EP2716552A1 - Dispositif et procédé de remplissage surveillé de comprimés dans des godets d'un ruban de film - Google Patents

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EP2716552A1
EP2716552A1 EP12187633.8A EP12187633A EP2716552A1 EP 2716552 A1 EP2716552 A1 EP 2716552A1 EP 12187633 A EP12187633 A EP 12187633A EP 2716552 A1 EP2716552 A1 EP 2716552A1
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Markus Regner
Hans-Werner Bongers-Ambrosius
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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
    • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
    • B65B57/10—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged
    • 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
    • B65B35/10—Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles
    • B65B35/12—Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles by gravity
    • 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
    • B65B9/00—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, e.g. liquids or semiliquids, in flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material; Subdividing filled flexible tubes to form packages
    • B65B9/02—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs
    • B65B9/04—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs one or both webs being formed with pockets for the reception of the articles, or of the quantities of material
    • B65B9/045—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs one or both webs being formed with pockets for the reception of the articles, or of the quantities of material for single articles, e.g. 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
    • B65B2210/00—Specific aspects of the packaging machine
    • B65B2210/10—Means for removing bridges formed by the material or article, e.g. anti-clogging devices
    • 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 an apparatus and a method for the controlled filling of tablets in wells of a foil strip.
  • cups are first of all shaped into a film strip, which are then filled with tablets by means of a feed unit.
  • a feed unit usually has a plurality of filling channels.
  • the foil strip with the filled wells is then sealed with a cover sheet and finally punched into individual blister packs.
  • the present invention has for its object to provide an apparatus and method for the controlled filling of tablets in wells of a film strip, which facilitate the detection of blockages in the filling channels of a feed unit and make the troubleshooting user-friendly.
  • the device comprises for supervised filling of tablets in wells a film belt for producing blister packs, a transport device for conveying the film strip in a transport direction, a feed unit for feeding the tablets into the wells of the film strip, the feed unit having a plurality of filling channels, a test device arranged downstream of the feed device for checking the filling of each individual cup the film strip, a control device that receives the results of the test device, and a light or jet dispenser, which is controlled by the control device based on the results of the tester and optically identifies blocked Grekanäle.
  • the testing device comprises a camera system.
  • a camera system is able to simultaneously check a large number of wells of the film strip in its field of view and thus be able to perform the filling control of the wells of the film strip safely even at high production speeds.
  • each filling channel is designed as a filling tube.
  • the luminous or jet delivery device preferably has at least one laser pointer which illuminates a blocked filling channel. In this way, the light or jet dispenser is decoupled from the respective fill channels and can be used in conjunction with different feed units.
  • the at least one laser pointer is preferably pivotable in several directions. This provides the advantage that the number of laser pointers can be reduced to a minimum, particularly preferably to exactly one laser pointer, since, due to the pivotable mounting of the laser pointer, illumination of each filling channel in the matrix of filling channels becomes possible.
  • the luminous or beam delivery device has a plurality of lighting means, each of which is associated with a filling channel. On In this way several channels can be marked as blocked at the same time.
  • the lighting means are preferably designed as LEDs.
  • each filling channel is designed as a filling tube and the bulbs are integrated into the filling tube.
  • control device regularly detects recurring defects in the wells of the film strip and assigns a particular filling channel.
  • the laser pointer indicates sequentially the blocked filling channels, preferably in a repeating cycle.
  • the bulbs of the blocked filling channels are preferably simultaneously lit in the presence of multiple blocked filling channels.
  • tablettes for the monitored filling of tablets in wells of a foil strip is used for the production of blister packs.
  • tablettes is intended here to include all possible similar pharmaceutical products, such as oblongs, dragees, capsules, etc.
  • a transport device 2 for conveying a film strip 4 in a transport direction (arrow A).
  • the transport device 2 is the sake of clarity only in Fig. 2 indicated.
  • the transport device 2 can be present in many different embodiments and is structurally dependent on the blister design.
  • the transport device 2 moves the film strip 4 preferably clocked, but can also run continuously.
  • the film strip 4 has a plurality of upwardly open wells 6 to be filled with tablets.
  • a feed unit 8 is provided, which the tablets 10 (see Fig. 3 ) into the cups 6 of the film strip 4 feeds.
  • the feed unit 8 in this case has a plurality of filling channels 12.
  • each filling channel 12 is assigned exactly to a filling position, so that the filling channels 12 can be arranged stationary. It is also conceivable that the filling channels 12 are movable individually or in groups in one or more directions and thus can depart different cups 6 of the film strip 4.
  • the filling channels 12 are formed by filling tubes.
  • Each filling tube 12 preferably has the cross-sectional shape of the tablets 10 to be filled, which results in optimum guidance of the tablets 10 in the filling channels 12 leads.
  • gate valves are provided in the individual filling channels 12, which serve to separate the tablets 10 in the filling channels 12.
  • a test device 14 for checking the filling of each individual cup 6 of the film strip 4 is arranged downstream of the feed unit 8.
  • the test device 14 is preferably a camera system which covers a large field of view and thus can quickly check the filling of each individual cup 6 of the film strip 4.
  • other testing devices 14 may be provided which operate, for example, on a capacitive basis.
  • the results of the test device 14 are transferred to a control device 16, which receives these results and, based on these results of the test device 14, drives a luminous or beam delivery device 18.
  • the lighting or jet dispensing device 18 serves to identify blocked filling channels 12 optically, namely directly in the region of the filling channel 12 itself, so that an operator can recognize and clean the blocked filling channel 12 without any further effort.
  • the light or beam dispenser 18 is designed as a laser pointer. It can also be provided more than one laser pointer. Preferably, however, only one laser pointer is provided which illuminates a blocked filling channel 12 from above.
  • the laser pointer is pivotable in several directions, or has a suitable structure for directing the light beam to the desired filling channel 12 from the large matrix of filling channels 12. The light spot generated by the laser pointer thus identifies the blocked filling tube 12 directly on the object.
  • the laser pointer can also mark the respective filling tube 12 from other directions and thus make the blockage visible.
  • Other light or beam dispensers 18 are conceivable that project light onto blocked filling channels 12.
  • the luminous or jet delivery device 18 here has a plurality of luminous means 20, each of which is assigned to a filling channel 12. These bulbs 20 are thus arranged stationary on the filling channel 12. Preferably, the bulbs 20 are formed as LEDs.
  • the lighting means 20 can be arranged directly next to the filling channels 12. When the filling channels 12 as Gearrschreibchen are configured, the bulbs can also be integrated into the filling tubes, as shown in the enlarged view in Fig. 4 evident.
  • the inventive method for supervised filling of tablets in wells of a film strip proceeds as follows. First, the film strip 4 is conveyed in the transport direction A. In the intervals of the transport of the film strip 4 8 tablets 10 are fed into the wells 6 of the film strip 4 by means of the feed unit. Subsequently, each individual cup 6 of the film strip 4 is checked downstream of the feed unit 8 by means of the checking device 14 and, if necessary, recurring defects 22 are detected which indicate a permanent blockage of a specific filling channel 12. On the basis of the results of the test device 14, the lighting or jet dispensing device 18 is activated, whereupon it orients the blocked filling channels 12 optically.
  • the light emitting device or jet dispenser 18 will preferably display the blocked filling channels 12 in succession, for example in a recurring pattern, in the presence of a plurality of blocked filling channels 12. If the lighting or jet dispensing device 18 has a plurality of lighting means 20, each of which is assigned to a filling channel 12, the bulbs 20 of the blocked filling channels 12 will preferably illuminate simultaneously if a plurality of blocked filling channels are present. Flashing patterns or other signal forms are also conceivable.
  • the control device 16 does not have to be designed as an independent element, but may also be integrated into the test device 14 or the light or beam dispenser 18.

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