A hard-gelatin capsule filling machine for filling two piece capsules is described
wherein empty capsules from a random bulk supply thereof, in a hopper, are fed in succession from a feeding station to an uncapping station and then to a filling station and then to a re-capping station and then to an ejection station in a single continuously rotating phase of the machine. The fill for each capsule body is compressed into a soft slug in a die for subsequent insertion into the capsule body during its passage through the filling station.
A method of operating a hard-gelatin capsule filling machine for filling two piece capsules and of the kind in which the fill is compressed into a soft slug which is thereafter inserted into the bottom part or body of the capsulecharacterised in that the capsules are uncapped, filled, re-capped and thereafter ejected from the machine in a single, continuously rotating phase of the machine.
According to a further feature of this invention each slug of fill is formed in a die between upper and lower punches and is delivered into a capsule body through the lower end of the die by the upper punch.
This invention relates to hard-galatin-capsule filling machines and is concerned with hard-galatin-capsule filling machines and of the kind (hereinafter referred to as "the kind described") in which the fill is compressed into a soft slug which is thereafterinserted into the bottom part or body of the capsule.
An object of this invention is to provide an improved, fully automatic, continuous motion machine of the kind described capable of achieving a high output of filled capsules in a given time.