablet;
A gelatin enrobed tablet comprising a tablet core and a gelatin covering enrobing the core, the covering being comprised of two layers of preformed gelatin film which are sealed together along and terminate at a line encircling the core, the covering adhering to the core, the covering being nominally thicker along the seal line than elsewhere on the enrobed tablet;
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