CN112022704A

CN112022704A - Capsule filling device

Info

Publication number: CN112022704A
Application number: CN202010929997.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 沈玉良
Original assignee: Anhui University of Science and Technology
Current assignee: Anhui University of Science and Technology
Priority date: 2020-09-07
Filing date: 2020-09-07
Publication date: 2020-12-04

Abstract

The invention discloses a capsule filling device, which belongs to the technical field of capsule production and comprises a conveying mechanism and a filling mechanism, wherein the filling mechanism comprises a supporting table, a gluing shell placer, a medicine injector and a glue discharging shell placer are arranged on the supporting table, the gluing shell placer, the medicine injector and the glue discharging shell placer are sequentially arranged on the supporting table along the horizontal direction of the conveying mechanism, the gluing shell placer comprises a gluing shell placing box and a first telescopic rod, and the first telescopic rod and the gluing shell placing box are fixedly connected with the gluing shell placing box and are provided with a first position sensor; the invention replaces the traditional manual filling by mutually matching the controllers and the sensors arranged on the conveying mechanism and the filling mechanism, greatly improves the filling efficiency, has simple operation, lightens the working strength of workers, and simultaneously, the flow valve arranged on the medicine injector can be matched with the controller to intelligently monitor the medicine output quantity, so that the medicine powder filled into the capsule is more accurate and correct, and the medicine taking safety is improved.

Description

Capsule filling device

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of capsule production, and particularly relates to a capsule filling device.

Background

The medicine encapsulated is generally powder or granules which have irritation to esophagus and gastric mucosa, or has bad taste, is easy to volatilize, is easy to be decomposed by saliva in oral cavity, and is easy to be inhaled into trachea, and the medicine encapsulated not only protects the medicine property of the medicine from being destroyed, but also protects digestive organs and respiratory tract, and the removal of capsule shell may cause medicine loss, medicine waste and medicine effect reduction.

In the capsule production of some small and medium-sized enterprises, most of capsules are manually filled, the manual filling causes low filling speed and low delivery efficiency, and the manual filling cannot well control the amount of powder in the capsules.

Disclosure of Invention

Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention aims to provide a capsule filling device which solves the problems of low manual filling speed and inaccurate control of the amount of medicinal powder by the mutual matching of a controller and a sensor which are arranged on a conveying mechanism and a filling mechanism.

The purpose of the invention can be realized by the following technical scheme:

a capsule filling device comprises a conveying mechanism and a filling mechanism, wherein the filling mechanism comprises a supporting table, a gluing shell placer, a medicine injector and a glue discharging shell placer are arranged on the supporting table, and the gluing shell placer, the medicine injector and the glue discharging shell placer are sequentially arranged on the supporting table along the horizontal direction of the conveying mechanism;

the upper rubber shell placing device comprises an upper rubber shell placing box and a first telescopic rod, the first telescopic rod is fixedly connected with the upper rubber shell placing box, a first position sensor is arranged on the upper rubber shell placing box, a plurality of first placing pipes are arranged at the bottom end of the upper rubber shell placing device, a first feeding hole is formed in the top end of the upper rubber shell placing box, and a first driving motor and a first controller are arranged on the first telescopic rod;

the lower plastic shell placer comprises a lower plastic shell placing box and a second telescopic rod, the second telescopic rod is fixedly connected with the lower plastic shell placing box, a second position sensor is arranged on the lower plastic shell placing box, a second feed inlet is formed in the top end of the lower plastic shell placing box, a second placing pipe is arranged at the bottom end of the lower plastic shell placing box, and a second driving motor and a second controller are arranged on the second telescopic rod;

the injection ware includes third telescopic link and explosive box, third telescopic link and explosive box fixed connection, the top of explosive box is equipped with the third feed inlet, the bottom of explosive box is equipped with a plurality of and goes out the medicine mouth, the bottom that goes out the medicine mouth can be dismantled and is connected with the injection tube, be equipped with the third position sensor on the explosive box, be equipped with third driving motor and third controller on the third telescopic link.

Further, conveying mechanism includes the carriage, be equipped with conveyer belt and fourth drive motor on the carriage, the fourth drive motor passes through the belt and is connected with the conveyer belt transmission, still be equipped with infrared inductor and PLC controller on the carriage, be equipped with a plurality of mould box on the conveyer belt.

Further, the quantity of infrared inductor is three, and three infrared inductor sets up respectively in the below of gluing shell placer, injection ware and lower glue shell placer, infrared inductor and fourth driving motor all with PLC controller electric connection.

Further, a capsule hole is formed in the die box, and soft silica gel is arranged on the inner wall of the capsule hole.

Further, be close to out the medicine mouth play on the explosive box and still be equipped with flow valve and fourth controller, be equipped with the flow instrument on the flow valve, be equipped with the watch-dog on the flow instrument, watch-dog and flow valve all with fourth controller electric connection.

Furthermore, the first driving motor and the first position sensor, the second driving motor and the second position sensor, and the third driving motor and the third position sensor are respectively electrically connected with the first controller, the second controller and the third controller.

Furthermore, the number of the first placing pipes, the second placing pipes and the medicine outlets is 64.

The invention has the beneficial effects that:

the invention replaces the traditional manual filling by mutually matching the controllers and the sensors arranged on the conveying mechanism and the filling mechanism, greatly improves the filling efficiency, has simple operation, lightens the working strength of workers, and simultaneously, the flow valve arranged on the medicine injector can be matched with the controller to intelligently monitor the medicine output quantity, so that the medicine powder filled into the capsule is more accurate and correct, and the medicine taking safety is improved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments or technical solutions in the prior art of the present invention, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a front view of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of a filling mechanism;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view of the conveying mechanism;

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the mold box;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a flow valve configuration.

The reference numbers in the figures illustrate:

1. a conveying mechanism; 2. a filling mechanism; 3. a support table; 4. a glue shell placer; 5. a medicine injector; 6. a lower rubber shell placer; 7. a carriage; 8. a conveyor belt; 9. a fourth drive motor; 10. an infrared sensor; 11. a PLC controller; 12. a mold box; 13. a capsule aperture; 14. soft silica gel; 15. a glue shell placing box; 16. a first telescopic rod; 17. a first position sensor; 18. a first placing pipe; 19. a first feed port; 20. a first drive motor; 21. placing a box for placing the rubber shell; 22. a second telescopic rod; 23. a second position sensor; 24. a second feed port; 25. a second placing pipe; 26. a second drive motor; 27. a third telescopic rod; 28. a medicine storage box; 29. a third feed inlet; 30. a medicine outlet; 31. an injection tube; 32. a third position sensor; 33. a third drive motor; 34. a first controller; 35. a second controller; 36. a third controller; 37. a flow valve; 38. a flow meter; 39. a monitor; 40. and a fourth controller.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

A capsule filling device is shown in figures 1 and 2 and comprises a conveying mechanism 1 and a filling mechanism 2, wherein the filling mechanism 2 comprises a supporting table 3, a gluing shell placer 4, a glue injector 5 and a glue shell placer 6 are arranged on the supporting table 3, and the gluing shell placer 4, the glue injector 5 and the glue shell placer 6 are sequentially arranged on the supporting table 3 along the horizontal direction of the conveying mechanism 1; as shown in fig. 3, the upper shell placer 4 comprises an upper shell placing box 15 and a first telescopic rod 16, the first telescopic rod 16 is fixedly connected with the upper shell placing box 15, a first position sensor 17 is arranged on the upper shell placing box 15, a plurality of first placing pipes 18 are arranged at the bottom end of the upper shell placer 4, a first feeding hole 19 is arranged at the top end of the upper shell placing box 15, a first driving motor 20 and a first controller 34 are arranged on the first telescopic rod 16, the first driving motor 20 and the first position sensor 17 are both electrically connected with the first controller 34, and the first controller 34 can receive signals of the first position sensor 17, so that the upper shell placer 4 is driven to place a upper shell on a mold instead of manual placement, and the operation is efficient and convenient; the lower plastic shell placer 6 comprises a lower plastic shell placing box 21 and a second telescopic rod 22, the second telescopic rod 22 is fixedly connected with the lower plastic shell placing box 21, a second position sensor 23 is arranged on the lower plastic shell placing box 21, a second feeding hole 24 is arranged at the top end of the lower plastic shell placing box 21, a second placing pipe 25 is arranged at the bottom end of the lower plastic shell placing box 21, a second driving motor 26 and a second controller 35 are arranged on the second telescopic rod 22, and the second driving motor 26 and the second position sensor 23 are both electrically connected with the second controller 35; the medicine injector 5 comprises a third telescopic rod 27 and a medicine box 28, the third telescopic rod 27 is fixedly connected with the medicine box 28, a third feeding port 29 is arranged at the top end of the medicine box 28, a plurality of medicine outlets 30 are arranged at the bottom end of the medicine box 28, an injection pipe 31 is detachably connected at the bottom end of each medicine outlet 30, a third position sensor 32 is arranged on the medicine box 28, a third driving motor 33 and a third controller 36 are arranged on the third telescopic rod 27, the third driving motor 33 and the third position sensor 32 are both electrically connected with the third controller 36, as shown in fig. 6, a flow valve 37 and a fourth controller 40 are further arranged on the medicine box 28 close to the medicine outlets 30, a flow meter 38 is arranged on the flow valve 37, a monitor 39 is arranged on the flow meter 38, the monitor 39 and the flow valve 37 are both electrically connected with the fourth controller 40, the monitor 39 can monitor the flow meter 38, and the flow rate of the flow rate meter 37 can be automatically adjusted by matching with the fourth controller 40, the capsule replaces manual powder filling, so that the powder amount in the capsule is more accurate.

As shown in fig. 4 and 5, the conveying mechanism 1 includes a conveying frame 7, a conveyor belt 8 and a fourth driving motor 9 are arranged on the conveying frame 7, the fourth driving motor 9 is in transmission connection with the conveyor belt 8 through a belt, an infrared sensor 10 and a PLC controller 11 are further arranged on the conveying frame 7, a plurality of mold boxes 12 are arranged on the conveyor belt 8, the number of the infrared sensors 10 is three, the three infrared sensors 10 are respectively arranged below the upper glue shell placer 4, the medicine injector 5 and the lower glue shell placer 6, the infrared sensors 10 and the fourth driving motor 9 are both electrically connected with the PLC controller 11, the mold boxes 12 are provided with capsule holes 13, soft silica gel 14 is arranged on the inner walls of the capsule holes 13, the number of the first placing pipes 18, the number of the second placing pipes 25 and the number of the medicine outlets 30 are 64, and are in one-to-one correspondence, so that the device can simultaneously fill a plurality of capsules, thereby facilitating and reducing the working strength of workers, the soft silica gel 14 can be placed in the capsule hole 13 to be damaged by friction, and the capsule leaving factory quality is further influenced.

When the device is used, the mold box 12 is placed into the conveyor belt 8, the fourth driving motor 9 drives the conveyor belt 8 to drive the mold box 12 to move forwards, when the mold box passes through the position of the infrared sensor 10 below the lower plastic shell placer 6, the infrared sensor 10 sends a signal to the PLC controller 11, so that the fourth driving motor 9 stops running, the second position sensor 23 on the lower plastic shell placer 6 senses the signal and then sends the signal to the second controller 35, the second controller 35 controls the second driving motor 26 to drive the second telescopic rod 22 to move downwards, and the lower plastic shell in the second placing pipe 25 is placed into the mold box 12; when the placement is completed, the fourth driving motor 9 is started to continuously drive the mold box 12 to move forwards, when the mold box 12 passes below the medicine injector 5, the infrared sensor 10 senses a signal to stop the operation of the conveyor belt 8, the third position sensor 32 on the medicine injector 5 senses a signal, and transmits a signal to the third controller 36 to drive the third driving motor 33 to drive the third telescopic rod 27 to move downwards, so as to inject the medicinal powder into the lower rubber shell in the die box 12, the flow valve 37 and the flow meter 38 arranged on the medicine injector 5 can adjust the injection amount, when the monitor 39 on the flow meter 38 monitors an abnormality in the amount of injected medicine, a signal is transmitted to the fourth controller 40, therefore, the size of the flow valve 37 is automatically adjusted, manual filling is completely replaced by intelligent operation of a machine, waste of medicinal powder is reduced, and medicinal powder injected into the capsule is more accurate; when mould box 12 moved the infrared inductor 10 department of going up rubber casing placer 4 below, first position sensor 17 on last rubber casing placer 4 experienced the signal and passed to first controller 34, first controller 34 drive first driving motor 20 makes first telescopic link 16 move down, and then with first rubber casing cover of putting the interior rubber casing of 18 and the good powder of filling in mould box 12, this device passes through mutual complete replacement manual filling of machine and controller, make filling speed more high-efficient, and easy operation, be fit for with the filling production of lower enterprise.

In the description herein, references to the description of "one embodiment," "an example," "a specific example" or the like are intended to mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

The foregoing shows and describes the general principles, essential features, and advantages of the invention. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, which are described in the specification and illustrated only to illustrate the principle of the present invention, but that various changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, which fall within the scope of the invention as claimed.

Claims

1. The capsule filling device comprises a conveying mechanism (1) and a filling mechanism (2), and is characterized in that the filling mechanism (2) comprises a supporting table (3), a gluing shell placer (4), a medicine injector (5) and a glue shell placer (6) are arranged on the supporting table (3), and the gluing shell placer (4), the medicine injector (5) and the glue shell placer (6) are sequentially arranged on the supporting table (3) along the horizontal direction of the conveying mechanism (1);

the gluing shell placing device (4) comprises a gluing shell placing box (15) and a first telescopic rod (16), the first telescopic rod (16) is fixedly connected with the gluing shell placing box (15), a first position sensor (17) is arranged on the gluing shell placing box (15), a plurality of first placing pipes (18) are arranged at the bottom end of the gluing shell placing device (4), a first feeding hole (19) is formed in the top end of the gluing shell placing box (15), and a first driving motor (20) and a first controller (34) are arranged on the first telescopic rod (16);

the lower rubber shell placer (6) comprises a lower rubber shell placing box (21) and a second telescopic rod (22), the second telescopic rod (22) is fixedly connected with the lower rubber shell placing box (21), a second position sensor (23) is arranged on the lower rubber shell placing box (21), a second feeding hole (24) is formed in the top end of the lower rubber shell placing box (21), a second placing pipe (25) is arranged at the bottom end of the lower rubber shell placing box (21), and a second driving motor (26) and a second controller (35) are arranged on the second telescopic rod (22);

medicine injection ware (5) include third telescopic link (27) and explosive box (28), third telescopic link (27) and explosive box (28) fixed connection, the top of explosive box (28) is equipped with third feed inlet (29), the bottom of explosive box (28) is equipped with a plurality of and goes out medicine mouth (30), the bottom that goes out medicine mouth (30) can be dismantled and be connected with injection pipe (31), be equipped with third position sensor (32) on explosive box (28), be equipped with third driving motor (33) and third controller (36) on third telescopic link (27).

2. The capsule filling device according to claim 1, wherein the conveying mechanism (1) comprises a conveying frame (7), a conveying belt (8) and a fourth driving motor (9) are arranged on the conveying frame (7), the fourth driving motor (9) is in transmission connection with the conveying belt (8) through a belt, an infrared sensor (10) and a PLC (programmable logic controller) (11) are further arranged on the conveying frame (7), and a plurality of mould boxes (12) are arranged on the conveying belt (8).

3. The capsule filling device according to claim 2, wherein the number of the infrared sensors (10) is three, the three infrared sensors (10) are respectively arranged below the upper capsule holder (4), the medicine injector (5) and the lower capsule holder (6), and the infrared sensors (10) and the fourth driving motor (9) are electrically connected with the PLC (11).

4. A capsule filling apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the mold box (12) is provided with a capsule hole (13), and the inner wall of the capsule hole (13) is provided with soft silica gel (14).

5. The capsule filling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a flow valve (37) and a fourth controller (40) are further disposed on the medicine storage box (28) near the medicine outlet (30), a flow meter (38) is disposed on the flow valve (37), a monitor (39) is disposed on the flow meter (38), and both the monitor (39) and the flow valve (37) are electrically connected to the fourth controller (40).

6. A capsule filling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said first driving motor (20) and first position sensor (17), said second driving motor (26) and second position sensor (23), and said third driving motor (33) and third position sensor (32) are electrically connected to said first controller (34), said second controller (35), and said third controller (36), respectively.

7. A capsule filling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the number of said first placing tube (18), said second placing tube (25) and said drug outlet (30) is 64.