Refined distributor unit
AssigneeI.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.P.A.
InventorIvano Baroncini
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Abstract
Refinements made to distributor units which serve to continuously transfer and position tablets or pills in organized alveoli in an advancing strip, the advancing strip presenting its alveoli on each occasion in correspondence with holes positioned radially in a distributor disk. The distributor disk having holes is associated with a motor which supplies a rotation motion by an intermediate connector. The intermediate connector is connected stably to the distributor disk and detachably, by an intermediate member, to the motor which supplies the rotation motion.
Claims12
A refined distributor unit which serves to continuously transfer and position tablets or pills in organized alveoli in an advancing strip, said distributor unit comprising:
- said advancing strip presenting the alveoli in correspondence with organized holes positioned radially in a rotatable distributor disk to temporarily house said tablets or pills, said advancing strip being arranged below the distributor disk and advancing along an advancement direction;
- said distributor disk having setting holes, wherein said distributor disk is associated with a motor which supplies a rotation motion to rotate the distributor disk at a speed coordinated with the advancing of the advancing strip to transfer the tablets or pills from the organized holes of the distributor disk to the alveoli of the strip;
- the motor being connected to the distributor disk by an intermediate connector, said intermediate connector being stably connected to the distributor disk and detachably connected, by an intermediate member, to the motor which supplies the rotation motion;
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- an assembly to provide the stable connection between the distributor disk and the intermediate connector by (i) a female seating configured to receive an axial central ridge of the distributor disk for centering the intermediate connector, (ii) a supporting or leveling member, and (iii) a circumferential positioner,
- wherein the distributor disk is provided with the axial central ridge able to engage the female seating, and the stable connection between the distributor disk and the intermediate connector is facilitated by the circumferential positioner having positioning pins on the distributor disk and the intermediate connector and by the supporting or leveling member between the positioning pins.
A refined distributor unit comprising:
- an advancing strip presenting alveoli in correspondence with organized holes positioned radially in a rotatable distributor disk to temporarily house tablets or pills, said advancing strip being arranged below the distributor disk and advancing along an advancement direction,
- said distributor disk having setting holes, wherein said distributor disk is associated with a motor which supplies a rotation motion to rotate the distributor disk at a speed coordinated with the advancing of the advancing strip along the advancing direction to transfer the tablets or pills from the organized holes of the distributor disk to the alveoli of the strip;
- the motor being connected to the distributor disk by an intermediate connector, the intermediate connector being stably connected to the distributor disk and detachably to the motor which supplies the rotation motion, wherein the intermediate connector includes a male-female centering member;
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- an assembly to provide the stable connection between the distributor disk and the intermediate connector having at least a female seating configured to receive an axial central ridge of the distributor disk for centering the intermediate connector, a supporting or leveling member, and a circumferential positioner,
- wherein the distributor disk is provided with the axial central ridge able to engage the female seating, and the stable connection between the distributor disk and the intermediate connector is facilitated by the circumferential positioner having positioning pins on the distributor disk and the intermediate connector and by the supporting or leveling member between the positioning pins.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.