subject: Filling Machines For Capsule Filling [print this page] Filling machines wherein a lost motion mechanism is provided with a counteracting element to counteract forces between the driver and the filling unit to assure that the lost motion mechanism operates with lost motion. The counteracting element is provided between the lost motion mechanism and the driver and is operable during the suction stroke and inoperable during the discharge stroke.
Thisinvention 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.
A further object of this invention is to provide such a machine in which each capsule, extracted from a random bulk supply of the capsules in a hopper of the machine, is uncapped, filled, and then re-capped with the original cap.
A method of operating a hard-gelatin capsule filling machines 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.
A hard-gelatin capsule filling machines 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.
