CN220738541U

CN220738541U - Capsule sorting machine and production line

Info

Publication number: CN220738541U
Application number: CN202322363200.0U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 江琎
Original assignee: Jiangyou Pharmaceutical Changde Co ltd
Current assignee: Jiangyou Pharmaceutical Changde Co ltd
Priority date: 2023-08-31
Filing date: 2023-08-31
Publication date: 2024-04-09
Anticipated expiration: 2033-08-31

Abstract

The application provides a capsule sorter and production line, the capsule sorter includes: a feeding part, and a flow dividing assembly and a screening assembly which are arranged on the feeding part; the flow splitting assembly includes: a first roller and a shunt; the two ends of the first rolling shaft are respectively arranged at two sides of the feeding part, the flow dividing piece is arranged on the first rolling shaft and is used for enabling capsules to be evenly distributed on the screening component during sorting. The utility model provides a capsule sorter can utilize the rotatory sieve tray of high speed to throw the material abundant to the marginal zone of sieve tray under the effect of sieve tray centrifugal force, through the material weight difference with the relative even distribution of material on the sieve tray, can reduce from this and pile up the jam problem that feed inlet or screening system lead to owing to the material maldistribution to with the capsule screening out that quality homogeneity accords with the quality control requirement in order to promote the efficiency that the capsule was selected separately and the medicine quality that the terminal sold.

Description

Capsule sorting machine and production line

Technical Field

The application relates to the field of medicine manufacturing, in particular to a capsule sorting machine and a production line.

Background

The capsule can be because of the different quality of capsule that makes the capsule quality uneven, causes medicine quality stability difference to the powder volume of adding in the capsule casing in the preparation, and in order to obtain the capsule of quality homogeneity and sell, need use capsule sorting equipment or add the quality screening subassembly on the capsule production line, carry out final screening work to the capsule of filled powder, obtain quality enough homogeneity, the medicine of quality control accuracy.

However, before the existing capsule sorting equipment or related screening components perform quality screening on capsules, the phenomenon that capsules are piled up to block a feed opening frequently occurs in actual production due to uneven distribution of the capsules during blanking, and at the moment, the capsules need to be stopped for manual intervention to remove faults, so that the working efficiency of a screening machine is low, and the overall production beat of a production line is negatively influenced. Accordingly, there is a need to provide an improved solution to the above-mentioned deficiencies in the prior art.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the defects and shortcomings of the capsule screening process in the prior art, the purpose of the application is to provide a capsule sorting machine, wherein capsules are pre-graded through a centrifugal component, so that the fault that the sorting machine is blocked is reduced, and capsules with uniform quality meeting quality control requirements are screened out, so that the packaging efficiency of the capsules on a production line and the quality of terminal medicines are improved.

In a first aspect, the present application provides a capsule classifier comprising: a feeding part, and a flow dividing assembly and a screening assembly which are arranged on the feeding part; wherein,

the flow splitting assembly includes: a first roller and a shunt; the two ends of the first rolling shaft are respectively arranged at two sides of the feeding part, the flow dividing piece is arranged on the first rolling shaft and is used for enabling capsules to be evenly distributed on the screening component during sorting.

In one embodiment, the screening assembly comprises: a screen disc, a rotating shaft and a guide disc;

the screen disc and the guide disc are sequentially arranged along the vertical direction, the screen disc and the flow dividing piece are arranged at intervals, the rotating shaft penetrates through the guide disc and is connected with the screen disc, and the rotating shaft is used for driving the screen disc to rotate; the guide disc is obliquely arranged in the feeding part.

In one embodiment, the guide disc has a first surface facing the screen disc, the screen disc having a second surface facing the guide disc, the first surface and the second surface together forming a first angle α.

In one embodiment, the first included angle is in the range of 20.ltoreq.α.ltoreq.60 °.

In one embodiment, the feed section comprises a feed hopper and a housing;

the flow dividing assembly and the screening assembly are arranged in the shell; the shell is provided with an opening communicated with the outside, and the bottommost part of the opening is equal to the bottommost part of the guide disc in height.

In one embodiment, the second surface of the screen disc is provided with a threaded hole, one end of the rotating shaft, which is close to the screen disc, is provided with threads, and the threaded hole on the screen disc is detachably connected with the threads on the rotating shaft, so that the screen disc can be conveniently replaced.

In one embodiment, the method comprises: the outside of the opening is provided with a collecting part for guiding.

In one embodiment, the capsule classifier further comprises: a transmission assembly; the transmission assembly is arranged below the feeding part;

the transmission assembly includes: the box body, and the motor, the coupling and the gearbox which are arranged in the box body; the motor is provided with a transmission shaft, and the transmission shaft is connected with the gearbox through the coupler.

In one embodiment, the shunt is made of a silicone or polyethylene material.

In a second aspect, the present application provides a production line comprising a capsule classifier as defined in any one of the above technical solutions.

Compared with the prior art, the technical scheme provided by the application has the following beneficial effects:

according to the technical scheme, the capsule sorting machine can utilize the high-speed rotating screen disc, materials are fully thrown towards the edge area of the screen disc under the action of centrifugal force of the screen disc, and for capsules which are not filled with medicinal powder or are not up to standard in filling quantity, the capsules are thrown out of the middle area of the screen disc due to centrifugal force and flow towards the edge of the screen disc due to lighter weight, and the capsules with heavier weight, namely, the capsules conforming to the filling quantity of the medicinal powder, can fall onto the guide disc through the screen disc and are screened out through the guide disc, so that sorting of the capsules with different weights is realized; the reposition of redundant personnel subassembly in this application then can be with material relatively even distribution and sieve tray on, consequently can reduce the jam problem that leads to owing to material maldistribution to promote the efficiency of capsule sorter.

In addition, the production line and the production workshop provided with the sorting machine can also reduce the shutdown times of other matched equipment, improve the integral production beat of the production line and improve the quality qualification rate of the terminal medicines/capsules.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the examples of the present application, the drawings that are needed in the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present application, and other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of the overall structure of a capsule sorting machine provided by the application;

fig. 2 is a schematic perspective view of an internal structure of the capsule sorting machine provided by the application.

Reference numerals illustrate:

100. a separator; 10. a feed section; 11. a feed hopper; 12. a housing; 20. a shunt assembly; 21. a first roller; 22. a shunt; 30. a screening component; 31. a screen tray; 311. a second surface; 32. a rotating shaft; 33. a guide disc; 331. a first surface; 40. a collection section; 50. a transmission assembly; 51. a case; 52. a motor; 53. a coupling; 54. a gear box.

Detailed Description

The following description of the embodiments of the present utility model will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is apparent that the embodiments described are only some embodiments of the present utility model, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the utility model without any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the utility model.

The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims and in the above-described figures are used for distinguishing between different objects and not necessarily for describing a sequential or chronological order. Furthermore, the terms "comprise" and "have," as well as any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion. For example, a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not limited to only those listed steps or elements but may include other steps or elements not listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

Reference herein to "an embodiment" or "implementation" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or implementation may be included in at least one embodiment of the utility model. The appearances of such phrases in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. Those of skill in the art will explicitly and implicitly appreciate that the embodiments described herein may be combined with other embodiments.

However, before the existing capsule sorting equipment or related screening components perform quality screening on capsules, the phenomenon that capsules are piled up to block a feed opening frequently occurs in actual production due to uneven distribution of the capsules during blanking, and at the moment, the capsules need to be stopped for manual intervention to remove faults, so that the working efficiency of the screening machine is low, and in addition, the overall production beat of a production line is also negatively influenced.

To the above defect, the application provides a capsule sorter 100, capsule sorter 100 is through the distribution scope that sets up centrifugal component and changes the capsule of different weights, will not pack or the less powder of quality and pack the capsule that the volume is not up to standard and screen out, when reducing the sorter and taking place the risk of material jam in the operation in-process, also improved the whole quality of medicine.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the present application provides a capsule sorter 100 comprising: a feeding section 10, and a flow dividing assembly 20 and a screening assembly 30 provided to the feeding section 10; the feeding portion 10 is a common feeding mechanism of the existing capsule sorting machine 100, and is not described herein; the flow splitting assembly 20 includes: a first roller 21 and a shunt 22; the two ends of the first roller 21 are respectively disposed at two sides of the feeding portion 10, the diverter 22 is disposed on the first roller 21, and the purpose of the diverter 22 is to make the capsules uniformly distributed on the screening assembly 30 during sorting.

The capsule separator 100 can utilize the high-speed rotating screen disc 31 to throw the material toward the edge area of the screen disc 31 under the action of centrifugal force generated in the rotation process of the screen disc 31, and the qualified capsules can drop onto the guide disc 33 through the screen disc 31 due to heavier weight, and are screened out through the guide disc 33, so that the sorting of the capsules is realized. In addition, in the existing screening process, since the materials (i.e., the capsules) are not completely and uniformly dispersed on the screen disc 31, the separator can often produce the conditions of capsule stacking blockage and difficult falling, so that the screening efficiency of the separator is lower, and the flow distribution assembly 20 in the application can relatively uniformly distribute the materials on the screen disc 31, so that the blocking problem caused by uneven material distribution can be reduced, thereby improving the screening efficiency of the separator 100 and reducing the equipment failure rate.

It can be appreciated that the first roller 21 of the capsule sorting machine 100 is disposed on the side wall of the feeding portion 10, and may be fixedly disposed on the side wall of the feeding portion 10 or rotatably disposed on the side wall of the feeding portion 10; the shunt member 22 is rotatably arranged on the first roller 21, when the screening component 30 starts to rotate, the capsule entering the feeding portion 10 is driven to rotate, when more capsules enter the feeding portion 10, the shunt member 22 arranged on the first roller 21 is driven to rotate, so that the capsules are relatively uniformly distributed on the surface of the screen disc 31, the occurrence of the condition that the separator 100 is blocked due to too many capsules is reduced, and the working efficiency of the capsule separator 100 is further improved.

It should be noted that, the above-mentioned diverting component 22 is rotated by two rollers to achieve diverting of the material, and in order to protect the capsule from being damaged or destroyed by the rollers, a brush or other flexible textile used for protecting the material may be covered on the periphery of the rollers, so as to ensure the integrity of the capsule in the screening process.

It should be further noted that the present utility model may also include a trough with a waste collection function or an external waste recycling and storing device (not shown). It can be understood that the defective rate of the capsule and the blanking blockage probability are limited, so that the utilization rate of the waste collection device is low, the design and production of the structure can be omitted for saving the manufacturing cost of the capsule sorting machine, and the related structure of waste recovery is replaced by manual operation and is not described herein.

In some embodiments, the screening assembly 30 includes: a screen tray 31, a rotary shaft 32, and a guide tray 33;

the screen disc 31 and the guide disc 33 are sequentially arranged along the vertical direction, the screen disc 31 and the shunt 22 are arranged at intervals, the rotating shaft 32 penetrates through the guide disc 33 to be connected with the screen disc 31, and the rotating shaft 32 is used for driving the screen disc 31 to rotate; the guide plate 33 is disposed obliquely in the feed portion 10.

It can be understood that the screening assembly 30 is mainly used for screening capsules and comprises a screen disc 31, a plurality of through holes are formed in the screen disc 31 and are formed along the axis of the screen disc 31, a rotating shaft 32 for driving the screen disc 31 to rotate is arranged below the screen disc 31, and the rotating shaft 32 is connected with the transmission assembly 50 to support the screen disc 31 for power transmission of the transmission assembly 50; the below of sieve tray 31 is provided with guide disc 33, and guide disc 33 is used for collecting the capsule after the sieve tray 31 sieves, and guide disc 33 slope sets up in feed portion 10, makes the capsule can collect together fast after being sieved, promotes the screening efficiency of sorter 100.

In some embodiments, the guide disc 33 has a first surface 331 facing the screen disc 31, the screen disc 31 has a second surface 311 facing the guide disc 33, and the first surface 331 and the second surface 311 together form a first included angle α.

It will be appreciated that the angle between the guide disc 33 and the sieve disc 31 enables the capsules to be collected together rapidly after being screened, and the angle affects the collection speed of the capsules, and thus the screening speed and the production line production speed of the capsules.

It should be noted that the above-mentioned angle setting needs to be adapted to the mesh number of the screen tray 31.

In some embodiments, the first included angle ranges from 20 to 60.

It can be appreciated that the first included angle may be 20 °, 25 °, 30 °, 35 °, 40 °, 45 °, 50 °, 55 °, 60 ° or the like, preferably 45 ° - α -55 °, more preferably 50 °, and when the included angle is 50 °, the separator 100 has a better collection efficiency, and has a sufficient inclination angle to enable the capsules to fall smoothly, and a sufficient blanking distance to enable the capsules not to block the guide path.

In some embodiments, the feed section 10 includes a feed hopper 11 and a housing 12; the diverter assembly 20 and the screen assembly 30 are disposed within the housing 12; the outer part is provided with an opening communicating with the outer part, the bottommost part of the opening being at the same height as the bottommost part of the guide disc 33.

It will be appreciated that the upper portion of the feeding portion 10 is the feeding hopper 11, the housing 12 is arranged below the feeding hopper, the housing 12 and the feeding hopper 11 can be integrally formed or welded together, the length of the housing 12 is relatively long, and the relative dimensions are uniform, so that the diverter assembly 20 and the screening assembly 30 can be properly arranged in the housing 12, and an opening is arranged at the lower portion of the housing 12, i.e. at a position matching with the guiding surface of the guiding disc 33, and is used for guiding out the screened capsules, thereby facilitating the collection of the capsules.

In some embodiments, the second surface 311 of the screen plate 31 is provided with a threaded hole, which is a threaded hole of any type convenient in the art using a conventional bolt connection, not specifically shown in the drawings, and the end of the rotating shaft 32 near the screen plate 31 is provided with threads, and the threaded hole on the screen plate 31 is detachably connected with the threads on the rotating shaft 32, so as to facilitate replacement of the screen plate 31.

It can be understood that the side of the screen disc 31 facing the rotating shaft 32 is provided with a threaded hole, and the rotating shaft 32 is provided with threads matched with the threaded hole, so as to facilitate replacement of the screen disc 31 according to different screening conditions, so that the classifier 100 has a wider application range; the above-mentioned screen disc 31 and spindle 32 are set up in threaded fit, the direction of the screw thread needs to be opposite to direction of rotation of the spindle 32, in order to make the screen disc 31 rotate more and more tightly; of course, the above-mentioned matching structure may be other quick-release structures, which are not listed here.

In some embodiments, comprising: the outside of the opening is provided with a collecting part 40 for guiding, so that the collection of the capsules is facilitated, the collecting part 40 is of a tipping bucket structure with an inclined discharging chassis and two vertical side walls, and it is understood that in the actual use process, the collecting part 40 can be of a structure rotatable relative to the horizontal plane, so that the final discharging rate of the capsules is conveniently adjusted.

In some embodiments, the capsule classifier 100 further comprises: a transmission assembly 50; the transmission assembly 50 is arranged below the feeding part 10; the transmission assembly 50 includes: a case 51, and a motor 52, a coupling 53, and a transmission 54 provided in the case 51; the motor 52 has a drive shaft which is connected to the gearbox 54 via the coupling 53.

The transmission assembly 50 is mainly used for providing power for the sorting machine 100, specifically, the transmission assembly 50 includes a box 51, a motor 52, a coupling 53 and a gearbox 54 are disposed in the box 51, the coupling 53 and the coupling 53 are connected with the gearbox 54 through a transmission shaft of the motor 52, the power of the motor 52 is transmitted into the gearbox 54, the gearbox 54 is connected with the rotating shaft 32, the power is transmitted to the rotating shaft 32, and the rotating shaft 32 drives the screen disc 31 to rotate.

In some embodiments of the present application, the casing 12 may be further provided with a hollow portion, and when the screen disc 31 rotates, the material is thrown out through the hollow portion, but it should be noted that, at this time, an outer portion needs to be provided with a related component for collecting the material, for example, an annular disc is provided at the outer portion for collecting the material; in addition, the hollowed-out part also needs to be subjected to guiding treatment, namely the opening is sequentially reduced from inside to outside, and the material collection is also facilitated.

In some embodiments, the shunt 22 is made of silicone or polyethylene material in order to avoid damage to the capsule during the screening process, affecting the quality of the capsule. It will be appreciated that the shunt member 22 may be other engineering plastic members that are harmless to the human body and are not prone to separating out small molecular contaminants.

The present application also provides a production line comprising the capsule sorter 100, and if the apparatus of the present application is used in a production line, it is necessary to provide the apparatus with corresponding components or fittings to enable the capsule sorter 100 of the present application to be used in a production line. The capsule sorting machine 100 provided by the application realizes sorting of capsules with different weights through centrifugal screening, and the capsules meeting the quality requirements are screened to the next procedure, and meanwhile, the risk of blocking a blanking or discharging system by the capsules is reduced, so that the shutdown times of other matched equipment can be reduced in a production line and a production workshop equipped with the capsule sorting machine, the overall production beat of the production line is improved, and the quality qualification rate of terminal products/capsules is improved.

Reference in the specification to "an embodiment," "implementation" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment may be included in at least one embodiment of the utility model. The appearances of the phrase in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. Those of skill in the art will explicitly and implicitly appreciate that the described embodiments of the utility model may be combined with other embodiments. Furthermore, it should be understood that the features, structures or characteristics described in the embodiments of the present utility model may be combined arbitrarily without any conflict with each other, to form yet another embodiment without departing from the spirit and scope of the present utility model.

Finally, it should be noted that the above-mentioned embodiments are merely for illustrating the technical solution of the present utility model and not for limiting the same, and although the present utility model has been described in detail with reference to the above-mentioned preferred embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that modifications and equivalents may be made to the technical solution of the present utility model without departing from the spirit and scope of the technical solution of the present utility model.

Claims

1. A capsule classifier, comprising: a feeding part, and a flow dividing assembly and a screening assembly which are arranged on the feeding part; wherein,

2. The capsule sorting machine of claim 1, wherein the screening assembly comprises: a screen disc, a rotating shaft and a guide disc;

3. Capsule sorting machine according to claim 2, characterized in that the guiding disc has a first surface facing the screening disc, the screening disc having a second surface facing the guiding disc, the first surface and the second surface together forming a first angle α.

4. A capsule sorting machine according to claim 3, wherein the first included angle is in the range 20 ° to 60 °.

5. The capsule separator as in claim 2, wherein said feed section comprises a feed hopper and a housing;

6. The capsule sorting machine of claim 2, wherein a threaded hole is formed in the second surface of the screen disc, a thread is formed in one end of the rotating shaft, which is close to the screen disc, and the threaded hole in the screen disc is detachably connected with the thread in the rotating shaft, so that the screen disc can be replaced conveniently.

7. The capsule sorting machine of claim 5, comprising: the outside of the opening is provided with a collecting part for guiding.

8. The capsule classifier of claim 1, wherein the capsule classifier further comprises: a transmission assembly; the transmission assembly is arranged below the feeding part;

9. Capsule sorting machine according to claim 2, characterized in that the shunt is made of a silicone or polyethylene material.

10. A production line comprising a capsule classifier as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 9.