CN217569895U

CN217569895U - Full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine

Info

Publication number: CN217569895U
Application number: CN202221671549.XU
Authority: CN
Inventors: 柯巍; 沈翔; 朱振羽; 丁统帅
Original assignee: Shanghai Sine Yan'an Pharmaceutical Co ltd; Shanghai Sine Wanxiang Pharmaceutical Co ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Sine Yan'an Pharmaceutical Co ltd; Shanghai Sine Wanxiang Pharmaceutical Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-06-29
Filing date: 2022-06-29
Publication date: 2022-10-14
Anticipated expiration: 2032-06-29

Abstract

The utility model provides a full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine, which comprises a box body, a roller conveyer belt and an ethanol spraying unit; wherein, the middle upper parts of the left and right side walls of the box body are respectively provided with a feed inlet and a discharge outlet correspondingly, the roller conveyer belt transversely penetrates through the feed inlet and the discharge outlet and is uniformly distributed with soft capsule pills to be cleaned; the ethanol spraying unit is horizontally arranged at the upper part of the box body and is used for spraying ethanol solution to the soft capsule pills which are rolled and flow through the lower part of the box body. The utility model transmits the soft capsule pills to the same direction through the same-direction rolling of the roller conveyer belt, the soft capsule pills can carry out irregular rolling in the transmission process, thin vaporific alcohol is formed from top to bottom through the alcohol spraying unit, and residual grease, residual organic solvent and the like in the soft capsule production process are thoroughly cleaned by utilizing the similarity and intermiscibility principle; and the full-automatic integrated oil washing process is adopted, redundant manual operation is avoided, time and labor are saved, and the oil washing device can be applied to large-scale production lines.

Description

Full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a softgel auxiliary production equipment especially relates to a full-automatic softgel ethanol elution machine.

Background

The soft capsule belongs to a packaging mode of capsules, is commonly used in medicines or health-care foods, and is a preparation formulation prepared by adding proper auxiliary materials into medicines to prepare solution or suspension and then sealing the solution or suspension in an oval soft capsule material. At present, in the industrial mass production line production process of soft capsules, the soft capsule is generally produced by adopting a die pressing method, and the process of pressing the soft capsule preparation comprises the following steps: preparing materials, melting gelatin, pressing into pills, shaping, washing pills, and drying. Melting gelatin, glycerol, water, etc. to obtain rubber sheet, placing the medicinal liquid between two rubber sheets, and making into capsule by die pressing process, wherein paraffin oil is used for lubrication during pressing process, so that the formed capsule is washed with ethanol to remove oil, and dried to obtain the final product.

There are two common methods for removing oil by washing with ethanol, the first method is to pour the soft capsule into a container containing ethanol, wash to remove oil and then take out. The other method is to wipe off excessive oil in the capsule with cloth soaked with alcohol on the production line for reuse. Both methods require the use of large amounts of ethanol, resulting in ethanol residues and higher costs.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model discloses the technical problem that will solve is: aiming at the defects of the prior art, the full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine is provided, the washing and dehydrating machine can obviously reduce the using amount and the residue of ethanol, greatly improve the efficiency of washing and deoiling soft capsules and compress the subsequent drying time.

The utility model discloses a solve above-mentioned technical problem and adopt following technical scheme:

the utility model provides a full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine, which comprises a box body, a roller conveyer belt and an ethanol spraying unit; the middle upper parts of the left side wall and the right side wall of the box body are respectively and correspondingly provided with a feed inlet and a discharge outlet, the roller conveyer belt transversely penetrates through the feed inlet and the discharge outlet and is uniformly distributed with soft capsule pills to be cleaned; the ethanol spraying unit is horizontally erected at the upper part of the box body and is used for spraying ethanol solution to the soft capsule pills which are rolled and flow through the lower part of the box body.

Preferably, on the full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine, the bottom of the box body is provided with an inclined plane, the inclined plane is 5-15 degrees, and the lower end of the box body is provided with a liquid outlet and is provided with a floor drain.

Preferably, on the full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine, an exhaust port is arranged on the front side wall of the box body close to the feed inlet, and the horizontal height of the exhaust port is positioned below the roller conveyer belt.

Preferably, on the full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine, a reversible top cover is arranged at the opening at the top of the box body, and a handle is arranged at the top of the top cover.

Preferably, on the full-automatic ethanol soft capsule washing and dehydrating machine, the top cover is made of aluminum alloy or stainless steel, and sealing rings matched with four frames at the top of the box body are arranged on the four peripheries of the top cover.

Preferably, on the full-automatic ethanol washing and dehydrating machine for soft capsules, the ethanol spraying unit comprises an ethanol input pipe, a plurality of ethanol output pipes and a plurality of spray heads, wherein:

the ethanol input pipe is arranged at the back of the box body, is provided with an electromagnetic valve and is used for providing ethanol solution into the box body;

the ethanol output pipes are arranged at the upper part of the box body at intervals, and one end of each ethanol output pipe is connected with the ethanol input pipe;

the plurality of spray headers are arranged on the corresponding ethanol output pipes at intervals, and the spray directions of the spray headers are arranged downwards.

Preferably, on the full-automatic ethanol soft capsule washing and dehydrating machine, two ends of the ethanol output pipes are longitudinally erected in the slotted holes on the front side wall and the rear side wall of the box body respectively.

More preferably, on the full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine, the inclined included angle of the spraying direction of the spray header relative to the vertical direction is 0-60 degrees.

Preferably, on the full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine, the machine further comprises an exhaust unit, wherein the exhaust unit comprises an exhaust collecting cover, an exhaust pipeline and an exhaust fan, wherein:

the exhaust collecting cover is in a conical structure with one large end and one small end, and one end of the large end is communicated with the exhaust port on the front side wall of the box body;

one end of the exhaust pipeline is communicated with one end of the small head of the exhaust collecting cover;

the exhaust fan is erected at the exhaust port and used for timely exhausting the gaseous ethanol volatilized in the box body.

Preferably, the full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine further comprises a PLC (programmable logic controller), wherein the PLC is respectively and electrically connected with a driving motor on the roller conveyer belt, an electromagnetic valve on the ethanol spraying unit and an exhaust fan.

The utility model adopts the above technical scheme, compare with prior art, have following technological effect:

(1) The cost is saved: at least dozens of kilograms of ethanol are consumed in the existing modes of washing the soft capsules with ethanol and washing the cloth, and the washing and dehydrating machine reduces the consumption of the ethanol in a spraying mode and greatly reduces the ethanol residue on the surface;

(2) The method is safer: the ethanol spraying unit and the exhaust unit form a washing and exhausting integrated design, so that the volume content of the alcohol in the air is effectively reduced, and flash explosion is avoided;

(3) The efficiency is improved: the full-automatic integrated oil washing process avoids redundant manual operation and can be applied to a large-scale production line through reasonable modification;

(4) The cleaning is simple: the self-cleaning function of spraying can be self-cleaned, and subsequent manual cleaning is avoided.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the overall structure of a full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a partial enlarged structure of the part A of the full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a partial enlarged structure of a part B of the fully automatic soft capsule ethanol elution machine of the present invention;

wherein the reference symbols are:

10-box body, 11-feeding hole, 12-discharging hole, 13-floor drain, 14-exhaust hole, 15-slotted hole, 16-top cover and 17-handle; 20-roller conveyer belt; 30-ethanol spraying unit, 31-ethanol input pipe, 32-ethanol output pipe, 33-spray header, 40-exhaust unit, 41-exhaust collecting cover, 42-exhaust pipeline and 43-exhaust fan; 50-Soft Capsule pill.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments.

Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative work belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 1, aiming at the defect that the existing methods of washing soft capsules with ethanol and washing cloth eventually consume at least tens of kilograms of ethanol, a full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine is provided, which mainly comprises a box body 10, a roller conveyer belt 20 and an ethanol spraying unit 30.

Specifically, a feed inlet 11 is formed in the middle upper portion of the right side wall of the box body 10, a discharge outlet 12 is formed in the middle upper portion of the left side wall of the box body 10, and the feed inlet 11 and the discharge outlet 12 are both square strip holes and are arranged in a front-back corresponding manner.

As shown in fig. 2, the roller conveyer belt 20 is a powered roller conveyer, the front end and the rear end of which transversely pass through the feed inlet 11 and the discharge outlet 12, and the soft capsule pills 50 to be cleaned are uniformly distributed on the roller conveyer belt and used for conveying the soft capsule pills 50 forwards in a rolling manner. The adopted power roller conveyor is a conveyor for conveying finished articles by a plurality of rollers which are erected on a fixed support at certain intervals, is conventional equipment, and the working principle of the conventional equipment is not described in detail herein.

It should be noted that, on the roller conveyer belt 20, the distance between each roller is less than the length and the minor axis of the soft capsule pill 50, on one hand, the soft capsule pill 50 is prevented from falling from the gap between the adjacent rollers, and on the other hand, the soft capsule pill 50 can be driven to rotate to the next roller position along with the rotation of the rollers, so that the purpose of conveying forward is realized. For example, the distance between a plurality of rollers on the roller conveyer belt 20 can be adjusted, or rollers with different diameters can be selected to adapt to soft capsules of various models.

The roller conveyer belt 20 is made of stainless steel, a plurality of soft capsule pills 50 on the roller conveyer belt 20 are conveyed in the same direction through the same-direction rolling of rollers on the roller conveyer belt, and the soft capsule pills 50 can be irregularly rolled in the conveying process, so that the cleaning is cleaner.

As shown in fig. 3, the ethanol spraying unit 30, which is an ethanol supply unit of the ethanol elution machine, is provided with a plurality of shower heads 33. The ethanol spraying unit 30 is horizontally erected at the upper part of the box body 10 and fixed on the inner wall of the box body 10, ethanol is sprayed to the soft capsule pills 50 which flow over below the ethanol in a mist form through a plurality of spray heads 33 arranged on the ethanol spraying unit, and residual grease, residual organic solvent and the like in the soft capsule production process are cleaned by utilizing the similarity and intermiscibility principle, so that the surface cleaning of the soft capsule pills 50 is realized.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 1, the box body 10 is made of stainless steel or aluminum alloy, the bottom of the box body 10 is arranged to be an inclined plane, the inclination angle is 5-15 °, a liquid discharge port is opened at a lower end of the box body, a floor drain 13 is arranged on the lower end of the box body, and the bottom of the box body 10 arranged in an inclined manner is used for sufficiently discharging the ethanol solution at the bottom of the box body 10. According to the requirement, a pipeline can be connected below the floor drain 13 for collecting redundant elution alcohol and reagents, and the collected alcohol and reagents can be recycled.

In order to reduce the concentration of ethanol in the air in the box body 10 and improve the production safety. An air outlet 14 is further formed in the front side wall of the box body 10, and one end of the air outlet 14, which is close to the feed inlet 11, is arranged. And the level of the exhaust port 14 is located below the drum conveyor 20.

In addition, in order to reduce the volatilization of ethanol into the room, a top cover 16 is arranged at the opening at the top of the box body 10, one end of the top cover 16 is hinged to a frame at the back of the box body 10 by a hinge, and the top cover 16 can be arranged at the top of the box body 10 in a turnover mode. And a handle 17 is further provided on the top of the top cover 16 in order to facilitate the opening of the top cover 16.

The top cover 16 also serves as a first line of defense against explosion and impact, and is made of aluminum alloy or stainless steel, such as thickened aluminum alloy or stainless steel, and has sufficient structural strength and impact resistance.

And in order to prevent the ethanol in the box body 10 from leaking into the room, sealing rings matched with four frames at the top of the box body 10 are arranged at the periphery of the top cover 16, and the top cover 16 is covered at the top of the box body 10 through the sealing rings.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 1 and 3, the ethanol spraying unit 30 mainly includes an ethanol input pipe 31, a plurality of ethanol output pipes 32, and a plurality of showerheads 33, where the number of ethanol output pipes 32 is several, and each ethanol output pipe 32 corresponds to several showerheads 33.

Specifically, the ethanol input pipe 31 is transversely disposed at the back of the box body 10, and is provided with an electromagnetic valve, and is used for controlling the supply of the ethanol solution into the box body 10 by controlling the opening and closing of the electromagnetic valve. The side wall of the rear end of the ethanol input pipe 31 is provided with a plurality of openings arranged at intervals along the length direction, and one end of the ethanol input pipe 31 is connected with a plurality of ethanol output pipes 32 through a plurality of openings in a welding manner.

The ethanol output pipes 32 are arranged on the upper part of the box body 10 at intervals and are positioned above the roller conveyor belt 20. Two ends of the ethanol output pipes 32 are longitudinally erected in the slotted holes 15 of the front and rear two side walls of the box body 10 respectively, and one end of the ethanol output pipe 32 penetrates through the slotted hole 15 of the rear wall to be communicated with the ethanol input pipe 31.

An electromagnetic valve can be arranged on each ethanol output pipe 32 according to requirements, the electromagnetic valves are respectively used for controlling the ethanol spraying of the single ethanol output pipe 32, and a proper amount of ethanol output pipes 32 are started to spray according to the laying density and the conveying speed of the soft capsule pills 50, so that the use flexibility is improved.

The plurality of spray headers 33 are arranged on the corresponding ethanol output pipes 32 at intervals, the spray directions of the spray headers 33 are arranged downwards, and the spray headers 33 on the two adjacent rows of ethanol output pipes 32 are arranged in a crossed manner.

If the inclined angle of the spraying direction of the spraying head 33 relative to the vertical direction is 0-60 degrees, preferably, the inclined angle of the spraying direction of the spraying head 33 relative to the vertical direction is 15-45 degrees, and the atomized ethanol sprayed by the spraying head 33 is obliquely sprayed on the soft capsule pills 50 from the side surface, so that the inclined purpose is realized.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 1, in order to effectively reduce the volume content of alcohol in air and prevent flash explosion, the fully automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine further comprises an exhaust unit 40, wherein the exhaust unit 40 comprises an exhaust collecting cover 41, an exhaust pipeline 42 and an exhaust fan 43. The ethanol spraying unit 30 and the exhaust unit 40 form a washing and discharging integrated design of the ethanol washing and dehydrating machine, so that the production safety is improved.

Specifically, the exhaust gas collecting hood 41 is a conical hood structure with one large end and one small end, and one end of the large end is communicated with the exhaust port 14 on the front side wall of the box body 10; one end of the exhaust duct 42 communicates with one end of the small end of the exhaust collection cover 41. The exhaust fan 43 is installed at the exhaust port 14, and the exhaust fan 43 is started to timely exhaust the volatile gaseous ethanol in the box body 10, so as to reduce the ethanol concentration in the box body 10.

The exhaust unit 40 structural design of installation on box 10 can effectively reduce the alcohol concentration in the narrow and small space of box 10 under the circumstances of work, promotes factor of safety, and follow-up also can increase tolerance, makes alcohol volatilize and accelerates, has accelerateed dry time.

In addition, in order to realize automatic production control, the full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine further comprises a PLC controller, wherein the PLC controller is installed on the front side wall of the box body 10, and the PLC controller is respectively and electrically connected with the driving motor on the roller conveyer belt 20, the electromagnetic valve on the ethanol spraying unit 30 and the exhaust fan 43.

The PLC can automatically control the roller conveyer belt 20 to convey the soft capsule pills 50 according to a preset program, automatically control the ethanol spraying unit 30 to spray ethanol on the surfaces of the soft capsule pills 50 for cleaning, and start the exhaust fan 43 to exhaust the volatilized gaseous ethanol in the box body 10.

The points to be finally explained are: first, in the description of the present application, it should be noted that, unless otherwise specified and limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" should be understood broadly, and may be a mechanical connection or an electrical connection, or a communication between two elements, and may be a direct connection, and "upper," "lower," "left," and "right" are only used to indicate a relative positional relationship, and when the absolute position of the object to be described is changed, the relative positional relationship may be changed;

secondly, in the drawings of the disclosed embodiments of the present invention, only the structures related to the disclosed embodiments are referred to, and other structures can refer to common designs, and under the condition of no conflict, the same embodiment and different embodiments of the present invention can be combined with each other;

finally, the above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and should not be taken as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principles of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine is characterized by comprising a box body (10), a roller conveyer belt (20) and an ethanol spraying unit (30); the middle upper parts of the left side wall and the right side wall of the box body (10) are respectively and correspondingly provided with a feed inlet (11) and a discharge outlet (12), the roller conveyer belt (20) transversely penetrates through the feed inlet (11) and the discharge outlet (12) to be arranged, and soft capsule pills (50) to be cleaned are uniformly distributed on the roller conveyer belt; the ethanol spraying unit (30) is horizontally arranged at the upper part of the box body (10) and is used for spraying ethanol solution to the soft capsule pills (50) which are rolled and flow through the lower part of the ethanol spraying unit.

2. The full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine according to claim 1, characterized in that the bottom of the box body (10) is arranged to be an inclined plane, the inclination angle is 5-15 degrees, and the lower end of the box body is provided with a liquid discharge port and is provided with a floor drain (13).

3. The full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the front side wall of the box body (10) is provided with an exhaust port (14) near the feed port (11), and the horizontal height of the exhaust port (14) is below the roller conveyor belt (20).

4. The full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine according to claim 1, characterized in that a top cover (16) which can be turned over is arranged at the top opening of the box body (10), and a handle (17) is arranged at the top of the top cover (16).

5. The full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine according to claim 4, characterized in that the top cover (16) is made of aluminum alloy or stainless steel, and sealing rings matched with four frames at the top of the box body (10) are arranged on the four peripheries of the top cover.

6. The fully automatic soft capsule ethanol elution machine according to claim 1, wherein the ethanol spraying unit (30) comprises an ethanol input pipe (31), a plurality of ethanol output pipes (32) and a plurality of showerheads (33), wherein:

the ethanol input pipe (31) is arranged at the back of the box body (10), is provided with an electromagnetic valve and is used for providing ethanol solution into the box body (10);

the ethanol output pipes (32) are arranged at the upper part of the box body (10) at intervals, and one end of each ethanol output pipe is connected with the ethanol input pipe (31);

the plurality of spray headers (33) are arranged on the corresponding ethanol output pipes (32) at intervals, and the spray directions of the spray headers (33) are arranged downwards.

7. The automatic washing and dehydrating machine for soft capsule ethanol as claimed in claim 6, wherein two ends of a plurality of ethanol output pipes (32) are respectively and longitudinally erected in the slotted holes (15) of the front and rear side walls of the box body (10).

8. The automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine as claimed in claim 6, wherein the spraying direction of the spray header (33) is inclined at an angle of 0-60 ° with respect to the vertical direction.

9. The full-automatic soft capsule ethanol elution machine according to claim 1, further comprising an exhaust unit (40), the exhaust unit (40) comprising an exhaust collecting hood (41), an exhaust duct (42) and an exhaust fan (43), wherein:

the exhaust collecting cover (41) is in a conical structure with one large end and one small end, and one end of the large end is communicated with an exhaust port (14) on the front side wall of the box body (10);

one end of the exhaust pipeline (42) is communicated with one end of the small end of the exhaust collecting cover (41);

the exhaust fan (43) is erected at the exhaust port (14) and used for timely exhausting the gaseous ethanol volatilized in the box body (10).

10. The full-automatic soft capsule ethanol washing and dehydrating machine of claim 1, further comprising a PLC controller electrically connected to the driving motor on the drum conveyor (20), the solenoid valve on the ethanol spraying unit (30), and the exhaust fan (43), respectively.