EP1595795B1 - Distributeur-doseur de comprimes pour contenants de l'industrie alimentaire - Google Patents

Distributeur-doseur de comprimes pour contenants de l'industrie alimentaire Download PDF

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EP1595795B1
EP1595795B1 EP03785964A EP03785964A EP1595795B1 EP 1595795 B1 EP1595795 B1 EP 1595795B1 EP 03785964 A EP03785964 A EP 03785964A EP 03785964 A EP03785964 A EP 03785964A EP 1595795 B1 EP1595795 B1 EP 1595795B1
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Joaquín ORDIERES MERÉ
Eliseo Pablo VERGARA GONZÁLEZ
Francisco Javier MARTÍNEZ DE PISÓN ASCACÍBAR
Fernando ALBA ELÍAS
Manuel CASTEJÓN LIMAS
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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 present invention relates to a device for supplying tablets consisting of solid additives, from a tank or reservoir for supplying said tablets, such that they are delivered in a unitary or multiple dosed form to a series of packages or containers used in the food industry and containers of other products to which said solid additives is required to provide.
  • the object of the invention is to ensure a fast process for fully automatically supplying said tablets and without an excessive compactness in said tablets, which might negatively influence on the subsequent dissolution thereof.
  • additives in the liquid phase are mainly used due to feed-dosage problems involved in using additives in the solid phase.
  • GB716026 discloses an apparatus for dispensing articles having a similar shape, such as tablets, from a hopper into a receiver that is provided with individual recesses. Tablets are delivered through a flattened funnel into which they are passed in a predetermined position defined by the inner width of the funnel that corresponds to the thickness of the tablets to be dispensed. Said predetermined position of the tablets inside the funnel is achieved by the provision of two rollers arranged revolving in reverse direction from the downward direction of motion of the tablets and being spaced apart from each other a distance corresponding to the thickness of a tablet.
  • the supplying-dosing device allows the use of food additives in the solid phase, specifically in the form of tablets, at a medium and high distribution speed with a low level of compression in said tablets in order to facilitate the subsequent dissolution thereof, and without causing any deterioration during handling.
  • the supplying-dosing device is structured from a tablet tank, having a suitable capacity so that its reload frequency is also suitable, the tank having a bottom portion defining a retaining ramp and including a side opening for outlet of tablets, in a layered form, to a down ramp, with a gradual slope, where a vibrator is placed transmitting a slight vibration to said ramp, enough for causing the gravitational displacement of the tablets but in turn low enough for not to endanger the compactness of said tablets.
  • Said down ramp arranged according to the tank bottom itself, which assumes a sloped arrangement, leads to an extractor mechanism in which a motor element acts on a pair of counter rotating blades and which mutually determine a unitary passageway for the tablets, which are coming in alignment to a second tank, in the form of a closed conduit, having sensors determining at every time the quantity of pills or tablets existing in its interior, and that is closed at its lower portion by means of a pair of pneumatic cylinders, which stems act inside the conduit-tank and do it alternatively, such that while one of them supports the tablets existing in said conduit tank, excluding the first or lower one, the other allows said terminal tablet to drop down into the corresponding reservoir to be dosed, which will be passed down to said conduit tank and which presence will be also detected by a sensor.
  • the device may be either unitary, supplying a tablet to a reservoir in each operational cycle thereof, or it may be multiple with several conduit-tanks and several extractor mechanisms receiving the pills from a single tank, in which case dosed provision of additives to several reservoirs may be carried out simultaneously.
  • the supplying-dosing device provided by the invention is formed from a tablet tank 1, having a significant capacity so that its reload frequency is less often in time, mounted in a high position on a supporting frame 2.
  • the tank defines a sloped reservoir inside of which a retaining ramp 3 is provided over which the tablets 4 are indiscriminately located, passing to the lower portion of said ramp 3 through the opening 5 formed in correspondence with the lowermost edge thereof, for reaching the bottom 6 of the tank 1, that is sloped in comparison to the ramp 3 y through which the tablets 4 come down also indiscriminately but in a laminar flow, the configuration of the tablets itself facilitating their displacement, specially visible in the detail of the figure 2 , and the provision of a vibrator 7 in the bottom of the tank 1 imparting a very slight vibration to said bottom 6 and consequently to the tablets 4 which facilitates gravitational displacement to an extractor mechanism 8 located to the outlet of the tank or reservoir 1.
  • This extractor mechanism 8 especially visible in the figure 3 , consists of a motor 9 which directly drives one blade 10 and that is provided with a gear wheel 11 in its shaft for synchronous movement transmission, through another gear wheel 12, to a second blade 10' that is rotated in a reverse direction to blade 10.
  • Said blades 10-10' as shown in figure 4 , have a rounded vertex, equilateral triangular configuration, and they are angularly phase shifted and properly spaced apart for forming a unitary passageway between them for the tablets 4, which are thus forced to leave the extractor mechanism in line for reaching a conduit-tank 13.
  • an ejection mechanism is also provided fitted on a support 14, located in the vicinity of its lower free end, and consisting of a pair of cylinders, particularly a head cylinder 15 and a tail cylinder 16, very near to each other, so that, e.g.
  • the head cylinder 15 is retaining all the line of tablets 4, when the tail cylinder 16 comes down, its stem is located between the last and the last but one tablets 4 as shown started in said figure 6 and at the end of operation as shown in figure 7 , the head piston 15 is retracted allowing the last tablet 4 to drop down to the reservoir 7 to be dosed, which will be previously located under the ejection mechanism 14 and which presence will have been detected by a sensor 18.

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Claims (4)

  1. Dispositif pour alimenter/doser des comprimés emballés pour l'industrie alimentaire, dont le but est de fournir de manière unitaire la dose appropriée d'additifs solides sous la forme de comprimés dans lesdits emballages, le dispositif comprenant un réservoir (1) pour lesdits comprimés, à l'intérieur duquel est prévue une rampe de retenue (3) qui mène sans discrimination les comprimés (4) à une ouverture (3) communiquant avec le fond (6) du réservoir, dans lequel les comprimés (4) conservent un emplacement sans discrimination mais avec un écoulement laminaire vers au moins un mécanisme extracteur (8), depuis lequel les comprimés (4) ont accès à l'intérieur d'un conduit-réservoir (13), ayant un mécanisme d'éjection (14), au-dessous duquel des comprimés (4) à doser sont situés de manière unitaire et séquentielle, dans lequel, sous le fond en pente (6) du réservoir à comprimés (1), est prévu un vibrateur (7) qui impose une légère vibration pour faciliter le déplacement des comprimés (4) vers le mécanisme extracteur (8),
    caractérisé en ce que le mécanisme extracteur (8) comprend un moteur (9) qui transmet de manière synchrone un mouvement rotatif dans une direction inverse à une paire de lames coplanaires (10) entre lesquelles est défini un passage ayant une largeur convenant à la taille des comprimés (4) pour déterminer ledit passage unitaire et en alignement desdits comprimés.
  2. Dispositif pour alimenter/doser des comprimés emballés pour l'industrie alimentaire, selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le conduit-réservoir (13) est constitué par un tube de taille appropriée de telle sorte que les comprimés (40) sont situés dans celui-ci en alignement, ledit conduit-réservoir (13) étant assisté par un capteur (21) qui détecte la présence de comprimés (4) et qui met en service le mécanisme extracteur (8) lorsqu'il n'y a pas de comprimés.
  3. Dispositif pour alimenter/doser des comprimés emballés pour l'industrie alimentaire, selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend en outre un mécanisme d'éjection constitué par une paire de cylindres (15) et (16), l'un étant un cylindre de tête et l'autre étant un cylindre de queue, qui fonctionnent alternativement, pour permettre la sortie unitaire des comprimés (4) à travers l'extrémité inférieure du tube qui fait partie du conduit-réservoir (13).
  4. Dispositif pour alimenter/doser des comprimés emballés pour l'industrie alimentaire, selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'il inclut une paire d'injecteurs à air (19) et (20), un injecteur situé à la portion inférieure du réservoir (1), dans le voisinage de son embouchure de sortie (5), et un autre injecteur au niveau de la zone d'accès vers le conduit-réservoir (13), qui éliminent la poussière éventuelle résultant des comprimés (4) et qui provoquent une surpression pour empêcher que lesdits comprimés soient affectés par des environnements humides.
EP03785964A 2002-12-18 2003-12-17 Distributeur-doseur de comprimes pour contenants de l'industrie alimentaire Expired - Fee Related EP1595795B1 (fr)

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ES200202907 2002-12-18
ES200202907A ES2242475B2 (es) 2002-12-18 2002-12-18 Suministrador-dosificador de comprimidos a envases para la industria alimentaria.
PCT/ES2003/000642 WO2004054881A1 (fr) 2002-12-18 2003-12-17 Distributeur-doseur de comprimes pour contenants de l'industrie alimentaire

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