US 7,407,050 B2Granted

Tablet filling device and PTP packaging machine

AssigneeCkd Corporation

InventorsShunji Maruyama, Hisanao Wate

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Abstract

It is to provide a tablet filling device having improved quality and productivity by correctly filling the tablets in pocket parts of a container film even when the tablets have a non-circular shape such as triangle. The tablet filling device 52 has a rotary drum 2 provided with holding recesses 3 for storing the tablets 1 and transferring the tablets 1 to the downstream for filling the tablet 1 in a pocket part 44 of a container film 41. The holding recess 3 has a tablet receptacle section 3a that is larger than the tablet 1 supplied from a tablet feeding chute 5, and a posture correction section 3b that corrects the posture of the tablet 1 received in the tablet receptacle section 3a during the conveyance.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A tablet filling device for filling a tablet into a pocket part of a container film by transferring the tablet to downstream, comprising:

a tablet feeding chute to supply tablets;
and
a rotary drum having holding recesses for holding the tablets from the tablet feeding chute;
wherein said holding recess has a tablet receptacle section that is larger than the tablet supplied from the tablet feeding chute, a posture correction section that corrects the posture of the tablet received in the tablet receptacle section during conveyance so that the pointed corner of the tablet will face the downstream of the conveyance;
and
wherein said posture correction section is formed so that it is tapered toward a tablet transfer direction to correspond to said pointed corner of the tablet, and a bottom of said tablet receptacle section and a bottom of said posture correction section are flush with one another, and the tablet received by said tablet receptacle section is moved to said posture correction section by its own weight upon rotation of said rotary drum.

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Facts

Application: 11/243,555Filed 5 Oct 2005
Priority: JP 2003-13438513 May 2003
Published: US 2006/0032861 A116 Feb 2006
Granted: 5 Aug 2008
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

B65B 35/56
Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged: orientating, i.e. changing the attitude of, articles, e.g. of non-uniform…
B65B 9/045
One or both webs being formed with pockets for the reception of the articles, or of the quantities of material: for single articles, e.g. tablets
B65B 35/26
Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles: by rotary conveyors
B65B
Machines, apparatus or devices for, or methods of, packaging articles or materials

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