EP0334729A1 - Ausgabevorrichtung mit hin- und hergehender Bewegung - Google Patents

Ausgabevorrichtung mit hin- und hergehender Bewegung Download PDF

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EP0334729A1
EP0334729A1 EP89400742A EP89400742A EP0334729A1 EP 0334729 A1 EP0334729 A1 EP 0334729A1 EP 89400742 A EP89400742 A EP 89400742A EP 89400742 A EP89400742 A EP 89400742A EP 0334729 A1 EP0334729 A1 EP 0334729A1
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Jean-Michel Farce
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B1/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying stoppers
    • B67B1/005—Feeding stoppers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D83/04—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills
    • B65D83/0409—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing annular, disc-shaped, or spherical or like small articles, e.g. tablets or pills the dispensing means being adapted for delivering one article, or a single dose, upon each actuation
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D2583/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D2583/04—For dispensing annular, disc-shaped or spherical or like small articles or tablets
    • B65D2583/0472—For dispensing annular, disc-shaped or spherical or like small articles or tablets characterised by the dispensing action
    • B65D2583/0477—For dispensing annular, disc-shaped or spherical or like small articles or tablets characterised by the dispensing action the container is maintained in the same position during the dispensing of several successive articles or doses
    • B65D2583/0481—One reciprocating action, e.g. to or from

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  • the invention relates to a device for distributing objects, intended to take on demand, from a reserve of equivalent objects having approximately the same dimensions, a predetermined number of these objects, which can be equal to or greater than 1, and deliver the objects thus removed.
  • Such devices are used in a wide variety of applications. Integrated into production lines, they can be used to supply, for example, blanks to be machined or components to be assembled in an assembly. In portable form, it can be used to distribute, for example, medicines or candies.
  • the object of the invention is to provide such a device having all or part of the following properties: - possibility of treating objects of complex geometric shapes; - sufficient tolerance as to the dimensions of the objects treated; - simplicity of construction and operation; - excellent operational safety, without jamming or error in the number of objects to be distributed or deterioration of these objects; - in the case of a portable device, ease of use even by an unskilled person.
  • an apparatus of the above kind comprises: - A distribution chamber provided with an erasable shutter, suitable for receiving said number of objects to be distributed; - Means for successively bringing the objects contained in the store into the distribution chamber, these means defining a single retaining location where the next object to be entered in the chamber is located after each round trip; - erasable retaining means for immobilizing the object therein in said retaining location; means of erasing the shutter capable of releasing under the action of said movement, for a fraction of the duration of a round trip, a passage sufficient to allow the object or objects contained in the room to distribution to get out of it; and - Means for engaging the retaining means subjected to the action of said movement to immobilize the object present in the retaining location at least for the duration of release from the passage by the shutter.
  • the invention relates in particular to a device in which the objects, to enter and leave the distribution chamber, move relative to the latter substantially in the direction of said reciprocating translational movement.
  • the action of the erasing means of the shutter and the means of engaging the retaining means depends only on the instantaneous relative position of the first and second members, and these means begin to act during a forward journey. during which the second member moves relative to the first member in the direction opposite to the direction of movement of the objects, and ceases to act during the return journey.
  • the shutter belongs to the second member and the corresponding erasing means comprise a stop belonging to the first member and coming to bear against the shutter to erase it during said movement, this stop may be constituted by an extreme edge of a wall of the first member limiting the chamber.
  • the retaining means comprise at least one elastically deformable tongue for penetrating towards said location under the action of the engagement means.
  • This tongue can be cut from a wall of the first member arranged in the extension of a wall limiting the distribution chamber.
  • the engagement means comprise cooperating surfaces of the first and second members comprising at least one ramp to transform the relative translational movement of the latter into a movement of the retaining means transverse to the previous ones.
  • stop means on the first and second members to limit their relative translational movement, as well as in certain cases elastic means for returning these two members to a determined relative position.
  • the device illustrated is a portable device intended to dispense one by one of the tablets for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. It is therefore designed to be easily handled by a patient suffering from this disease, whose finger movements are therefore limited.
  • the device consists exclusively of two plastic parts, for example a polyethylene or polypropylene, namely a body 1 and a sleeve 2.
  • the body of generally tubular shape, is closed at one end by a bottom 3 and open at its opposite end 4.
  • the inside diameter of the body 1 is practically constant over its entire length, while its wall thickness and consequently its outside diameter vary, and are practically minimal over a part 5 between the open end 4 and a shoulder 6.
  • the part 5 of the body has, in the vicinity of the end 4, an external circumferential rib 7 whose external diameter corresponds substantially to the external diameter of the shoulder 6.
  • Another external circumferential rib 8 is provided in the vicinity of the shoulder 6, between the latter and the bottom 3.
  • the thin wall of the neck 5 is cut to form two flexible tongues 9 oriented longitudinally.
  • each tongue 9 has, closer to the fastener 10 than the free end 11, a projection 12 limited on the side of the bottom 3 by a radial planar surface 13 facing the shoulder 6, and towards the outside the body and on the side of the open end 4 by an inclined surface or ramp 14 approaching the axis of the tube in the direction of the end 4.
  • the surfaces 13 and 14 form between them an acute angle edge 15 located at a distance from the axis of the tubular body greater than the outside radius of the shoulder 6 and the rib 7.
  • the head 2 forms a tubular sleeve whose internal diameter is also substantially constant over its entire length and whose wall thickness and external diameter vary, this internal diameter being slightly greater than the external diameter of the rib 7 and of the section 22 of the body between the shoulder 6 and the rib 8.
  • From the internal face 16 of the sleeve in the vicinity of one end 17 of the latter, depend four flexible flaps 18 which, in the rest position shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, extend in a radial plane so as to close off the internal space of the sleeve, leaving only an axial circular opening 19 and four radial slots 20 connected to the opening 19 and extending to the wall of the sleeve .
  • the head 2 is threaded onto the neck 5 of the body, the flaps 18 being substantially adjacent to the open end 4 of the latter and the end 17 of the head being turned to the same side as this end 4.
  • L 'opposite end 21 of the head surrounds the section 22 of the body between the shoulder 6 and the rib 8, at a certain distance from the latter.
  • Head 2 is substantially coaxial with body 1 due to of the guidance provided by the rib 7 and the section 22 cooperating with the internal face 16 of the head.
  • the internal face 16 of the sleeve 2 has, in the vicinity of the end 21, an annular recess limited by a substantially planar radial surface 23 and by a substantially frustoconical surface or ramp 24 which approaches the axis, from the surface 23, towards the end 17.
  • the surface 23 faces the surfaces 13 of the projections 12 presented by the tongues 9 of the body, and abuts therewith to limit in the position indicated in FIG. 1 the movement of relative sliding of the head on the body and preventing the separation of these two parts. In this position, the edges 15 of the projections 12 are housed in the annular recess of the head.
  • the operation of the device is as follows. Before assembly of the two parts, tablets not shown have been introduced into the body 1. This assembly is carried out by threading the head 2, by its end 21, on the neck 5 of the body. When the end 21 comes into contact with the protrusions 12 of the tongues 9, it cooperates with the ramps 14 to urge the tongues in elastic bending towards the axis of the body, thus erasing the protrusions 12 and allowing them to be crossed by the section of the head between the end 22 and the annular recess defined by the surfaces 23 and 24. The tongues are then brought back by their own elasticity to the position illustrated in FIG. 1, the edges 15 of the projections 12 penetrating into the recess for prevent removal of the head.
  • FIG. 1 To release one of the tablets contained in the body 1, orient the device upside down as shown in FIG. 1 and press the free end 17 of the head against a receiving surface 25 (FIG. 2) approximately. horizontal, which can be that of a table or that of the palm of a user's hand, the other hand used to hold the body 1.
  • a first tablet rests on the flaps 18 and is located in the chamber 26, while a second tablet resting on the first is framed by the ends 11 of the tongues 9.
  • An axial thrust is then exerted on the body downwards, or on the head, by means of the palm, upwards.
  • the second is already immobilized by the tongues 9 as described above and cannot therefore leave the body during the same movement.
  • the device can be designed to distribute a number of objects greater than 1 with each movement, this number being determined by the relationship between the dimensions of the objects and the length of the distribution chamber 26 formed by the portion of the neck 5 located downstream of the tongues 9.
  • the cross section of the neck 5 must be calculated as a function of the dimensions of the objects so that they are aligned in a single column, and , if these dimensions are different in the directions of the space, so that they occupy substantially the same length in the longitudinal direction of the neck.
  • Reliefs not shown can be provided on the external surface of the body 1 to facilitate its holding in the hand.
  • the slots 20 can be bridged by fasteners connecting the flaps 18, which will be broken during the first use.
  • the presence of these fasteners allows the buyer of a device stocked with drugs to verify that no samples have yet been taken.
  • the part of the latter projecting beyond the shutter can be reduced or eliminated.
  • the body may not have a tubular shape of constant circular section. It may in particular have a different section and / or be widened in its parts remote from the outlet end, provided that the objects to be dispensed are brought one by one at least to the retaining location.
  • the bottom 3 can be replaced by a removable plug allowing the device to be refilled.
  • the body can be open at its end opposite the outlet end, and can for example constitute a hopper, in particular in a production line. It can also be in the form of a gutter or channel extending substantially from top to bottom and open laterally.

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EP19890400742 1988-03-21 1989-03-16 Ausgabevorrichtung mit hin- und hergehender Bewegung Expired - Lifetime EP0334729B1 (de)

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FR8803631A FR2628715B1 (fr) 1988-03-21 1988-03-21 Distributeur d'objets a mouvement alternatif

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WO2000032496A1 (en) * 1998-12-03 2000-06-08 Weimer Pharma Gmbh Flexible urging mechanism and dispensing kit incorporating same
WO2000068109A1 (de) * 1999-05-08 2000-11-16 Friedrich Sanner Gmbh & Co. Kg Spritzgusswerk Tablettenspender
EP1551738A1 (de) * 2002-06-20 2005-07-13 CSP Technologies, Inc. Spender für feste objekte

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US2893599A (en) * 1954-11-30 1959-07-07 Richard S Kay Pill dispenser
CH385413A (de) * 1961-01-05 1964-12-15 M & B Luchetta Fa Röhrenförmiger Behälter mit Ausgabevorrichtung für Tabletten und Pillen
AT337907B (de) * 1975-07-23 1977-07-25 Neumann Heinz Vorrichtung zur ausgabe von gegenstanden wie tabletten, kapseln, pillen od.dgl.

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US2893599A (en) * 1954-11-30 1959-07-07 Richard S Kay Pill dispenser
CH385413A (de) * 1961-01-05 1964-12-15 M & B Luchetta Fa Röhrenförmiger Behälter mit Ausgabevorrichtung für Tabletten und Pillen
AT337907B (de) * 1975-07-23 1977-07-25 Neumann Heinz Vorrichtung zur ausgabe von gegenstanden wie tabletten, kapseln, pillen od.dgl.

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2000032496A1 (en) * 1998-12-03 2000-06-08 Weimer Pharma Gmbh Flexible urging mechanism and dispensing kit incorporating same
WO2000068109A1 (de) * 1999-05-08 2000-11-16 Friedrich Sanner Gmbh & Co. Kg Spritzgusswerk Tablettenspender
EP1551738A1 (de) * 2002-06-20 2005-07-13 CSP Technologies, Inc. Spender für feste objekte
EP2287087A3 (de) * 2002-06-20 2012-10-17 CSP Technologies, Inc. Spender für Festobjekte
EP1551738B1 (de) * 2002-06-20 2012-12-05 CSP Technologies, Inc. Spender für feste objekte

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FR2628715A1 (fr) 1989-09-22
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