EP1557381A1 - Vorrichtung zum Verpacken von Produkten, wie beispielsweise pharmazeutische Tabletten, in Blister mit Mitteln zum Fördern der Produkte zu den Blistern - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum Verpacken von Produkten, wie beispielsweise pharmazeutische Tabletten, in Blister mit Mitteln zum Fördern der Produkte zu den Blistern Download PDF

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EP1557381A1
EP1557381A1 EP05364008A EP05364008A EP1557381A1 EP 1557381 A1 EP1557381 A1 EP 1557381A1 EP 05364008 A EP05364008 A EP 05364008A EP 05364008 A EP05364008 A EP 05364008A EP 1557381 A1 EP1557381 A1 EP 1557381A1
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Thierry Bochet
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B5/00—Packaging individual articles in containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars
    • B65B5/10—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles
    • B65B5/101—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles by gravity
    • B65B5/103—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles by gravity for packaging pills or tablets
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
    • B65B35/06—Separating single articles from loose masses of articles

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  • the invention relates to the field of packaging. More precisely, The invention relates to a device, commonly known as a blister, designed to ensure blister packaging of products, such as pharmaceutical tablets, capsules or soft capsules.
  • the devices implemented include a product reception area (tablets), means ensuring the scrolling of blisters and transfer means for send the products from the reception area to the blisters to deposit products in blister cells.
  • a product reception area tablettes
  • transfer means for send the products from the reception area to the blisters to deposit products in blister cells.
  • Blistering machines for blisters made of stamped material transfer means comprise a wheel having at its periphery cells corresponding to those of the blisters.
  • the tablets are deposited in the cells of the wheel, from the reception area, then are driven vertically blisters in the cells from which they take place under the effect of gravity.
  • This technique is particularly suitable for material blisters stamped to the extent that it is avoided to put the tablets in support on the the surface of the blister, which could distort it or cause scratching on its surface.
  • the transfer means are constituted by troughs extending parallel to each other (in number corresponding to the number of cells over a width of blister) and formed in a room called fluent lyre.
  • the tablets take place in the lyre and slide under the effect of gravity up to the band of blisters that scrolls under the lyre.
  • the purpose of the invention is in particular to overcome the disadvantages of the prior art.
  • the object of the invention is to propose a device for blister packaging of products that can work effectively at significantly higher rates compared to the solutions of art prior.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide such a device for conditioning that is not, or not, subject to jamming phenomena requiring stops of the device as mentioned above.
  • the invention also aims to provide such a device that can easily evolve according to the characteristics of the blisters (number and dimensions of the cells, spacing between cells ).
  • Another object of the invention is to provide such a device which is simple in design and easy to implement.
  • a packaging device in blisters products such as, in particular, pharmaceutical tablets
  • the means of transfer are active: they are no longer only guiding means, such as a lyre, in which the products that then move under the effect of their own weight.
  • the transfer means act on the products to accelerate their movement and / or exert a force on them.
  • the means of training according to the invention exert an action on the products in contact from each other so as to generate a thrust that is transmitted to tablets directly in the vicinity of the blister.
  • said guide means comprise at least one less a movable element forming training means.
  • said at least one mobile element has at least a housing groove for said products and are likely to be moved along holding means of said tablets in said or said grooves.
  • said grooves have dimensions adapted to those of said products to allow the training of said products on the one hand, and a waiting position of said products in said groove or grooves on the other hand, said movable element moving with a speed different from that of said product or products in said waiting position.
  • the means of transfer drive the products from the receiving area until the grooves are filled with products.
  • the moving part continues its displacement by exerting a slight friction on the products, which tends to drive a boost of products against blisters.
  • said one or more moving elements comprise at least one disc intended to be rotated.
  • the device comprises orientation means to guide those products in such a way as to encourage their introduction into said guide means.
  • said means orientation include at least one chute.
  • This chute has a significantly reduced length compared to those in the form of a lyre, as mentioned above, which limits the risk of malfunction.
  • said orientation means comprise means for pushing said products towards said guide means.
  • said thrust means preferably comprise at least one flexible pallet.
  • said orientation means comprise at least one groove integrated in said receiving means.
  • Such an arrangement also contributes to limiting the risks of malfunction (due to an incorrect introduction of a product, by example of a broken product) and to allow obtaining high rates.
  • said receiving means comprise at least one vibrating bowl.
  • the device comprises at minus a claw extracting said tablets from said means of guide.
  • said guide means have a recess in which at least partially penetrate said claw or claws.
  • said claw or claws extend by a surface slip on which said products move in the direction of said blisters.
  • said holding means extend so as to cooperate with said sliding surface to provide guidance of said products up to said blisters.
  • Such an arrangement also contributes to the simplicity of the device, this because of the reduced number of parts contributing to the guiding of the products.
  • said holding means are made in one transparent material.
  • the holding means can be made in one opaque material according to another conceivable embodiment.
  • the transparency of the material allows easy visual inspection of the transfer of products between the receiving area and the blisters.
  • the device comprises motorization means mounted on a fixed element of the device to actuate said drive means, the device comprising a subassembly including said drive means removably mounted on said fixed element.
  • the means of training can easily be replaced for either a maintenance operation or a adaptation to a change of blisters and / or products.
  • the invention also relates to a subassembly intended to equip a packaging device in blisters of products, such as in particular pharmaceutical tablets, comprising means for receiving said products capable of delivering the said products to transfer means including means for guiding said products to said blisters brought to scrolling in the vicinity of said transfer means, characterized in that it includes said guide means and said transfer means, the latter comprising means for driving said products along said means of guiding, said products being in contact with one another step by step along said guide means.
  • the principle of the invention lies in the fact that the products are brought into contact one after the other, the along a guide means, between a reception zone and the blisters using means of training.
  • these drive means are constituted by a disk 1 (or a set of several disks) having means for guiding tablets to blisters.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 show a disc 1 intended to be rotated to ensure the transfer of tablets from a reception zone 2 to blisters 3 obtained by thermoforming a tape of a plastic material.
  • Such a disk 1 has at its periphery grooves 11 (whose number varies of course depending on blisters) forming guide means of tablets in cooperation with a fixed element 4 which substantially marries the shape of the disc 1 so as to maintain the tablets in the grooves 11.
  • tablets present in the reception zone 2 take place in the grooves 11 of disk 1 and are driven by it to the blister packs that are disc 1.
  • the disc 1 is driven to present a linear velocity 10 to 20% higher than the linear velocity of the web thermoformed.
  • the disk When the device is started, the disk “fills" with tablets in the one to one, this being due to the fact that the scrolling of the blisters is less faster than the transfer of the tablets.
  • the tablets agglutinate one behind the others, the tablet or tablets ready to take place in the cells blisters being in contact with the thermoformed strip, resting on it.
  • This support is intensified by the action of the rotating disk, the walls of the grooves sliding on the products and exerting on them a slight friction.
  • these orientation means consist of by a wheel 5 carrying flexible pallets 51.
  • the tablets arrive in bulk at the level of the receiving zone 2 and are pushed by the flexible vanes 51 of the wheel which rotates in the direction indicated by the arrow F1 to introduce the tablets into the grooves of the disc 1 which rotates in the direction indicated by the arrow F.
  • the means of orientation are constituted by a lyre 6.
  • the tablets are transferred from the reception zone 2 to the guide means of the disc 1 by sliding under the effect of their own weight in the chutes of the lyre 6.
  • the receiving zone 2 comprises a bowl vibrator 21.
  • this vibrator bowl 21 has grooves 7 for receiving the tablets so as to orient them in correspondence with the guide means of the disk 1.
  • the device comprises a claw for extracting the tablets from the guiding means of the disk 1.
  • Such a claw 8 comprises points 81 which penetrate grooves 12 arranged at the bottom of the guide grooves 11.
  • the disc 1 rotates, it brings the tablets to the level of the claw 8, the tips 81 of it passing under the tablets that are guided then on the sliding surface 82 of the claw, which causes the extraction tablets from the grooves 11.
  • the tablets are then guided between the sliding surface 82 and the fixed element 4, to the blisters.
  • the fixed element 4 forms a single piece ensuring the maintenance tablets in the grooves of disc 1 and then on the sliding surface claws 8.
  • this element 4 is preferably made of a material transparent plastic.
  • FIGS. 6 and 7 illustrate an installation integrating a device according to the invention as that which has just been described.
  • the installation comprises a first zone of conveying (forming reception area 2) formed in this case by a strip cleats 22 driven by a first motor unit 23.
  • the tablets fall on a disk 1 (this is more like here a roller considering the width of the thermoformed strip which scrolls) then are oriented with the aid of a wheel pallets to be introduced into the grooves of disk 1 and then transferred to the blisters.
  • the disk 1 and the pallet wheel 5 are included in a subassembly removably mounted on the frame of the installation.
  • Figure 7 illustrates the installation when this subassembly is disassembled.
  • the installation has a fixed element 9 carrying motorization means 91 coupled to transmission means 92.
  • the subassembly including disc 1 is equipped with means of locking / unlocking 93 intended to cooperate with the fixed element 9.
  • this subassembly comprises an opening means 94 allowing access to the vane wheel and optionally replace it.

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FR0400710A FR2865458B1 (fr) 2004-01-26 2004-01-26 Dispositif de conditionnement en blisters de produits, par exemple des comprimes pharmaceutiques, incluant des moyens d'entrainement des produits vers les blisters
FR0400710 2004-01-26

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EP1780126A1 (de) * 2005-10-28 2007-05-02 MARCHESINI GROUP S.p.A. Vorrichtung zum Zuführen von verschiedenen Gegenständen zu einem Blisterband, wie Kapsel, Pillen und Tabletten

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US2585558A (en) * 1946-12-05 1952-02-12 Eino E Lakso Article counting and filling
FR1001466A (fr) * 1946-05-15 1952-02-25 Dispositifs pour le remplissage rapide de feuilles alvéolées en matière plastiquedestinées à l'emballage de comprimés, pastilles, pilules et autres produits de forme régulière
US3064406A (en) * 1957-09-20 1962-11-20 Kennedy Edward Article counting and loading machine
US20030038144A1 (en) * 2001-08-02 2003-02-27 Uhlmann Pac-Systeme Gmbh & Co. Kg Apparatus for sorting pills

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DE562703C (de) * 1932-10-28 Albert Henkel Pastillengruppiervorrichtung
FR1001466A (fr) * 1946-05-15 1952-02-25 Dispositifs pour le remplissage rapide de feuilles alvéolées en matière plastiquedestinées à l'emballage de comprimés, pastilles, pilules et autres produits de forme régulière
US2585558A (en) * 1946-12-05 1952-02-12 Eino E Lakso Article counting and filling
US3064406A (en) * 1957-09-20 1962-11-20 Kennedy Edward Article counting and loading machine
US20030038144A1 (en) * 2001-08-02 2003-02-27 Uhlmann Pac-Systeme Gmbh & Co. Kg Apparatus for sorting pills

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EP1780126A1 (de) * 2005-10-28 2007-05-02 MARCHESINI GROUP S.p.A. Vorrichtung zum Zuführen von verschiedenen Gegenständen zu einem Blisterband, wie Kapsel, Pillen und Tabletten
US7591122B2 (en) 2005-10-28 2009-09-22 Marchesini Group S.P.A. Device for feeding a blister band with various articles, such as pills, capsules, tablets

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