EP0570446B1 - Verfahren zum Auftragen einer Flüssigkeit auf ein Substrat - Google Patents

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EP0570446B1
EP0570446B1 EP92904219A EP92904219A EP0570446B1 EP 0570446 B1 EP0570446 B1 EP 0570446B1 EP 92904219 A EP92904219 A EP 92904219A EP 92904219 A EP92904219 A EP 92904219A EP 0570446 B1 EP0570446 B1 EP 0570446B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B7/00—Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas
    • B05B7/02—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge
    • B05B7/10—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge producing a swirling discharge
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B7/00—Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas
    • B05B7/02—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge
    • B05B7/06—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge with at least one outlet orifice surrounding another approximately in the same plane
    • B05B7/062—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge with at least one outlet orifice surrounding another approximately in the same plane with only one liquid outlet and at least one gas outlet
    • B05B7/066—Spray pistols; Apparatus for discharge with at least one outlet orifice surrounding another approximately in the same plane with only one liquid outlet and at least one gas outlet with an inner liquid outlet surrounded by at least one annular gas outlet
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B30—PRESSES
    • B30B—PRESSES IN GENERAL
    • B30B15/00—Details of, or accessories for, presses; Auxiliary measures in connection with pressing
    • B30B15/0005—Details of, or accessories for, presses; Auxiliary measures in connection with pressing for briquetting presses
    • B30B15/0011—Details of, or accessories for, presses; Auxiliary measures in connection with pressing for briquetting presses lubricating means

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  • the invention relates to a method for applying a liquid to a substrate, using a device with a two-substance nozzle, according to the preamble of patent claim 1.
  • Methods of this type can also be used for microdosing and in particular for introducing an active ingredient into a carrier, such as a tablet.
  • Another important application of such methods is the coating of a press chamber with a lubricant: for example in the manufacture of tablets for human and / or veterinary medicine, catalysts and various foodstuffs, it is necessary to use the upper punch or the male and the lower punch or coat the die with a lubricant to facilitate both the pressing process and the ejection of the tablet after the pressing process is complete.
  • a press chamber coating device is shown in Fig. 1 of this article.
  • a nozzle system is used which has a two-substance nozzle from which lubricant mixed with air emerges intermittently.
  • lubricant medium and air are alternately metered into the nozzle prechamber.
  • the lubricant is applied essentially to the bottom surfaces of the male and female dies or the lower die; According to the invention, however, it has been recognized that lubricant is required, in particular, on the peripheral edge of the tablet, ie the die, that is to say at the locations to which only comparatively little lubricant is used in the known device is applied. With this device, more lubricant than required is thus applied to the floor surfaces if the amount of lubricant on the press chamber peripheral wall (ie die) is optimally metered.
  • EP-A-0 244 204 discloses a method and a device for applying a liquid to a substrate; this method was used in the formulation of the preamble of claim 1.
  • the device has a two-substance nozzle which has an inner nozzle with an outlet opening and an annular space coaxially surrounding this inner nozzle.
  • the annular space has an outlet opening surrounding the outlet opening of the inner nozzle.
  • At least one gas inlet nozzle opens into the lateral surface of the annular space, the longitudinal axis of which does not intersect the longitudinal axis of the inner nozzle.
  • a device is also provided which supplies the liquid to the inner nozzle and a gas to the annular space.
  • EP-A-0 244 204 does not specify any operating parameters which would allow the liquid to be discharged on a hollow cone, as would be optimal according to the above statements, for example for coating press chambers with a lubricant.
  • the invention has for its object to develop a method for applying a liquid to a substrate according to the preamble of claim 1 such that it is possible, inter alia. to obtain annular application images on the substrate, so that, for example, when using the method according to the invention for coating a press chamber, the lubricant is primarily applied to the press chamber peripheral wall.
  • the gas entering the annular space which can be in particular air, but also an inert gas, such as nitrogen or a noble gas, is placed in a "turbulent ring flow" in the process according to the invention, which due to the metering of the liquid at the Exit opening of the inner nozzle formed convex meniscus "entrains".
  • the liquid is transported to the substrate essentially in a rotating path, which lies approximately on a conical surface.
  • the conical path results in a significantly thicker coating of the peripheral surface than the bottom surface, and in particular an excellent lubricant application to the between the lower stamp and the die formed gap.
  • a nozzle system is provided for each of the upper and lower tools, which is arranged such that the outlet openings lie opposite the respective bottom surface of the tool.
  • the “cone angle” depends on the distance (in the direction of the longitudinal axis) of the inner nozzle from the surrounding outlet opening and the dimensions of the individual elements:
  • the ring or point diameter is reduced. Conversely, the ring diameter increases when the distance is reduced:
  • a cone angle of approximately 90 ° is obtained with the usual viscosities of lubricants used in the pharmaceutical sector if the inner nozzle protrudes 0.1 mm beyond the ring opening with the specified dimensions.
  • the “inner diameter of the ring" can be made so small by appropriate design of the nozzle that in practice there is a point with a particularly preferred almost rectangular distribution of the coating material over the "area of the point".
  • suspensions which can be used in the process according to the invention have the advantage that practically all of the alcohol (e.g. ethanol) "evaporates” between the outlet opening and the tool surface or substrate, so that the lubricant is applied “dry”.
  • the permanent gas flow prevents the lubricant from “falling back” into the nozzle and other causes of contamination.
  • the method according to the invention enables the smallest amounts of liquid to be metered, so that it can be used in particular for microdosing.
  • the gas inlet nozzle has a cross-sectional constriction to increase the gas velocity, which in particular can at least reach the value 2.
  • a turbulent gas flow to provide at least two gas inlet nozzles in the annular space.
  • the gas inlet nozzles can be spaced in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the inner nozzle or they can be in the same plane, which is preferably as close as possible to the annular outlet opening.
  • the liquid is conveyed from a storage container via a pump and a valve system and corresponding connecting lines back into the storage container, and the amount of liquid required for the discharge in the almost unpressurized part of the circuit is removed via a bypass line, the cross section of which preferably smaller by at least a factor of 3 than the cross section of the Delivery line is a particularly pulsation-free, yet intermittently operable variable delivery of the small amounts of liquid required in the inventive method is achieved.
  • the method according to the invention is described below as an example for the coating of a press chamber.
  • the nozzle system designed according to the invention can be used in the same way for microdosing or for a printer and in particular a so-called large-character printer.
  • the device for coating a press chamber 1 with a lubricant such as is used in particular for the production of tablets, has an inner nozzle 2 with a longitudinal axis 2 ', to which the lubricant is fed intermittently.
  • a body 3 forms, together with the inner nozzle, an annular space 4 surrounding it.
  • two gas inlet nozzles 51 and 52 with longitudinal axes 51 'and 52' are provided, which are diametrically opposed to one another with respect to the axis of the inner nozzle and - at the embodiment shown - have a distance in the direction of the axis of the inner nozzle 2.
  • the axis of the gas inlet nozzles do not intersect the axis of the inner nozzle 2.
  • the axes of the gas inlet nozzle lie approximately in the tangent to the outer boundary wall of the annular space.
  • a gas for example air
  • the gas inlet nozzles 51 and 52 have a cross-sectional constriction, which typically reduces the cross-sectional area by at least a factor of 2. This makes it possible to supply small gas flows with low overpressures, typically in the range from 100 to 500 mbar. Nevertheless, there is good swirling of the gas in the annular space 4.
  • An outlet opening 33 for the gas surrounding the inner nozzle 2 is provided in the end face 32 of the body 3.
  • the front boundary surface of the inner nozzle 2 projects approximately 0.1 mm above the ring opening 33.
  • the boundary surface of the inner nozzle is preferably ground conically at a 30 ° to 45 ° angle.
  • the lubricant container can be a diffusion-proof bag with inlet and outlet and visual inspection.
  • the liquid is preferably metered intermittently into the rotating gas stream with a high-speed microvalve.
  • the dosing and dispensing process takes about 0.5 to 1 msec.
  • An almost unpressurized liquid is applied to the valve, so that it can be controlled at frequencies of 100 to approximately 300 Hz or more. Nevertheless, the gas consumption is only about 2 l / min.
  • the inventive lubricant is conveyed on a rotating path that runs obliquely to the nozzle axis.

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PCT/DE1992/000075 WO1992013643A1 (de) 1991-02-05 1992-02-05 Vorrichtung zur beschichtung einer presskammer mit einem schmiermittel

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