EP0658489B1 - Dispositif pour le prélèvement de produits sphériques de mêmes dimensions, tels que des granules - Google Patents

Dispositif pour le prélèvement de produits sphériques de mêmes dimensions, tels que des granules Download PDF

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EP0658489B1
EP0658489B1 EP94420345A EP94420345A EP0658489B1 EP 0658489 B1 EP0658489 B1 EP 0658489B1 EP 94420345 A EP94420345 A EP 94420345A EP 94420345 A EP94420345 A EP 94420345A EP 0658489 B1 EP0658489 B1 EP 0658489B1
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    • 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
    • B65D2583/049—One rotational action of a cylindrical, disc-like or sphere-like element around its own axis, e.g. step-by-step, reciprocating

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  • the invention relates to a device for removing spherical components of identical sizes, contained in a container with a cylindrical neck and a circular mouth, the main application of which is the distribution and counting of small granules for medical use, and more precisely homeopathic granules.
  • a granule dispensing device comprising a plug having a recess which acts as an airlock, said plug being crossed by an axis connecting two movable discs each provided with a light.
  • the interior of the tube is brought into communication with the airlock via the light placed on the inner disc.
  • the granules accumulate in the airlock, then during an additional rotation, this airlock is placed in communication with the outside space of the tube, which allows the distribution of the number of granules that can be stored in the airlock.
  • Such a device does not allow the feeding of granules per unit.
  • all the dispensing body is inside the tube, which decreases the residual volume for the granules.
  • a granule dispenser has been described with a receptacle stopper fitting onto the mouth of the container and having means for driving the dispenser body in rotation.
  • the distributor is composed of a base fixed on the neck of the tube and crossed by at least one opening and the central part of which is crossed by a freely rotating axis, connecting two parts located on either side of the base.
  • the part placed inside the tube is composed of several radial arms between each of which is defined a housing capable of receiving a granule.
  • the second part placed outside the base is a disc pierced with a light intended to come opposite the opening of the base acting as an airlock.
  • the distributor body is largely inserted inside the tube, which reduces the remaining volume available for the granules.
  • the parts proposed to make this dispenser assembly are of complex shape, therefore very difficult to produce by molding.
  • the proposed assembly has no symmetry, which increases the difficulties in automating the positioning of this device at the end of the tube.
  • the invention overcomes these drawbacks, that is to say that it provides a device of simple shape and easy to mold, and having a symmetry making it easy to automate its implementation.
  • the invention consists in installing at the end of the tube a washer having an opening capable of allowing a granule to pass and a central hole capable of receiving an axis.
  • This axis connects two identical parts in the general shape of a disc having notches, the two discs being angularly offset so that the opening of the washer can only be on one side at a time.
  • the distributor body has a symmetry allowing it to be installed on the washer in either direction.
  • the radial slot of the washer consists of an axial bore proper, intended to be clipped onto the axis of the distributor body, and the axial slot proper is flared to form the recess intended to receive a product, in the form of a cylinder sector.
  • the cylindrical washer is supported in the neck on tabs formed for this purpose on the inside of the neck.
  • the cylindrical washer has on one of its two edges, a support flange on the circular mouth of the container.
  • the edges of the notches of the distributor body and of the washer are chamfered.
  • the inclination of the chamfer of the external faces of each of the two parts of the distributor body is greater than that of the internal chamfer.
  • the solid sectors of the two parts of the distributor body are provided with at least one drive tooth situated on their external face ending in the receptacle, the receptacle being provided on its partition internal of a ring gear located in a plane parallel to the faces of the distributor, to ensure the rotation of the latter by gear with the teeth of its external face.
  • the notches of the dispenser body are formed by three regularly spaced radial sectors. This allows the distribution of two or three granules per revolution of the distributor body.
  • the receptacle cap is preferably made of transparent plastic, while the container containing the granules is a cylindrical tube of colored plastic to protect said granules from light.
  • Figure 1 is a perspective view which shows the dispenser body according to the invention.
  • Figure 2 is a perspective view which shows the open washer according to the invention.
  • Figure 3 is a perspective view which shows the distributor body and the washer assembled.
  • Figure 4 is a perspective view in partial longitudinal middle section of the granule receptacle according to a variant of the invention.
  • Figure 5 is a perspective view of the dispenser body according to another alternative embodiment.
  • Figure 6 is a perspective view in partial longitudinal central section of the granule receptacle according to an alternative embodiment.
  • Figure 7 is a general exploded perspective view of the entire sampling device.
  • FIG. 8 is a section through a tube comprising the sampling device.
  • Figures 9, 10, 11 are sections of the tube equipped with the sampling device, allowing to progressively visualize the movement of a granule inside the dispensing device.
  • Figures 12, 13, 14 are sections of Figures 9, 10, 11 made respectively according to the planes identified by the arrows of Figures 9,10,11.
  • the granule dispensing device essentially consists of three parts, namely a washer (6) placed at the mouth of the tube, a dispensing body pivoting in the center of the cap, and a receptacle (11) suitable for receiving the granules.
  • the granule distributor body (1) as shown in FIG. 1, consists of two cylindrical parts A and B which are symmetrical with respect to an axis (2) connecting them through the center. These two parts A and B are identical and each consists of sectors of cylinders (3), concentric, equal to each other, cut vertically in the thickness of said part, and separated from each other by openings (4) equal between they and concentric with the cylinder sectors (3) whose dimensions are adapted to the diameter of the granules to be sampled.
  • the two parts A and B symmetrical and opposite with respect to the axis (2), are offset so that a full cylinder sector (3) of part A corresponds to an empty cylinder sector (4) of part B. As shown in FIG.
  • the solid sectors (3) and the empty sectors (4), equal to each other, are in a preferred version three in number, thus allowing the distribution of a granule every third of a turn of the distributor body (1).
  • This distribution rate is particularly well suited for counting conventional prescriptions generally corresponding to three or even five granules.
  • the two parts A and B are of an identical size, which allows indifferently, in a quick assembly, manual or automatic, to constitute one or the other face of the distributor body, which avoids any loss of time and eliminates any possibility of error.
  • the cylindrical washer (6) has an outer peripheral shoulder (9) which acts on the mouth of the container of granules (10), as shown in FIG. 3.
  • the thickness of this washer (6) is slightly greater than the diameter d 'a granule to be sampled.
  • This washer (6) is traversed by an axial bore (7) and an axial recess (8).
  • the axial bore (7), located in the center of said washer (6), is of an adequate diameter to grip, with a light force, the axis (2) of the distributor body (1).
  • the recess (8) is slightly secant from the axial bore (7) and also has an opening towards the outside of the washer, so as to allow the washer (6) to be able, thanks to the opening formed by the bore (7) and the recess (8), on the one hand come to be positioned on the axis (2) of the distributor body (1), and on the other hand, allow the passage of a granule between the parts A and B symmetrical to the distributor body (1) when these two parts A, B and the washer (6) are secured and positioned horizontally under the vertical tube (10) relating to the granules to be sampled.
  • the main function of the granule receptacle (11), made of transparent material, is to receive the granules when they exit the tube, and to allow the dispensing body (1) to be driven.
  • this receptacle comprises a toothed crown (12), situated in a plane parallel to that of the mouth of the container of granules, inside the receptacle integral with the latter, and whose teeth are directed towards the container of granules.
  • a toothed crown (12) situated in a plane parallel to that of the mouth of the container of granules, inside the receptacle integral with the latter, and whose teeth are directed towards the container of granules.
  • at least one of the solid sectors (3) has a drive tooth (5) meshing with that of the ring gear (12) of the granule receptacle.
  • This ring gear has a thickness suitable for that of the drive teeth (5) of the distributor body (1). This fits into a cylinder whose generator diameter roughly corresponds to the diameter of the cylinder's generator circle. interior of the receptacle, for rotations in optimal condition.
  • the teeth of the crown are identical to those of the distributor body (1) for a perfect rotating gear.
  • FIG. 6 shows another means of driving the dispenser body by rotation of the receptacle, means in which the central core (14) disposed at the bottom and inside the receptacle (11), comprises a female end piece (17) polyhedral which cooperates with a complementary drive system (16), located in the center of the external part of the distributor body to drive the latter in rotation.
  • the central core (14) disposed at the bottom and inside the receptacle (11) comprises a female end piece (17) polyhedral which cooperates with a complementary drive system (16), located in the center of the external part of the distributor body to drive the latter in rotation.
  • the central core (14) receives a cruciform male end piece cooperating with a complementary cavity (16) formed on the center of the external part of the dispenser body.
  • the drive can be carried out by any type of tip, male or female, internal or external, of the polyhedral cruciform type or of any other self-centering type.
  • the dimension between the base of the ring gear and the bottom of said receptacle should be at least equivalent or preferably slightly greater than the diameter of the granules to be sampled.
  • this pellet dispenser is illustrated in Figures 9 to 14.
  • the tube is inverted so that the receptacle is oriented downward.
  • the granules (15) are positioned in all the cylinder sectors (4) of part A of the distributor body (1), as shown in Figures 9 and 12.
  • the first granule (15) falls into said receptacle (11) while the second is entrained on the washer (6) by one of the two sectors of full cylinders (3) of part A of the distributor body (1).
  • This rotation brings one of the sectors of full cylinders (3) of part A into a position for closing the passage (8) of the washer (6) and one of the sectors of empty cylinders (4) of part B in an open position of said passage (8), which allows the descent of the first granule into the receptacle.
  • the washer (6) can be made symmetrically.
  • the washer (6) is introduced into the neck of the tube until it rests on the tabs formed inside this tube.
  • the symmetry of the dispensing body advantageously makes it possible to circulate the granules from the receptacle towards the interior of the tube, in the event that an excessively large number of granules has been dispensed.
  • the sampling device has many particularly advantageous advantages.
  • the system makes it possible to control the number of granules distributed, both in distribution and in recovery, as well as maintaining the seal necessary for optimal conservation of the granules.
  • the symmetry of the dispensing body allows a great simplification of the injection molds and also an ease of automation of the positioning operation, which results in a reduction in the investments required, an increase in yield and production rates.

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FR9315325A FR2713605B1 (fr) 1993-12-14 1993-12-14 Dispositif de prélèvement et comptage cyclique de composants identiques, sphériques ou assimilés.
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