EP1730052A1 - Dispositif de distribution, unite par unite, d'objets conformes tels que comprimes pharmaceutiques - Google Patents
Dispositif de distribution, unite par unite, d'objets conformes tels que comprimes pharmaceutiquesInfo
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- EP1730052A1 EP1730052A1 EP05744182A EP05744182A EP1730052A1 EP 1730052 A1 EP1730052 A1 EP 1730052A1 EP 05744182 A EP05744182 A EP 05744182A EP 05744182 A EP05744182 A EP 05744182A EP 1730052 A1 EP1730052 A1 EP 1730052A1
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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, 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, 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
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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
- 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 dispensing, by isolated unit, shaped objects such as pharmaceutical tablets, the dispensing of which is controlled by a partial rotational movement, in one direction or the other of a part of the device. , each partial rotation in one direction or the other causing the release of a shaped object.
- the invention relates more particularly to a device for dispensing shaped objects, such as, for example,
- unit which includes means allowing the collection, organization and organized circulation by gravity of the objects to be distributed in a free space created for this purpose, a storage in queue d objects stacked, in two columns, from free space
- the invention finally relates to an enclosed unit for packaging and distribution, unit by unit, of shaped objects which comprises
- the shaped objects to be dispensed by means of the device according to the invention may be sensitive to gaseous pollutants present in the ambient air of their packaging container.
- tubular envelope of the closed unit for packaging and unit-by-unit distribution of said objects may comprise means containing one or more agents for treating gaseous pollutants to ensure the treatment
- Shaped articles packaged in bulk in a container to be distributed unit by unit by means of the distribution of the invention, which may be sensitive to gaseous pollutants present in the ambient atmosphere, and which may be in shaped forms as diverse as tablets, or cachets, capsules, capsules, of circular or polygonal section, spherical or other granules, resulting in particular from pharmaceutical, food or other preparations.
- the gaseous pollutants which may be present in the ambient atmosphere of the containers for conditioning shaped articles which may be, for example, water vapor, oxygen (0 2 ), ammonia (NH 3 ), alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, sulfur dioxide (S0 2 ), hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S), mercaptans, alkenes including in particular ethylene, alkynes, carbon dioxide carbon (C0 2 ), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (N0 2 ), alkanes including in particular methane (CH), halogens including in particular fluorine, bacteria suspended in the ambient air and others.
- water vapor oxygen (0 2 ), ammonia (NH 3 ), alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, sulfur dioxide (S0 2 ), hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S), mercaptans, alkenes including in particular ethylene, alkynes, carbon dioxide carbon (C0 2 ), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (N0 2 ), alkanes including in particular me
- the shaped articles which may be sensitive to the polluting agents as mentioned above, to be packaged and distributed unit by unit are, in general, medicinal products, in particular effervescent ones, which it is desirable to protect so that their reactive effectiveness n 'does not change by reaction with at least one of the polluting agents, and / or so that their physical integrity is preserved over time and that, for example, a change in their mechanical cohesion is avoided.
- said objects are placed in containers provided with the unit distribution device having means of treatment against possible physicochemical attacks resulting from the level of concentration of gaseous pollutants, but also shielding them from light, in particular UV rays or also from degradation by mechanical effect such as shocks.
- the devices for the distribution of shaped objects by unit are integral or made integral, by mechanical assembly, with containers for bulk packaging of said objects, the unit-by-unit release of the objects to be dispensed being effected by gravity, that is to say ie during the inversion of the assembly formed by the packaging container and the dispensing device, then by rotation of the movable part of the dispensing device.
- thermoplastic polymer materials are made of thermoplastic polymer materials according to techniques known in the plastics industry. These devices can be distinguished from each other by the architecture specific to each, implementing:
- this type of device consists, in the order of travel of the shaped objects to be dispensed, of a first mechanical part in contact with the conditioned shaped objects in bulk, provided with means for guiding said objects in bulk and their horizontal classification, and with another mechanical part provided with means for sampling in the horizontal classification by unit of the first part, for picking up and distributing a shaped object , one of the mechanical parts being fixed and the other part being movable in rotation.
- a document (US P 4,782,981) describes such a unit-by-unit distribution device for shaped objects packaged in bulk, this device being an integral part of a package for packaging bulk items and for unit distribution of such items comprising three coaxial parts:
- This middle part is formed by a cylindrical plate provided with:
- a lower part of the male type fixed, which fits into the downstream face of the middle part, which is also a cylindrical plate provided in its central part with a truncated cone fitting into the frustoconical surface hollowed out of the median part and on its periphery of a notch of diameter similar to that of the cylindrical orifices of the median part, this notch, by rotation of the median part, arriving in agreement, in turn, with each cylindrical orifice of the median part and collecting the single object present in each cylindrical orifice to deliver it out of the device unit by unit.
- This type of device for distributing shaped objects to be dispensed individually has certain drawbacks which it is desirable to eliminate or reduce for the ease of implementing the device and for the physical integrity of the objects distributed. to unity by the device.
- this other type consists in the order of travel of the shaped objects to be distributed, of two coaxial parts:
- the first mechanical part being in contact with shaped objects packaged in bulk and having means organizing the guidance then the vertical classification peripheral to the unit of said shaped objects coming from said bulk packaging,
- the second mechanical part downstream of the first being provided with unitary sampling means in the unitary vertical vertical classification of the shaped objects to be distributed from the first part and means of distribution per unit of the shaped objects removed, one of the parts being fixed and the other part being movable in rotation.
- a document (USP 4,228,920) describes a device of this type for the unit-by-unit distribution of pharmaceutical tablets packaged in bulk.
- This device which is an integral part of a package for packaging bulk tablets and their distribution by unit, consists of two coaxial parts which are in the direction of travel of the shaped objects to be distributed, unit by unit:
- the free space When inverting the device for its implementation, the free space, the inter-wall distance of which is close to the thickness of the tablets, is filled with said tablets packaged in bulk, which form in their arrangement a peripheral layer, the thickness is that of the tablets, formed of successive rows of tablets having only tangential contacts between them by their edges, these rows having a pseudo-sinusoidal appearance due to the presence of a path ramp in the downstream part of the free space , ramp with two top zones and two low zones to lead the tablets to two unit storage cells for internal collection for distribution to the unit.
- the movable lower part is subjected to a rotational movement to create an axial correspondence between one of the unitary tablet storage cells of the upper part, and one of the two outlet orifices, concordance which releases at least one tablet, the cell emptied of its tablet being closed at the time of axial concordance by one of the two top areas of the path ramp and can not receive another unitary tablet after release of the alveolus by continuing the rotational movement of the lower part.
- the device for distributing shaped objects, unit by unit, device which can be mounted by its upstream face on a container for packaging said bulk objects, said container being able to ensure or not a processing of purification of the ambient air therein to protect said objects when they are sensitive to gaseous pollutants, and which can be closed by a cover placed on the downstream face.
- the device for dispensing, unit by unit, shaped objects which can be associated by one of its ends with a container for bulk packaging of shaped objects to be distributed and possibly by the other end , to a cover which can receive the objects distributed individually, consists of two parts which fit coaxially one inside the other, one, the female part being fixed, and the other the male part being mobile in rotation, and is characterized in that, in the order of travel of the objects to be distributed unit by unit from their bulk packaging area, a) the fixed female part which constitutes the upstream part of entry into the device of the bulk objects to be distributed, comprises:
- an internal envelope coaxial with the external envelope, closed in its upstream part and open in its downstream part, the distance from the external envelope is at least equal to the smallest dimension of the object to distribute to create a free space for orientation and organized movement of said objects from upstream to downstream ⁇ ,
- the movable male part in rotation which constitutes the downstream outlet part of the device for the distributed objects comprises:
- a base platform in the form of a circular disc constituting a stop for the external main cylindrical envelope of the female part, this platform being provided with an opening dimensioned for the passage of an delivered object through the at least one chute.
- ⁇ b2 an envelope coaxial with the base platform of which it is integral, having substantially the shape of the internal envelope of the female part of the device, into which it is inserted to ensure the rotation of the male part relative to the female part of the device.
- a rotational guide means mounted integrally and perpendicularly on the base platform, the free end of which is intended to be introduced into the opening in an arc of a circle in the foreground of the female part, i b4) a ring segment, mounted on the rotating guide means, which moves freely during the rotation of the male part of the device, between the two planes of the female part of the device and which closes at least partially, and at the end stroke, for at least one direction of rotation of the male part, the inlet opening of the at least one chute.
- a means for guiding the object to be distributed placed in the axis of the dimensioned opening of the base platform on the external wall ⁇ of the envelope coaxial with the platform of the male part.
- the various objectives assigned to the object of the invention stem from the inadequacies manifested by the unit-by-unit distribution devices, of shaped objects described in the state of the art.
- the insufficiencies noted in the devices of the state of the art for the distribution to the unit of shaped objects constitute, by their juxtaposition, a problem bearing simultaneously on: the lack of organization of the path of the objects to be distributed, their positioning oriented, their mode of sampling in a waiting area, the lack of treatment of gaseous pollutants, all these shortcomings can cause irreversible chemical and mechanical damage to shaped objects to be distributed to the unit.
- the unit-shaped distribution device for shaped objects is very different from the prior art by the fact that its new architecture gives it the means to solve the problem raised by the drawbacks detected in the distribution devices of the state of the art.
- the device according to the invention for unit-by-unit distribution of shaped objects consists of two parts, one female and the other male, coaxially interlocking.
- the female part of the device according to the invention constitutes, in the order of routing of the shaped objects to be distributed, the entry face into the device of a flow of objects to be changed from a disordered state to an ordered state .
- This female part is formed by an external cylindrical envelope, open at its two ends, provided on its external surface with a ring integral with said envelope constituting a stop when this female part of the dispensing device, is mounted on the opening d 'A tubular envelope of a packaging container, in bulk, of shaped objects to be distributed, and provided, on its outlet face or downstream face, with a cover collecting the shaped shaped object distributed.
- This internal envelope coaxial is a geometric envelope of revolution of cylindrical cylindrical-frustoconical, cylindro-conical, frustoconical, conical, parabolic type.
- the upstream part of this coaxial internal envelope can be the zone where a reduction in the section of said envelope occurs, and in this case can be of the frustoconical, conical, hemispherical, parabolic type.
- This internal coaxial envelope which is scalable, according to its geometry, is such that the annular free space created between the two external and internal coaxial envelopes ensures a path organized by gravity for the shaped objects from their bulk packaging zone up to 'to their unit distribution area, this organized route passing through the stages of collection of bulk shaped objects and selective orientation of these objects.
- the free space created between the two coaxial envelopes, external and internal reaches a minimum thickness in its most downstream part, slightly greater than the smallest dimension of the object to distribute forcing said object to be placed in a position of selective orientation to allow the continuation of its subsequent path from upstream to downstream.
- a first plane develops, close to the upstream end of said female part, perpendicular to the axis of the envelopes.
- This first plane has the shape of a circular sector whose angle at the top ⁇ takes a value in degrees which is a result of the diameter of the shaped objects to be distributed and the diameter of the female part.
- This first plane by its circular sector shape, creates a means of controlling the flow and orientation of the flow of shaped objects to be distributed, and respects between the two coaxial envelopes the free space for orientation and circulation organized in which is conducted and channeled said flow of shaped objects.
- a second plane Inside the female part placed between the first plane and the downstream end of said female part, there is a second plane, perpendicular to the axis of the coaxial envelopes and connecting them integrally.
- This second plane also has the shape of a circular sector having an angle at the top ⁇ whose value in degrees is a result of the values of the diameters of the shaped objects to be distributed and of the female part.
- This second circular sector of angle ⁇ occupies a position opposite to the first circular sector of angle ⁇ .
- This second plane is provided at the periphery and close to the external envelope with at least one opening, the cross section of which is dimensioned to ensure the passage, unit by unit, downstream of the shaped objects oriented in the orientation space. and of organized circulation: this section of the at least one opening is greater than the smallest section of the objects, but such that two objects shaped to be distributed cannot pass there attached to one another and at best very slightly greater than the smallest section of shaped objects to distribute.
- the angle T can vary by a value close to 0 ° when the two openings are joined, up to 180 degrees when the two openings are in diametrically opposite position, this variation interval being the same whatever the direction of rotation of the male part in the female part.
- This at least one chute open at each of its ends is delimited at the periphery by the external and internal coaxial envelopes and by two flat side walls connecting said coaxial envelopes, extending to the downstream end of said female part, these two walls may be parallel to each other or concurrent with each other from upstream to downstream of the at least one chute.
- section of the at least one chute can be:
- the section being reduced, in particular homothetic, from upstream to downstream of the at least one chute, to reach a very weak section at the outlet downstream greater than the smallest section of shaped objects to be distributed.
- the shaped objects to be distributed individually are stacked there according to their smallest section to be released, unit by unit, during the implementation of the device, at the downstream end at least one chute.
- the facing flat side walls as well as the walls formed by the coaxial internal envelope can be limited in length downstream, in the direction of travel of the shaped objects to be dispensed.
- the male part of the device according to the invention constitutes, in the order of routing of the objects shaped to be distributed, the outlet face to the unit, or downstream face of said device, of objects whose flow has passed from a state disordered to an ordered state.
- This male part according to the invention is formed of a base platform in the form of a circular disc acting as a stop for the main external cylindrical envelope of the female part during the mounting of the two parts constituting the device according to the invention.
- Said platform is provided with an opening dimensioned for the passage of a shaped object released to the unit by the at least one chute when said opening is brought into agreement by rotation with the open downstream end of the at least one chute.
- This male part according to the invention is also formed of an envelope coaxial with the base platform of which it is integral, envelope closed at its upstream end and open at its downstream end, having substantially the geometry of the internal envelope of the female part of the device in which it is inserted coaxially to allow the rotation of the male part relative to the female part.
- This envelope coaxial with the platform is an envelope with a geometry of revolution of the cylindrical, cylindro-conical, frustoconical, conical, parabolic type, the upstream part of this envelope being that where a possible reduction of the section occurs.
- This male part according to the invention comprises a guide means integral with the base platform, mounted vertically on said platform.
- the free end of the guide means is introduced into the opening in an arc of the foreground of the female part, and has the function of:
- the guide means integral with the base platform of the male part, is provided with a crown segment which moves between the two planes of the female part of the device when the male part is rotated.
- This crown segment can have a bevel shape at each of its ends, which promotes local agitation of the shaped objects to be dispensed, and selects one of the objects which it drives up to the upstream opening of the to the minus a chute according to the direction of rotation given to the male part.
- the crown segment closes, at least partially, for a direction of rotation of the male part, the inlet orifice of the at least one chute.
- the crown segment when the user turns the male part in one direction, and when said male part reaches the end of its travel, the crown segment at least partially closes the inlet opening of the at least one chute and when the user rotates the male part in the opposite direction, and when said male part reaches the end of its travel, the crown segment releases the inlet opening of the at least one chute.
- the crown segment mounted on the guide means which moves freely, during the rotation of the male part, between the two planes of the female part, at least partially closes and, alternately in limit switch, the upstream opening of the trunking.
- the male part comprises a means for guiding the object to be distributed to the unit, this guide means being integrally placed on the external wall of the envelope coaxial with the platform, in the 'axis of the dimensioned opening of the platform to ensure the gripping and ejection of a single object, from the at least one chute according to the direction of rotation practiced for the male part.
- Said guide means can have a hemi-polygonal, hemi-circular, hemielliptic section.
- the limited amplitude of the angle of rotation of the male part, from one end stop to the other end stop, is between a value close to 0 degrees and 180 degrees, c that is, this angle has the value substantially of the angle Y.
- the unit distribution device is generally associated upstream with a container for packaging said objects stored in bulk which supplies the device for distributing objects to be distributed and, downstream, with a cover. for the reception of the shaped object distributed to the unit.
- the invention also relates to a closed unit for packaging and distribution, unit by unit, of shaped objects which comprises, in order, a container formed by an envelope open at one of its ends for the packaging of objects in bulk to be dispensed, the device for dispensing objects to be dispensed unit by unit, mounted by its female part on the opening of the tubular casing, and a cover mounted on the male part of the device, said cover possibly causing partial rotation, in one direction or in the opposite direction, the male movable part of said device and cause the removal in the envelope of shaped objects to be distributed then their distribution by the device, unit by unit and finally the reception in the hood of the shaped object distributed individually.
- shaped objects to be dispensed unit by unit using the device according to the invention may be sensitive to gaseous pollutants present in the ambient air of their packaging container.
- gaseous pollutants mentioned above which may be present in the ambient atmosphere of the containers for packaging shaped objects, may be, for example, water vapor, oxygen (0 2 ), ammonia (NH 3 ), alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, sulfur dioxide (S0 2 ), hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S), mercaptans, alkenes including in particular ethylene, alkynes, carbon dioxide (C0 2 ), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (N0 2 ), alkanes including in particular methane (CH 4 ), halogens including in particular fluorine, bacteria in suspension in the ambient air and others.
- the closed unit for unit and unit packaging and distribution of said objects may include treatment means containing one or more agents for treating gaseous pollutants to ensure rapid purification of the ambient gaseous atmosphere by the elimination of said gaseous pollutants and in particular of water vapor which is particularly troublesome with regard to sensitive objects packaged in said envelope.
- suitable housings located in the tubular envelope of the bulk packaging container for the objects to be dispensed and / or in the receiving hood of the shaped object dispensed individually, can be arranged as a whole. closed packaging and distribution, in order to receive one or more agents for treating gaseous pollutants, to ensure their elimination by rapid treatment of the ambient gaseous atmosphere.
- the particular position of these housings is decisive for increasing the kinetics ⁇ of elimination of gaseous pollutants and in particular water vapor.
- the desiccant agent used, in the closed unit for packaging and unitizing shaped objects is chosen from the group consisting of silica gels, molecular sieves, clays.
- These closed desiccant assemblies are provided with internal ⁇ desiccant means which may be present in the form of a coating, an insert or part of the dispensing device, produced by means of a desiccant thermoplastic polymer composition.
- desiccant means are placed inside the containers on the internal surface of their bottom and / or on the ⁇ internal surface- of their side wall, or else, are placed in a special housing located at the bottom of the containers and / or on the internal surface of the cover, when they are in powder form or else in the form of compacted pellets.
- the distribution device as well as the closed packaging and distribution unit, unit by unit, of shaped objects, can be produced by the plastics processing methods using materials which are thermoplastic polymers and / or copolymers such that, for example, polyethylenes (PE), polypropylenes (PP), ethylene / propylene copolymers and mixtures thereof, polyamides (PA), polystyrenes (PS), acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymers ( ABS), styrene-acrylonitrile copolymers (SAN), polyvinylchlorides (PVC), polycarbonates (PC), polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), polyethyleneterephthalates (PET), used alone or as a mixture according to their compatibility.
- PE polyethylenes
- PP polypropylenes
- PP ethylene / propylene copolymers and mixtures thereof
- PA polyamides
- PS polystyrenes
- ABS acrylonitrile-butadiene-st
- thermoplastic elastomer of natural or synthetic origin.
- the elastomer (s) used may preferably be chosen from the group consisting of elastomers of the natural rubber, synthetic rubber type, in particular rubber based on olefins, such as, for example, polymers of isobutylene / isoprene, ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), ethylene propylene (EPR), ethylene propylene diene (EPDM), ethylene acrylic esters (EMA-EEA), fluorinated polymers, diolefin rubbers, such as, for example, polybutadienes, butadiene-styrene copolymers (SBR), rubbers based on condensation products such as, for example, polyester and polyurethane thermoplastic rubbers, silicones , styrene rubbers, styrene-butadiene-sty
- the device for distributing shaped objects to the unit, the tubular envelope of the bulk packaging container and the cover for receiving the shaped object dispensed to the unit by the dispensing device ' can be made with polymer materials of the same composition or with polymer materials of different compositions.
- all sides of the distribution device ⁇ of objects shaped to the unit according to the invention are dependent on the dimensions of the shaped objects to be dispensed.
- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the female part of the unit distribution device of shaped objects according to the invention, with a view on the upstream face or inlet face of bulk objects, including longitudinal axis is almost vertical.
- Figure 2 is also a perspective view of the female part of the unit distribution device according to
- FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the female part of the unit dispensing device according to the invention, in the case where said female part is provided with a single chute, with a view on the downstream face or face of exit of objects.
- Figure 4 is a perspective view of the unit dispensing device according to the invention, in the case where said female part is provided with a single chute, after assembly of the female and male parts, with a view on the face of entry of shaped objects in bulk.
- Figure 5 is also a perspective view of the female part of the unit dispensing device according to the invention, in the case where said female part is provided in its second plane with two openings and two chutes, with a view on the entry face of loose objects, the longitudinal axis of which is almost horizontal.
- Figure 6 is a jagged perspective view of the female part of the unit dispensing device according to the invention, in the case where said female part is provided with two chutes, with a view on the downstream face or outlet face objects oriented and placed in an organized queue.
- Figure 7 is a perspective view of the female part of the unit distribution device according to the invention, in the case where said female part is provided with two chutes, with a view on the downstream face or outlet face of the oriented objects placed in an organized queue in the two chutes.
- Figure 8 is a perspective view of the male part of the unit dispensing device according to the invention, showing the means for guiding the male part in rotation.
- Figure 9 is a perspective view of the male part of the device according to the invention, showing the means for guiding the objects to be dispensed to the unit.
- Figure 10 is a perspective view of the unit dispensing device according to the invention, after assembly of the female and male parts, with a view on the inlet face of the shaped objects in bulk.
- Figure 11 is a perspective view of the unit dispensing device according to the invention, after assembly of the female and male parts, with a view on the unit output face of the shaped objects.
- Figure 12 is a section along the longitudinal axis of the closed packaging and distribution unit, unit by unit of shaped objects, comprising in order a tubular envelope for bulk packaging of said objects, the dispensing device said objects and the cover mounted on the male part of the dispensing device.
- the distribution device unit by unit, of shaped objects consists of a female part (1) and a male part (2).
- the female part (1) comprises, in the order of travel, objects to be distributed, unit by unit, from their bulk packaging area:
- a single chute (17) mounted on a single openings (15) of the second plane (14), to create a queue storage of objects to be distributed from the free space (11 ), this chute being delimited by the coaxial envelopes (5) and (8) and by two side walls (19, 21);
- two chutes (17) and (18) mounted on the openings (15) and (16) of the second plane (14), to create a queued storage of the objects to be distributed from the free space (11), these two chutes being delimited by the coaxial envelopes (5) and (8) and by two side walls (19 , 21) and (20, 22) for each of the two chutes.
- FIG. 6, representing a device comprising two trunks according to the invention, makes it possible to observe the flat side walls (19) and (20) most distant from one another belonging to the two troughs (17) and (18 ), while the side walls (21) and (22), the closest to each other belonging to the troughs (17) and (18) are not visible in this figure 6 due to the perspective view shredded, but are in Figure 7.
- the male part (2) of the dispensing device according to the invention movable in rotation is as well suited in the case of the presence of a single chute as in the case of the presence of two chutes.
- This male part constitutes, the downstream exit part of the shaped objects distributed unit by unit, and is composed:
- a coaxial casing (26) to the platform (23), of which it is integral, having a cylindrical-frustoconical shape (26-27), closed at its upstream end (28) and inserted during the mounting of the male part (2) in the female part, in the cylindrical-frustoconical internal envelope (8) of the female part (1).
- This coaxial envelope (26) constitutes the downstream part of one of the walls of the at least one chute (17) and / or (18).
- a rotary guide means (29) of the male part (2) mounted perpendicularly on the platform (23), the end part (30) of said guide means (29) being introduced during assembly female (1) and male (2) parts in the opening in an arc (13), the ends of which constitute the end stops of the male part rotating in one direction or the other.
- the end part (30) of the rotating guide means (29) which emerges from the opening in a circular arc (13) constitutes a "stud" which has the property of agitating shaped objects, packaged in bulk in the area prior to the distribution system.
- This crown segment (31) can be cut at each of its ends, in bevels (32), which ensure the agitation of the shaped objects in bulk and their guidance, unit by unit, towards the at least one chute (17) or (18) in which said objects are stacked in a queue.
- a guide means (33) of the object to be distributed placed in the axis of the opening (25) of the platform (23) which has the property of releasing a shaped object, ensuring l l opening of the chute (17) while the outlet of the other chute (18) is closed by the internal surface of the base platform (23) and which by reversing the direction of rotation releases an object shaped by the outlet opening of the chute (18), while the
- outlet of the chute (17) is closed in turn by the internal surface of the base platform (23).
- each limited rotation of the male mobile part (2) corresponds to the * distribution of an object shaped by one and / or the other chutes (17) and / or (18).
- FIG. 12 representing an axial section of the device for distributing shaped objects to the unit, comprising two chutes, said device is mounted on a container (35) and a cover (36), constituting a closed packaging unit, possibly unit processing and distribution of shaped objects to be distributed, this assembly comprising in the container (35), an internal housing means (37) for receiving suitable treatment agents in the form of a powder mixture.
- the shaped objects to be dispensed individually, packaged in bulk in the container (35), are guided inside the outer casing (5) of the female part (1) and oriented by the cylindrical casing.
- the crown segment (31) with bevelled ends (32), driven in rotation in one direction or the other by the male part (2) ensures the agitation of the objects shaped in bulk and their unit by unit guidance to the troughs (17) and (18) in which said objects (39) and (40)
- a shaped object is released while the outlet of the other chute (18) is closed by the internal surface of the base platform (23).
- a shaped object is released by the outlet opening of the chute (18), while the outlet of the chute (17) is closed by the internal surface of the base platform (23).
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| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| FR0403270A FR2868403B1 (fr) | 2004-03-30 | 2004-03-30 | Dispositif de distribution, unite par unite, d'objets conformes tels que comprimes pharmaceutiques |
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