EP2855303A1 - Dispositif et procédé de distribution de doses de corps solides - Google Patents

Dispositif et procédé de distribution de doses de corps solides

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EP2855303A1
EP2855303A1 EP13728685.2A EP13728685A EP2855303A1 EP 2855303 A1 EP2855303 A1 EP 2855303A1 EP 13728685 A EP13728685 A EP 13728685A EP 2855303 A1 EP2855303 A1 EP 2855303A1
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holding
rotation
solid portions
dispenser
dispensing
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Thomas Sowden Reinhold
Christian Felsner
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Balda Medical & Co KG GmbH
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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

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  • Dispenser for solid portions and method for dispensing solid portions
  • the present invention relates to a dispensing device for solid particles in bulk and to a method of dispensing the solid portions.
  • Such devices and methods are typically used for pharmaceutical solid dosage forms in the form of drug portions such as tablets, dragees, pills, capsules, globules, microtablets, and others.
  • the invention may also be used for donating solid portions for other purposes, such as nutritional supplements, vitamin preparations and nutritional supplements.
  • a dispenser which outputs not only one but also several such solid portions in a defined number controlled, so that a predetermined amount of small-scale dosage forms can be readily separated and taken by any user.
  • a dispenser for dispensing such small-scale solid administration forms is given, for example, in EP 0 393 573 A1.
  • This dispenser has a channel for aligning granules to be dispensed sequentially.
  • This channel is formed by a soft tube which is deformable from a circular cross section into an oval cross section. The granules form a stack in the tube.
  • there are lips in the tube in the dispensing area which hold a granule and only release it when the tube is deformed.
  • protrusions which retain the subsequent granule when the tube for dispensing the first granule is deformed.
  • EP 2 201 925 A1 likewise describes a dispenser which has a reservoir for capsules or pills in the form of a plurality of chambers arranged parallel to one another.
  • the chambers are adapted to receive a stack of capsules or pills, respectively.
  • Below the chambers is disposed opposite to this rotatable register wheel with a receiving opening.
  • a dispensing opening is provided above an exit opening in a positioning disc. Since the receiving opening and the dispensing opening are not aligned, only one of these openings receives a capsule or pill from a chamber.
  • the capsule or pill can be conveyed from the dispensing opening into a connection channel, the dispensing opening and the connection channel together forming a guide element.
  • the other of the two openings is connected to one of the outlet openings.
  • the outlet openings are arranged in the same arrangement as the openings of the chambers, but with an angular offset from each other. Therefore, the capsule or pill is conveyed by rotation of the guide member to the exit port.
  • EP 0 261 617 A2 describes a metering dispenser which is likewise provided for shaped solids, for example tablets and pills in the smallest format.
  • This dispenser has inside a metering with dosing.
  • Below the Dosierrades is a base part with an ejection hole that can be made to coincide with one of the metering, so that a tablet or pill contained therein is ejected.
  • a tab In order for the tablets or pills contained in the space located above the metering orifices in the dispenser not to pass directly to the ejection hole through one of the metering openings, there is a tab at the corresponding point in the interior which covers the metering opening located there.
  • the dosing device described in DE 20 2004 021 462 U1 is used for the uniform and uniform individual dosing of dosable solid pharmaceutical administration forms tailored to a patient.
  • the device comprises a dosing container which contains a pipe section with portioning areas at its lower edge. The portion areas are filled individually by the solids contained in the container. They are separated by turning a scraper from the interior and fed to an ejection opening in the bottom of the outer casing of the dosing.
  • WO 2010/060568 A2 discloses a hand-operated metering device which has in a container a storage chamber and a dispensing area and a feed unit which connects the storage chamber and the dispenser area. The delivery unit is used for the occasional delivery of drug units into the donor area.
  • the feed unit is through a Feed wheel formed with feed pockets, which in each case takes a drug unit in the pockets with its rotation and supplies the donor area.
  • the feed wheel is electronically controlled by a motor.
  • the known devices for dosing solid pharmaceutical dosage forms and other solids are either not very reliable in terms of dosing a certain number of solid units or require considerable effort in their production, use and disposal.
  • the metering device from WO 2010/060568 A2 requires an electronic control and a motor drive, so that the feed unit can be operated.
  • the use and disposal after use of this metering device are complex and costly. Therefore, the present invention is based on the problem that the known devices and methods for dosing are cumbersome and costly or not sufficiently reliable.
  • a precise number of solid portions must be determined (dosing accuracy), in particular for the use of small-scale solid pharmaceutical forms, for example microtablets, so that a user can take the medicament in the required quantity.
  • small scale solid dosage forms are suitable, inter alia, for individual drug treatment of individuals, by depending on the nature and severity of the disease, the personal circumstances and physical characteristics of the user, such as children, as well as other parameters for a single medication a variety of Medicament portions is given.
  • This quantity determination and provision must also be possible without any problems, even if the patient himself is only able to count the solids portion by himself to a limited extent.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a
  • solid portion or solid portion
  • Such portions may, for example, have a mass of at least 1 mg, preferably of at least 3 mg, more preferably of at least 4 mg and most preferably of at least 5 mg. Further, these portions may, for example, have a maximum mass of 100 mg, preferably 50 mg, more preferably 10 mg and most preferably 7 mg.
  • Shaped solids portions may, for example, have a diameter of 1 to 3 mm, in particular of approximately 2 mm.
  • the portions can be shaped or in the form of granules. In the case of molded solid portions, they may be spherical, ellipsoidal, cylindrical, optionally with rounded edges.
  • the solid portions can be used both for pharmaceutical purposes, including homeopathic applications, as nutritional supplements, vitamin supplements, body builders, protein supplements, and other such uses.
  • Pharmaceutical preparations that can be dosed with the dispenser device according to the invention can be used in particular in the pediatric area.
  • Microtablets can be dosed with the dispenser according to the invention, for example, depending on the body weight of the patient (personalized medication).
  • this information refers to an orientation of the dispenser device in which it is ready for dispensing solid portions, ie an application opening is located at the lower end the device, and an optional adapter for connection of a primary packaging means for the solid portions is located at the upper end of the device, unless expressly stated otherwise.
  • the dispenser according to the invention serves to dispense solid portions. These arrive in a bed in the dispenser and are then present in the bed in the dispenser.
  • the dispenser device preferably has an axis of rotation.
  • the dispensing device has (a) a positioning device and (b) a holding device with at least one holding means, preferably with at least two holding means, for receiving in each case a solid portion.
  • the at least one holding means or the at least two holding means can be arranged coaxially with the axis of rotation.
  • the positioning device and the at least one holding means are movable relative to each other, preferably on tracks coaxial with the axis of rotation, so that the positioning means and the at least one holding means are aligned individually aligned and the at least one holding means by means of the positioning means each having a solid portion can be filled. Furthermore, the at least one holding means for dispensing the solid portions by a movement, preferably a rotation, the holding device can be emptied.
  • a dispensing device may be provided which in addition to the positioning means a holding device, for example in the form of a slider, wherein the holding means comprises one or more, for example in a row one behind the other holding means, wherein the holding device relative to the positioning device is designed for performing a linear movement.
  • the holding device For transferring a solid portion into a holding means, the holding device can be moved, for example, in a linear movement relative to the positioning device. If the holding device has only one holding means, the holding device for dispensing a solid portion can be moved back and forth.
  • the inventive method is used to donate at least one solid portion of a plurality of present in the bulk solids portions by means of a dispensing device, preferably by means of the dispenser device according to the invention.
  • the method comprises the following method steps: (a) positioning the solid portions at a delivery location by means of the positioning device,
  • Dispensing the at least one solid portion from the dispensing device by moving, preferably twisting, the holding device, so that the at least one holding means is emptied.
  • the solid portions are first arranged from a present in a bulk form of solid portions in a suitable direction for the following Singing alignment with each other, so that they are spent individually to a discharge from which they are the holding means individually fed. Therefore, it is not necessary, as for example in the dispenser of EP 2 201 925 A1, to fill the capsules or pills in a complicated manner, for example manually into the chambers.
  • the solid-state portions are initially transferred into geometric positions relative to each other, from which they can be successively and individually transferred to the holding means.
  • the geometric arrangement of the solid portions is automatically generated by means of the positioning device, without otherwise intervention would have to be made manually. By this arrangement, a secure filling of the holding means, each with a solid portion is possible. Only when this arrangement of the solid portions to each other is reached, which can be a solid portion in a
  • Holding means are transferred, so that a reliable output from the holding means is ensured.
  • each holding means is filled with exactly one solid portion.
  • the coaxial arrangement and movement of the holding means and the positioning means on a circular path coaxial with the axis of rotation allows a simple design solution for the successive filling of the holding means from the positioning device.
  • For filling the holding means only a relative rotation of the dispenser is required.
  • the filled holding means can then be emptied again in order to dispense the solid portions contained therein.
  • the dispenser device according to the invention can thus be operated by simple manual handling.
  • a motor drive as with WO 2010/060568 A2 is not required so that the manufacture, operation, maintenance and disposal of the dispenser device is simple and inexpensive.
  • the positioning device is formed by a positioning shaft into which the solid-state portions of the
  • the shaft extends along a top-to-bottom path so that the solid portions contained therein will gravitate when a portion of one of the retaining means advances at the bottom of the shaft, namely at the point of discharge.
  • the shaft can be easily filled by a bed.
  • the solid portions of the bed can be trained in the shaft.
  • the shaft can in particular be designed to accommodate only individual portions stacked on top of one another, namely in a head-end arrangement of adjacent (superimposed) portions.
  • the shaft cross-section is dimensioned so that only a solid portion can fall into the shaft and another solid portion rests on the previously arrived portion.
  • the portions form a self-organized buffer.
  • the solid portions are then transferred from such a stack forming a column successively in the holding means.
  • the shaft may have a quadrangular, preferably square, or round, for example circular, cross-section.
  • the positioning shaft may be in the form of a channel within a component of the dispenser device according to the invention or by a groove on or in the wall or a gap in the wall of a first component and a wall of a second component closing the channel.
  • the second component may be the holding device.
  • Trough is then formed by two components of the dispenser together.
  • the positioning shaft extends between an entrance opening in the upper area and an exit opening (discharge location) in the lower area. Between these two areas, the shaft may be rectilinear or curved or formed by a combination of rectilinear and curved course.
  • the holding device can be configured to store the solid portions above the positioning device in a storage device. to hold in the bed, ie the positioning device is arranged in this case below the storage space. Therefore, the solid portions can be easily poured into the storage space of the dispenser and form the bed there.
  • the dispenser device can be connected with an adapter to conventional primary packaging means for the solid portions, such as a bottle or tube in which the portions are provided to the user, such as by screwing or snapping the dispenser device onto the primary packaging means or above otherwise attached to this, and then fall the solid portions from the packaging into the storage room and form the bed there.
  • the positioning device preferably opens directly into the storage space in the upper area, so that the solids portions pass directly into the positioning device from the storage space.
  • the reservoir may be sized to accommodate the entire amount of solid portions that have been in the package.
  • the solid portions are held in this case substantially in the primary packaging.
  • an instruction room is located above the entrance opening into the positioning shaft. This training room is preferably part of the storage room. In the introductory room, the solids portions are already preceded and organized before entry into the positioning device, for example by being channeled towards the positioning device, for example by reducing the cross-section of the introduction space in the direction of the positioning device.
  • the introduction space can be formed by an annular gap above the positioning device.
  • a second wall surface arranged opposite thereto and arranged coaxially therewith.
  • the first wall surface may be formed by the holding device. If the dispensing device is not designed to separate the solid portions by rotating the holding device relative to the positioning device but by another type of movement, for example by a linear movement, this gap can in a corresponding manner and manner, in the case of a linear movement through a rectilinear gap.
  • the two wall surfaces can run parallel to each other.
  • the gap for example annular gap, with, for example, a constant gap width, for example annular gap width, causes the solids portions to be arranged and organized prior to entry into the positioning device.
  • the width of the gap can be dimensioned such that the solid portions can be accommodated therein only in one layer. This forms a favored for the positioning process structure of the portions out.
  • the annular gap may also be characterized by a width varying at least in the axial direction.
  • the annular gap can taper downwards, so that the solid portions are already organized in a suitable manner by the tapering downwards, in that only a single-layer layer of the solid-state portions can form at the lowest point.
  • the Einzhousraum or pantry is preferably funnel-shaped down to teach the solid portions in the slot can.
  • the introduction space is designed in the form of a gap / annular gap, its bottom surface can be designed to slope down towards the positioning shaft, so that the introduction space is narrow and funnel-shaped.
  • the bottom surface of the introduction space may have a height level rising from the entrance opening.
  • the bottom surface can have a highest level on the side of the introduction space opposite the input opening into the positioning shaft and a lowest level in the region of the input opening.
  • its bottom area can also be formed in a three-dimensional funnel shape sloping downwards towards the entrance opening, i.
  • the bottom surface of the introduction space falls substantially conically towards the entrance opening.
  • the holding device is profiled at least in the area in which it forms a wall defining the storage space, for example a wall with a wall inside and / or a wall outside on which the solid body portions rest.
  • the holding device is moved in relation to the positioning device by the wall defining the storage space, in particular the wall interior and / or wall outside of this wall, to impart movement impulses to the solid state portage thereon. onen.
  • this profiled wall slides along the solid portions lying against this wall side (s).
  • the profiling causes the portions are deflected with a movement component perpendicular to the wall from its rest position and move along adjacent portions. This causes the bed to vibrate or vibrate as it rotates, with the result that the solid portions are more easily fed through the entrance opening into the positioning well. As a result, a continuous flow of the solid portions is effected in the positioning device. In particular, the formation of bridges of solid portions which form directly in the region of the inlet opening is prevented, so that when the buffer of solid portions in the positioning device is at least partially used up, further solid portions are readily replenished into the positioning device.
  • This profiling can be achieved, for example, by a corrugation or corrugation transverse to the direction of rotation or a corrugation at an angle ⁇ 90 ° to the direction of rotation or by knob-like elevations or still another profiling or roughening, including a combination of said types of profiles.
  • the profiling is formed on the inner wall side of the holding device.
  • the profiling can be attached to the outside of the holding device.
  • the profiling preferably extends over the entire height of the Ein Anlagensraumes or the storage space, possibly also beyond it upwards and / or downwards.
  • the profiling can also extend into the region of the positioning shaft when the holding device forms a wall surface of the positioning shaft.
  • the solid-state portions located in the positioning shaft are likewise set in a shaking motion by the profiling during a rotation of the holding device.
  • the at least two holding means of the holding device are each formed by a receiving opening which, depending on the relative position of the holding device to an output device by means of the output device can be closed down or open by an application opening in the output device down, wherein the holding device with respect to the dispensing device and the posi- tioning device is rotatable.
  • the positioning device and the output device are preferably not rotated against each other. The solid portions therefore fall into the receiving openings and are held there, if there is a bottom surface of the dispensing device, which closes the receiving openings down.
  • the solid portions fall through the receiving openings and through the application opening out of the dispensing device.
  • the latter are larger than the portions in this embodiment of the invention.
  • the application opening may be approximately the size of a receiving opening or be substantially larger.
  • the receiving openings are emptied one after the other by bringing the receiving openings one after the other into coincidence with the application opening. In the latter case, at least one group of receiving openings can be emptied simultaneously.
  • a plurality of application openings can also be provided in the dispensing device, wherein these are then preferably arranged in the same arrangement as the receiving openings, so that a plurality of receiving openings with a plurality of application openings can be simultaneously brought to coincidence.
  • the at least one application opening preferably opens outwards, so that the solid state portions can be accepted by the user after passing through the application opening, ie they can fall into his hand or a glass or other container.
  • a clipboard can also be provided on the dispenser according to the invention, into which the portions emerging through the application opening fall and from which the user removes the dispensed portions.
  • the holding device preferably has at least 2, more preferably at least 8, even more preferably at least 12, and most preferably at least 16 holding means.
  • the holding device has at most 80, more preferably at most 40, even more preferably at most 30, and most preferably at most 25 holding means.
  • the holding device 20 may comprise holding means.
  • the holding device is rotatable relative to the other components of the dispenser device according to the invention.
  • the holding means can be brought into line with the positioning device, in particular with the exit opening of a positioning shaft, one after the other, so that the fixing body portions fall successively into the holding means and remain in them.
  • the holding means are preferably brought into coincidence with the exit opening in a plane below the exit opening of the positioning device. To fill the holding means, the holding device is rotated in a filling direction of rotation.
  • the holding means When the holding device is rotated in the opposite direction of rotation, namely in the dispensing direction of rotation, the holding means pass once more under the positioning device, so that if no solid portion had previously accidentally fallen into a holding means, there is again the possibility of one serving nachumble in this previously free holding means.
  • Holding means guided past the positioning device then run over the application opening in the dispensing device during rotation of the holding device in the dispensing direction of rotation, so that the portions contained in the holding means fall out.
  • the positioning device in particular the exit opening (discharge location) of a positioning shaft, and the application opening are arranged spatially fixed relative to one another.
  • the application opening is offset in the output direction of rotation to the positioning device, so that a holding means initially moves in the filling direction of rotation to the positioning device can be to be filled without the solid portions are moved past after filling from the positioning device in the holding means in this rotational movement at the application opening. Thereafter, the holding device can be rotated in the output direction of rotation, so that the holding means reach the application opening to be emptied there. During this rotational movement, the holding means pass the positioning device a second time before reaching the application opening, so that still unfilled holding means can then still be filled.
  • the dispensing device can have an adjusting device with an indexing agent.
  • This adjusting device is designed so that the holding device in the filling direction of rotation is only rotated so far that the desired number of solid portions reaches the holding means.
  • the adjusting device cooperates with the holding device.
  • the adjusting device can restrict the rotation range of the holding device in the filling direction of rotation via the indexing means.
  • the adjusting device can form an adjustable stop for the holding device, so that the holding device can be rotated only up to the stop, depending on the position, for example rotational position, of the adjusting device or of the indexing device.
  • an elastic element for example, a spring, in particular a coil spring provided, counter to the bias of the holding device is first rotated in the filling direction of rotation and then rotated the holding device in the output direction of rotation.
  • the holding device by means of the elastic element is first rotated in the direction of filling in a biased rotational position.
  • at least one of the at least two holding means is filled in each case with a solid portion.
  • the bias of the elastic element is then exploited to turn back the holding device from the prestressed rotational position to a rotational position in which the elastic element is relaxed again.
  • the solids portions located in the at least two holding means are dispensed from the metering device.
  • the elastic element is supported on a component in the dispenser according to the invention, against which the holding device is rotated, for example against a support panel, which can also serve as an output device and which is held against rotation relative to the other non-rotatable components, or against a feed insert, the is also held against rotation relative to the other non-rotatable components.
  • the dispenser device for equalizing the rotational movement of the holding device, in particular in the output direction of rotation, at least one motion damper, for example a rotary damper, on.
  • the motion damper By means of the motion damper the spring-driven rotary motion is damped in the output direction of rotation.
  • the rotary damper causes the rotational movement forced by the prestressed elastic element to be slowed down so that the portions NEN relatively slowly output from the holding means. Even if the torque of the rotation is increased in the output rotational direction, the rotational speed increases only insignificantly due to the damping. In addition, it is achieved at the reduced rotational speed that solid portions, which are to fall into still unfilled holding means, have enough time to pass into the holding means.
  • the damper also has the added benefit of delaying the rotation of the fixture during clamping. This also advantageously leads to the filling of the holding means with the at least one solid portion being ensured.
  • the motion damper may be a common component that exerts a damping influence, for example, on a rotary movement.
  • the damper may be formed for example by a viscous damper.
  • the viscoelastic property of viscous oils for example silicone oils, can be used to dampedly move two abutting surfaces against each other, in particular to rotate them against one another by filling the gap between the two surfaces with the oil.
  • the rotary damper like the elastic element, can be held on a component that is held against rotation in the dispensing device. His rotary member may be connected against rotation with the holding device, so that the torque acting on the holding device is reduced by the damping effect of the rotary damper.
  • the rotation of the holding device in the output direction of rotation can also be blocked in particular by latching elements in order to be able to trigger the rotation separately in this direction of rotation.
  • the holding device can engage with a non-rotatable component of the dispensing device, for example a control element suitable for this purpose, wherein the operating is fastened, for example, to the output device.
  • the triggering and thus unblocking of the blockage can be done by means of the operating element, which cancels the latching, so that the holding device can rotate by itself under the action of the elastic element in the output direction of rotation.
  • a filling and tilting safeguard can be provided, which ensures that the rotation of the holding device is only possible if the dispenser device is held substantially in a dispensing orientation.
  • the orientation of the application opening relative to the holding means which should be substantially (for example ⁇ 30 ° to the normal gravity) below a holding means, when it has been brought into coincidence with the application opening, can be regarded as a reference for the dispensing orientation.
  • this rotation axis should likewise be aligned within the aforementioned tilting tolerance (for example, ⁇ 30 ° to the gravitational normal).
  • the filling-tilt protection ensures that the solid portions are transferred from the storage room or training room in the positioning device and fall from there into the holding means. In the case of a tilting of the dispensing device beyond the tilting tolerance, the transfer of the at least one solids portion into the holding means would no longer be ensured.
  • the filling-tilt protection can be formed, for example, by balls running on tracks, these tracks being inclined with respect to the gravitational horizontal at a dispenser device held within the tilting tolerance. The balls block the rotational movement of the holding device with a tilting of the dispenser device relative to the normal.
  • a plurality of balls may be provided on paths differently inclined in the space, which, depending on the tilting direction, run along in space from a rest position on the tracks and can block the rotational movement separately.
  • the balls are in their respective rest position, in which the holding device is freely rotatable when the dispenser is held vertically within the tilting tolerance, or run to other positions on the respective tracks, so that the rotation of the holding device in the latter Positions is blocked when the dispenser device is tilted beyond the tilt tolerance.
  • the dispensing device according to the invention can have an anti-tilt device which prevents the at least one solid portion which has once reached the holding means from being transferred out of the normal back into the positioning device and is not dispensed by tilting the dispenser device.
  • the tilting tolerance may be slightly greater than in the case of the filling-tilt protection (for example, ⁇ 45 ° with respect to the gravity standards).
  • the output anti-tilt device preferably blocks the operating element which serves to trigger the rotation of the holding device in the output direction of rotation.
  • the anti-dump device like the filling and tilting safety device, can be formed by balls on one or more inclined tracks which, depending on the orientation of the dispensing device, are released from its rest position in which the operating element is unlocked, if the dispensing device is held vertically within the tilting tolerance. accumulate to other positions on the web and block the control element in the latter positions as soon as the dispenser device is tilted beyond the tilting tolerance.
  • the positioning means by a groove on or in the Au OHseite or through a gap in the Au .wand a feed insert and the gutter or the gap occluding the inside of the feed insert therein rotatably receiving and the holding device forming Do - siergetudes formed.
  • the metering housing is rotatable relative to the other components of the dispensing device in order to be able to fill the holding means contained therein by means of the positioning device and to be able to empty it again via the application opening.
  • the at least two receiving openings in the metering housing can be lined up along a circular path extending coaxially to the axis of rotation, for example equidistantly from one another.
  • the at least two receiving openings form the holding means for the solid portions which are to be dispensed.
  • the at least two receiving openings can, depending on the position of the holding device relative to an application housing, be closed by means of the application housing down or open by an application opening in the application housing down.
  • the application housing forms the dispensing device of the dispensing device.
  • the receiving openings are brought successively with the positioning shaft to cover, so that solid portions, which are located in the shaft, successively fall into the receiving openings.
  • the Dosiergetude is this manually so far twisted that the desired number of solid portions are filled in the holding means. All other holding means remain unfilled.
  • the filled receiving openings are moved successively over the application opening, so that the solid portions contained therein fall out.
  • suitable rotation about a fixed angle range only a predetermined number of solid portions is transferred into the corresponding receiving openings, so that subsequently only these portions are dispensed. Further receiving openings remain unfilled. For the manual rotation of the metering this is externally operated Shen.
  • the metering housing can in particular be prestressed by means of a spiral spring, the spring being supported in the application housing.
  • the bias of the coil spring generated when twisting in the filling direction of rotation leads to an automatic rotation in the return direction (output direction of rotation).
  • a rotation damper is also provided which, like the coil spring, is supported with its stationary part on the application housing and its rotary part is connected to the dosing housing.
  • the metering housing can preferably be blocked relative to the application housing by a toothing (ratchet) against a rotational movement in the direction of rotation of the output. This blockage can be canceled by means of an operating element.
  • the at least two receiving openings each have at least one radially outwardly inclined wall in order to spin out solid portions therein by means of the rotation of the metering housing through the application opening.
  • the axis of the respective receiving openings can thus be inclined to the vertical, namely down and out.
  • the positioning device is formed by a groove on or in the inside of a base body of the dispensing device and by a gutter-closing outside of a feed dome rotatably received therein by the base body, the feeding dome being part of the holding device.
  • the holding device additionally has a dosing bowl, which contains the receiving openings for the solid portions.
  • the Zu 2010dom preferably sits on the dosing and is arranged coaxially to the latter.
  • the at least two receiving openings in the metering bowl can be lined up along a circular path extending coaxially to the axis of rotation.
  • the at least two receiving openings can, depending on the position of the holding device relative to a support panel, be closed by means of the support panel down or open by an application opening in the support panel down.
  • the support panel forms the dispenser of the dispenser.
  • the filled receiving openings are moved one after the other over the application openings so that the solid portions contained therein fall out.
  • suitable rotation about a fixed angular range only a predetermined number of solid portions is transferred into the corresponding receiving openings, so that only these portions are dispensed. Further receiving openings remain unfilled.
  • the holding device can be biased in particular via a spiral spring, wherein the spring can be supported in the support panel. The bias of the coil spring generated during rotation in the filling direction of rotation leads to an automatic rotation of the holding device in the return direction (output direction of rotation).
  • a rotary damper is further provided, which, like the coil spring with its fixed part supported on the support panel and the rotary member may be connected to the holding device.
  • the holding device may preferably be blocked relative to the support panel via a toothing (ratchet) against a rotational movement in the output direction of rotation. This blockage can be canceled by means of an operating element.
  • the dispensing device further comprises a clamping device for rotating the holding device between a rotational position in which the holding device is under a bias, and a rotational position in which the holding device is relaxed on.
  • the rotation of the clamping device can be limited by a preset stop, so that a filling of the receiving openings of the dosing with the solid portions is limited to a predetermined number.
  • the clamping device thus forms together with the holding device a rotatable component in the dispensing device.
  • the clamping device can be operated from the outside, so that the holding device can be rotated via the clamping device, even if the holding device can not be manually operated from the outside.
  • the dispenser device according to the invention is preferably constructed substantially rotationally symmetrical with a substantially cylindrical body.
  • the other components are, apart from the optionally funnel-shaped design of the training room and control elements also designed rotationally symmetrical.
  • the component components of the dispensing device can be designed in a manner suitable for a rotational movement of the holding device.
  • the components of the dispensing device according to the invention are, if appropriate with the exception of the elastic element, preferably made of plastic, for example by means of injection molding or an extrusion process.
  • FIG. 1 shows an overall view of the dispenser device according to the invention in a first
  • FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the dispensing device of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 shows a view of the dispensing device according to the invention from FIG. 1 in a view with the feed cone and the feed insert in the metering housing;
  • FIG. 1 a sectional view of the lower portion of the dispensing device of Fig. 1; (A) with a supply of tablets through the positioning shaft and transfer into a receiving opening, (B) detail of Figure 5A when dispensing a tablet; View of the dispensing device of Fig. 1; (A) in the home position, (B) after transferring 15 tablets into the receiving openings;
  • FIG. 1 perspective partial sectional view of the lower part of the dispensing device of Fig. 1; (A) filling the positioning shaft and rotating the metering housing, (B) transferring tablets into the receiving openings, (C) dispensing a tablet after reversing the direction of rotation;
  • FIG. 1 1 an exploded view of the dispenser device according to the invention in a second embodiment with a bottle bottle screwed thereon; a perspective sectional view of the dispensing device of FIG. 1 1 with a
  • FIG. 1 1 a sectional perspective view of the dispensing device of Figure 1 1 with a representation of the positioning shaft.
  • FIG. 1 1 a perspective sectional view of the dispensing device of Figure 1 1 with a representation of a top-closed receiving opening.
  • FIG. 1 1 a perspective sectional view of the dispensing device of Figure 1 1 with a representation of the positioning shaft and a top-closed receiving opening.
  • FIG. 18 shows a perspective sectional view of the dispensing device from FIG. 11 with a representation of the trigger-anti-tilt device;
  • FIG. 19 shows a front view of the dispensing device from FIG. 11 with a partial inner view with a representation of the stop acted upon by the setting device by means of the indexing device;
  • FIG. 20 is a front view of the dispensing device of FIG. 1 with a partial interior view and an illustration of tablets emerging from the receiving openings;
  • Fig. 21 is a front elevational view of the dispensing apparatus of Fig. 1 with a partial interior view and a representation of a ratchet for blocking the reverse rotation of the dosing cup;
  • Fig. 22 a front view of the dispensing device of Fig. 1 1 with a partial interior view.
  • tablettes will be used below to represent other solid portions, which is why any type of solid portions should be understood when using this term.
  • dispenser devices according to the invention shown in the figures are used for the dosage-accurate dispensing of solid portions, for example tablets, in particular microtablets.
  • FIGS. 1 to 9 show a first embodiment of a dispensing device 1 according to the invention.
  • the dispensing device is connected to a primary packaging means, in the present case with a bottle F1.
  • the lid has been unscrewed from the bottle, and the dispenser device according to the invention has been screwed onto the bottleneck instead of the bottle cap.
  • the dispensing device is shown without this bottle.
  • the dispenser device 1 has a substantially rotationally symmetrical Au OHmantel with a central axis, the axis of rotation 2 for a holding device 4th forms.
  • the device 1 has an application housing 6 on the base, on which the dispenser device can be held, for example by hand.
  • This application housing forms an output device in the sense of the invention.
  • the application housing has a flat base plate 16 with an outer surface and a cylindrical shell 17.
  • a metering 4 is rotatably mounted.
  • the metering housing forms the holding device in the sense of the invention.
  • the metering housing like the application housing, is rotationally symmetrical and is arranged coaxially in the application housing.
  • the common axis is the axis of rotation for the metering housing.
  • the metering housing has a cylindrical wall 18 located in the visible range and at the lower edge an inwardly projecting receiving edge 19 in which the receiving openings 5 are located (FIGS. 3b, 4, 5).
  • a connection ring 20 for connecting the dispensing device to the bottle F1 is also fastened (FIGS. 1, 2).
  • this component is substantially rotationally symmetric and has a cylindrical wall.
  • a feed insert 14 which rests on the base plate 16 of the application housing (FIGS. 1 b, 4).
  • this component has a cylindrical wall which rests in the inserted state on the inner side 1 1 of the metering.
  • the feed insert further has a cylindrical recess 21, which is open at the top, in which a Zu Switzerlandkegel 22 is used (Fig. 2).
  • the feed cone rests with its cylindrical outer side on the inside of the recess in the feed insert.
  • the feed cone tapers from the upper edge 23 of the feed insert to a tip 24 which lies on the axis of rotation.
  • a rotary damper 9 is further attached to the inside of the dosing (Fig. 1 b). Its axis of rotation is held against rotation in the tip of the Zuzhoukegels.
  • a spiral leaf spring 8 is arranged in an annular gap 25 between the feed insert and the metering housing (FIG. 3b).
  • the feed insert, the feed cone, the connecting ring, the rotary damper and the spiral leaf spring are each arranged coaxially to the central axis of the dispensing device and the axis of rotation of the metering housing.
  • the metering housing 4 has at its base the inwardly projecting receiving edge 19 and at an inner edge of the receiving edge an upwardly projecting Abstützlasche 26 for the spiral leaf spring 8 (Fig. 3b). Between this Abstweillasche and a downwardly projecting tubular Abstweilstutzen 27 of the feed insert 14 of the annular gap 25 is formed, which receives the spiral leaf spring.
  • the feed insert sits with the AbstNeillstut- zen on a base 42 on the base plate 16 of the application housing 6 and is held centrally by means of a central and upwardly projecting guide socket 29 on the base, which extends into a correspondingly shaped recess on the base plate 30 of the feed insert.
  • the spiral leaf spring is in each case connected to the support lug 26 and the support stub 27 so that a rotation of the metering housing relative to the feed insert 14 and thus also relative to the application housing results in the tensioning of the spiral leaf spring. Otherwise, the cylindrical wall of the feed insert extends beyond the base plate down and engages in the space between the cylindrical side wall 17 and the Abstweillasche 26 of the metering, so that the metering is passed through the downwardly extending wall of the feed insert.
  • the base plate 16 of the application housing has in a central region of the base 42 on which the Abstitzlasche 26 of the metering is supported. On the base is also the guide piece 29, which extends into the recess in the base plate 30 of the feed insert 14 and thus also holds it. As a result, the metering housing is also guided through the application housing during its rotation.
  • the cylindrical wall of the feeder insert 14 extends up to a beveled edge 23, the lowest level in the region of a vertical and longitudinally extending gap 12 located in the cylindrical wall of the feeder insert, and its highest level on the opposite side Side of the edge lies.
  • the edge forms an upper narrow sloping surface which drops evenly from the highest level point over the edge to the lowest level point.
  • This edge when assembled, forms a ramp for the tablets Fk, which then enter the positioning shaft 3 formed by the gap at the point of the lowest level, where the entry opening 31 for this shaft is located (FIG. 5a).
  • the width of this edge which is determined by the wall thickness of the feed insert at this point, is preferably only slightly larger than the size of the tablets, so that the tablets can lie on the ramp-like edge only in one layer. This leads to an advantageous self-organization of the tablets in the storage space 10 above this edge.
  • the positioning shaft has a square cross-section which is slightly larger than the tablets to be passed therethrough, so that the tablets just do not get stuck in the shaft reliably.
  • the feed cone 22 is inserted into the upper cylindrical recess 21 of the feed insert 14 (FIG. 2) and adjoins the lower edge of its conical roof directly on the peripheral ramp edge 23 of the feed insert. Due to the oblique guidance of the ramp edge 14, the roof surface is not exactly conical but composed of several partial conical surfaces with different gradients, so that the lower edge of the roof terminates with the ramp edge. The roof surface of the Zutechnologykegels falls down to this so step-free. Because of the inclination of the upper edge of the feed insert, therefore, the roof of the Zutechnologykegels is formed asymmetrically. At the tip 24 of the Zu Switzerlandkegels a recess 33 for a holder of a rotary damper 9 is inserted (Fig. 3b).
  • the axis of rotation 34 of the rotary damper 9 is held against rotation in this depression.
  • the rotary damper is further held via a bridge 79 in a level above the Zuzhoukegels on the inner wall 1 1 of the metering 4 ( Figure 1 b), so that rotation of the metering 4 against the unit of application housing 6, feed insert 14 and supply cone 22 by means of Rotary damper is damped.
  • the structure of the rotary damper is shown in Fig. 10:
  • a rotationally symmetrical base part 35 forms the bridge, which is fixed to the inside of the metering.
  • This base part is formed by a base plate 36, which has a cage element 37.
  • the cage element engages around a likewise rotationally symmetrical inner plate 38 substantially freely movable.
  • the inner plate abuts against the inner surface of the base part. Between the inner surface of the base part and the side of the inner plate facing this inner surface there is a liquid film 39 made of highly viscous silicone oil. In the case of a relative rotational movement of the base plate to the inner plate, this film generates a shearing force which counteracts the torque which causes the rotation. As a result, the rotational movement is made uniform and in particular reduces the rotational acceleration.
  • the inner side 1 1 of the metering 4 is not smooth but provided with a vertical corrugation 40 (Fig. 4), which extends over the over the feed insert 14 upwardly projecting wall side.
  • the receiving openings 5 form a circular and coaxial with the axis of rotation 2 of the metering 4 arranged row in the receiving edge 19 of the metering (Fig. 7).
  • This series extends at least over a circle segment and comprises, for example, 16 receiving openings. These represent cylindrical openings of the receiving edge.
  • an application opening 7, from which the tablets Fk are output (Fig. 1 b, 5b, 7).
  • this opening completely penetrates the base plate 16 of the application housing and connects the interior of the dispenser device 1 with its external environment.
  • the application opening can be either slightly larger or significantly larger than the receiving openings 5 in the metering housing 4. It is located on a coaxial with the axis of rotation 2 circle with the same circular diameter as the receiving openings, so that the receiving openings can be arranged by suitable rotation of the metering relative to the application housing to the application opening in alignment. Otherwise, the inner surface 41 of the application housing closes the receiving openings downwards (FIG. 5A) so that tablets contained in these receiving openings can not fall out.
  • the inner sides 15 of the receiving openings 5 are chamfered in the radial direction downwards and outwards, so that their axes 84 are inclined to the vertical.
  • tablets Fk contained in the openings are thrown outwards and downwards on rapid rotation of the metering housing 4, in particular in the case of the backward movement forced by the spiral leaf spring 8, and out of the dispensing device 1 as the application opening 7 passes through them (FIG. 5b).
  • the metering housing 4 is rotated against the application housing 6 as well as the feed insert 14 and the feed cone 22 in a filling direction of rotation Bd, whereupon the spiral leaf spring 8 is tensioned and the metering housing is biased.
  • a latching in the form of a toothing 80 is formed on the outer wall 18 of the metering housing (FIGS. 2, 8).
  • An actuating stop 81 of an actuating slide 43 engages in this toothing and, if the actuating slide is not actuated, prevents the rotation of the metering housing in an output direction of rotation Ad.
  • the blockade of the reverse rotation in the output direction of rotation Ad can be canceled by means of an actuating slide 43 on the application housing 6 by being moved down from the engaged position with the toothing, whereupon the spiral leaf spring rotates the metering back to the starting position.
  • an indexing opening 45 is located in the application housing 6, by means of which the relative position between the application housing and the metering housing 4 can be read in the form of position numbers. These numbers are placed on the outer wall of the metering housing ( Figure 6). The position numbers indicate the number of tablets Fk dropped into the receiving openings 5 in the metering housing as a result of the rotation.
  • a primary packaging means for example a tablet bottle F1 containing a multiplicity of tablets, for example microtablets having a size of, for example, 2 mm, is screwed onto the attachment ring 20 of the dispensing device after its cover has been unscrewed.
  • a primary packaging means for example a tablet bottle F1 containing a multiplicity of tablets, for example microtablets having a size of, for example, 2 mm.
  • the tablets fall into the dispenser device and completely fill the storage space 10, including the introduction room, by forming a tablet bed there.
  • the tablets also fill the positioning shaft 3 completely. This serves to align the tablets with one another, so that they can successively pass into the receiving openings 5 via a delivery location, the exit opening 32.
  • the receiving openings are closed by the application housing down.
  • the tablets are thus held in the receiving openings.
  • the metering housing is no longer rotated.
  • the spiral leaf spring 8 is biased. In this rotational position, however, the metering housing stops because the relative rotation is blocked to each other. Only by a release by means of the actuating slide 43, the energy stored in the spiral leaf spring energy can be reduced again by the Dosiergephaseuse rotates in the output direction of rotation Ad, the rotational acceleration and speed of this reverse rotation are equalized by the rotary damper 9.
  • the filled receiving openings now run over the application opening 7, so that the tablets are discharged downwards and the receiving openings are emptied accordingly.
  • the tablets may be transferred directly to a jar.
  • an additional collecting container to be placed over the application housing from below, into which the tablets can be dispensed and from which they can then be removed.
  • this donor device 1 is excellent for reliable tablet removal.
  • a second embodiment of the present dispensing device 1 is shown.
  • This second embodiment is also connected to a primary packaging means, for example a medicine bottle F1.
  • a medicine bottle F1 for example, the medicine bottle in an adapter, here a base body 46, screwed in after the lid of the bottle has been unscrewed.
  • the dispenser according to the invention comprises the following components: a holding device 4 with a Zu fossildom 48 and a Dosierschale 50, the base body, in which the Zu fossildom the holding device freely rotatably centrally protrudes, a Dosierschale from below supporting support panel 6, a clamping ring 51, with the support panel rotatably connected, a spring-loaded release button 53 which is held in the support panel, a spiral leaf spring 8, which is supported in the support panel and is connected to the dosing, a rotary damper 9 to equalize the rotational movement of the holding device in the support panel and a filling anti-tip device 54 and an output anti-tilt device 55.
  • the outer shape of the dispenser device is essentially formed by the clamping ring on its underside, the base body in the middle part and an adjusting ring 56 in the upper region. These components, like the holding device, are rotationally symmetrical and are arranged coaxially with one another.
  • the dispensing device has a substantially rotationally symmetrical shape with a central axis, which simultaneously forms the axis of rotation 2 for the holding device, the clamping ring and the adjusting ring.
  • the adjusting ring 56 is connected by a positive connection with the base body 46 by latching lugs 57 with corresponding latching projections 58 on the outside of a Einschraubringes 64 of the base body (Fig. 12).
  • This latching is designed to allow a rotation of the adjusting ring 56 relative to the base body.
  • the collar is provided with a marker 60 which points to an indexing scale 61 on the base body ( Figure 19).
  • This indexing scale indicates the degree of rotation of the adjusting ring relative to the base body and thus a preselection of the desired number of tablets Fk to be dispensed.
  • the adjustment ring latches in equidistant angular steps in such a way that the marking on each index mark of the indexing scale latches.
  • the adjusting ring has a downwardly extending limiting lug 52, against which abuts a corresponding stop lug 62 at a suitable relative position of the adjusting ring for dosing 50 (Fig. 19).
  • the base body 46 has a peripheral outer wall 63, the outer wall coaxial with the outer wall 64 for the tablet bottle F1, and the insertion slot 59 connected to the screw-in ring via a lower horizontal connecting ring plate 65 (FIG. 17). These three components are rotationally symmetrical and arranged coaxially with each other. On the inside of its Einschraubringes the base body 46 for screwing onto the bottle neck thread of the bottle on an internal thread.
  • the Ein eurosschlot has on its inner side a groove 12 which protrudes on the inside of the Einouslysschlotes inwardly projecting and from top first vertically downwards and in the further course along the cross-sectional widening of the base body from the inside of the Einlegeungsschlotes starting in a curved path to au is pivoted (Fig. 13).
  • the gutter has a substantially square cross-section.
  • the base body 46 is seated with the lower edge of its peripheral outer wall 63 on an annular shoulder 66 on the clamping ring 51.
  • the support panel 6 is mounted in the interior between the base body and the clamping ring.
  • the holding device 4 is rotatably mounted.
  • the holding device sits with its dosing 50 on the support panel coaxially and protrudes with its Zu manufactureddom 48 through the Einzhousschlot 59 of the base body.
  • the outside of the feed dome and the top of the dosing dish abut against the edges of the channel 12 of the base body and they close in their longitudinal direction, thereby forming a positioning shaft 3 (FIG. 13).
  • the positioning shaft opens with its outlet opening 32 (discharge location) into receiving openings 5 in the dosing bowl of the holding device (FIG. 16).
  • the receiving openings 5 in the dosing 50 are circular openings which are lined up on a circular path with the specified diameter about the axis of rotation 2 of the holding device 4 (Fig. 15).
  • the dosing bowl contains 16 receiving openings, which are arranged distributed equidistant from each other over a circle segment of the metering.
  • the receiving openings which are not aligned with the exit opening of the positioning shaft are closed at the top by means of a ring screen 67 (FIGS. 14, 16).
  • This annular aperture extends annularly in the plane of rotation subsequent to the exit opening on the channel at the bottom of the base body down and extends to just above the receiving openings 5, so that therein tablets Fk can not fall out.
  • the receiving openings 5 are closed at the bottom by a top 41 extending over a circular segment of the support panel 6 arranged below the metering tray 50, so that the tablets Fk can not fall out (FIG. 17). With a suitable rotation of the dosing, however, the receiving openings are moved via an application opening 7 in the support panel so that they can be emptied down.
  • Fig. 20 shows receiving openings 5 in the dosing and two tablets Fk, one of which is about to get in from the positioning shaft 3 via its output port 32 coming into a receiving opening and another fall out through the application opening to the outside Shen.
  • the application opening extends over an angular range which is the same as the angular range occupied by the row of receiving openings.
  • a plurality of receiving openings are placed over the application opening in their respective positioning. This allows a safe dispensing of the tablets from the receiving openings even with very fast reverse rotation of the holding device 4, because the receiving openings are open during the reverse rotation of the holding device over a relatively long period down.
  • the clamping ring 51 is a over the same angular range as the application opening in the support aperture extending dispensing opening 68, which is opposite to the Application opening is arranged radially offset slightly inwards (Fig. 17). Since the clamping ring is rotated synchronously with the holding device, this dispensing opening is always under the circle segment occupied by the receiving openings.
  • the inlet opening 31 in the positioning shaft 3 lies in a recess in an annular gap 25 between the insertion slot 59 and the feed dome 48 of the holding device 4 (FIG. 12).
  • This annular gap is laterally formed by the outer side 1 1 of the Zu manufactureddomes and the inner side 47 of the Einzhousschlotes 59, which form mutually parallel wall surfaces.
  • the annular gap is delimited by an oblique ramp 23 at the insertion slot, the lowest point of which is formed by the input opening 31 in the positioning shaft 3.
  • the point with the highest level of the inclination ramp is directly opposite the entrance opening.
  • the ramp is thus formed by a narrow sloping surface which drops evenly from the highest level location to the lowest level location where the tablets Fk enter the positioning shaft.
  • the upper part of the feed dome 48 is not smooth but provided with a vertical corrugation 40 which extends substantially over the free wall height above the lowest point of the tablet ramp 23 ( Figure 12). Furthermore, the feed dome is cone-shaped at the tip. Its outside is also roughened and this provided with nubs 40. Tablets poured into the space above the feed dome form a bed in the storage space 10 formed there, which rests against the wall of the feed dome. As a result of the rotation of the holding device 4 relative to the base body 46 and thus opposite the insertion slot 59, the tablets F k bearing against the wall of the feeding dome are set in a shaking motion, so that they are aligned in a most favorable arrangement.
  • the tablets are further promoted by the shaking movement in the direction of the lowest level and thus trained in the formed by the groove 12 on the base body positioning shaft 3 ,
  • the area of the storage room located immediately above this tablet ramp can be regarded as an instruction room.
  • the spiral leaf spring 8 is housed and fixed (FIG. 17).
  • the Dosierschale 50 sits above the spring chamber and is also connected to the spiral leaf spring.
  • a rotary damper 9 is installed below the spring chamber and coaxial with the axis of rotation 2 of the holding device 4, which is connected via its base part 35 with the support panel 6.
  • the holding device is connected against rotation with the axis of rotation 34 of the rotary damper.
  • the clamping ring 51 is connected by means of a latching with the support panel 6, said latching allows a rotation of the two components to each other.
  • the clamping ring has an upwardly projecting drive block 85 which abuts against a downwardly disposed driver 86 on the metering tray (FIG. 20).
  • the spring arm of the release button and extending over a circle segment teeth are equidistant from the axis of rotation 2 for the holding device 4.
  • the toothing blocks the backward movement.
  • the release button extends radially in the area of the support panel 6 and protrudes outwards, so that it can be manually operated.
  • the button is formed by an external operating element 73 and a molded-on this button 74.
  • the probe arm engages around the wall 70 of the spring chamber 69 and is thereby held in the support panel, wherein the radial position of the probe arm is freely movable via a radial stylus path.
  • the feeler arm is actuated against the tension of a pressure spring arranged in the region of the operating element.
  • the feeler arm contains the spring arm 72, which is disengaged by the actuation from the area of the toothing 71 on the underside of the metering bowl 50 and thus releases the reverse rotation of the holding device 4.
  • the dispensing device 1 also has a filling tilt protection 54.
  • a filling tilt protection 54 located below the support panel 6 in the annular chamber formed by the clamping ring 51, three ball tracks 75 which extend in the radial direction and which are sloping towards the center of the clamping ring, so that the therein balls 76 in a basic orientation of the dispenser on this are lowest point (Fig. 17).
  • a tilt of the dispenser device can or can several of these balls on their tracks to the higher places roll and block in this position, the rotation of the clamping ring. This is done by a formed on the underside of the support panel and down chicane, where the balls start.
  • the filling-tilt protection serves to ensure that the tablets Fk located in the storage space 10 above the positioning shaft 3 reliably reach the positioning shaft and from there into the receiving openings 5. This would not be the case with a non-vertical or nearly vertical holder of the dispensing device.
  • the dispensing device 1 has an output anti-tilt device 55.
  • This device like the filling-tilt protection, is formed by a ball track 77 with a ball 78 running in it in the area of the release button 53 (FIG. 18).
  • This ball track runs transversely to the direction of movement of the trigger button and has a central lowest level and higher lateral levels.
  • the trigger button has at the bottom of a downwardly projecting chicane with a central cutout, which extends transversely to the direction of movement of the release button. The cutout in this chicane is located at the lowest level of the ball track.
  • the ball running in the track assumes the central lowest position when the dispenser device is held vertically or approximately vertically.
  • the trigger button can be actuated in the radial direction, because the ball can pass through the cutout of the chicane.
  • the spring arm 72 of the release button can disengage from the serration 71 on the metering shell 50 and release the reverse rotation in the delivery direction of rotation Ad.
  • the dispensing device is not held vertically or at least almost vertically, the ball will roll sideways to one side. As a result, the chicane is moved against the ball when pressing the trigger button, so that it blocks the further operation.
  • a primary packaging means for example a tablet bottle F1 containing a multiplicity of tablets, for example microtablets, is screwed onto the setting ring 56 of the dispensing device after its cover has been unscrewed.
  • a primary packaging means for example a tablet bottle F1 containing a multiplicity of tablets, for example microtablets
  • a primary packaging means for example a tablet bottle F1 containing a multiplicity of tablets, for example microtablets
  • the adjusting ring 56 is first rotated relative to the base body 46 so that the marking 60 on the setting ring for the desired number of tablets points to the corresponding index mark of the indexing scale 61 on the base body.
  • the limiting nose 52 on the adjusting ring is set to a specific angular position, up to which the stop lug 62 on the dosing bowl 50 can be rotated in the filling rotational direction Bd.
  • the spiral leaf spring 8 Upon rotation of the holding device 4 in the filling direction of rotation Bd, the spiral leaf spring 8 is tensioned. Since a rotation of the holding device in the opposite direction of rotation Ad due to the blockade by the engagement of the spring arm 72 of the trigger button 53 in the toothing 71st can not take place at the bottom of the dosing 50, the output of the tablets Fk from the receiving openings 5 is only possible when the release button is pressed, so that this blockade is canceled. By triggering the release button, the energy stored in the spiral leaf spring energy can be reduced again by the holding device rotates about the support panel 6, wherein the rotational acceleration and speed of this reverse rotation is reduced by the rotary damper 9 and thus made uniform.

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L'invention concerne un dispositif de distribution (1) destiné à la distribution sûre et fiable d'une pluralité de doses de corps solides Fk, de fabrication simple et dont l'utilisation et l'élimination ultérieure sont peu coûteuses. Le dispositif de distribution (1) selon l'invention est destiné à des doses de corps solides Fk en vrac et il comporte un axe de rotation (2). Le dispositif de distribution (1) est en outre équipé des composants suivants : (a) un dispositif de positionnement (3), et (b) un dispositif de retenue (4) comprenant au moins deux moyens de retenue (5) disposés coaxialement à l'axe de rotation (2) pour recevoir respectivement une dose de corps solides Fk. Le dispositif de positionnement (3) et lesdits au moins deux moyens de retenue (5) sont mobiles les uns par rapport aux autres sur des trajectoires coaxiales à l'axe de rotation (2), de sorte que le dispositif de positionnement (3) peut être aligné individuellement sur les moyens de retenue (5) lors du mouvement et que l'un au moins desdits au moins deux moyens de retenue (5) peut être rempli avec respectivement une dose de corps solides Fk au moyen du dispositif de positionnement (3). Lesdits au moins deux moyens de retenue (5) peuvent en outre être vidés par une rotation du dispositif de retenue (4) pour distribuer des doses de corps solides Fk.
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