US20080236100A1 - Small-object feeder for blister-packaging machine - Google Patents
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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
- B65B39/00—Nozzles, funnels or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers
- B65B39/007—Guides or funnels for introducing articles into containers or wrappers
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- the present invention relates to a small-object feeder. More particularly this invention concerns such a feeder for a blister-packaging machine.
- a foil strip is thermoformed to have an array of upwardly open pockets or blisters. This strip is moved continuously or in steps through a filling station where one small object, typically a pill, is dropped into each blister.
- a filling station where one small object, typically a pill, is dropped into each blister.
- the small-object feeder typically comprises a base plate that is oriented horizontally in the filling station immediately above, if not in actual contact with the upper surface of, the passing blister strip.
- This base plate has an array of holes corresponding to the array of blisters on the strip and is provided with a fill tube extending vertically upward from the upper face of the base plate.
- Another device feeds the small objects into the tubes and allows them to drop one at a time from the end thereof synchronously while the strip moves past in strips.
- the feeder can be reciprocated in its travel direction so that a number of pills are dropped during its downstream synchronous movement, and the tubes refill during the upstream return stroke. With a stepped blister strip, the feeder is stationary.
- Such cleaning invariably entails disassembling the feeder, that is separating the tubes from the base plate because the joint where the tubes join the base plate is particularly likely to foul, filling with particles of whatever pharmaceutical is passing through it. This is a laborious and expensive process that adds considerably to the changeover costs moving a filling machine from one format to another.
- Another object is the provision of such an improved small-object feeder for blister-packaging machine that overcomes the above-given disadvantages, in particular that is simple to clean.
- An apparatus for filling small objects into upwardly open blisters of a strip moving in a transport direction and formed with an array of the blisters has a feeder formed according to the invention by a carrier or base plate juxtaposed with the strip and formed with an array of throughgoing holes aligned with the pockets of the strip and respective tubes joined seamlessly to the plate at the holes and extending upward from the plate.
- the filling tubes and the filling tube carrier are embodied unitarily as one piece as a monolithic filling tube block.
- the seam-free construction has advantages over the entire service life of the monolithic filling tube block without requiring any special fittings or seals.
- At least one aperture or cutout is formed in each of the filling tubes. These cutouts can be used for sorting, buffering, separating, and depositing the small objects.
- the seamless joints between the filling tubes and base plate be made in a particularly simple manner by means of an embodiment as one piece. It is also possible that the separately manufactured filling-tube base plate and the filling tubes are permanently connected to each other by means of joining technology, thus, for example, with a filling tube base plate of a certain material, filling tubes made of the same or a different material are formed in an injection-molding process. This also makes it possible for the base plate and the filling tubes to be fabricated of different materials. In addition seats may be formed in the base plate for separate supplementary filling tubes.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a feeding system according to the invention.
- FIG. 2 is a larger-scale view of the feeder subassembly of the system of FIG. 1 .
- a feeder as used in a filling station of a thermoforming/packaging machine serves to load small objects into the blisters of a packaging strip S formed in a thermoforming station.
- the feeder serves for the controlled simultaneous filling of these small objects O into the blisters B of the blister strip S that are arrayed in rows extending longitudinally and transversely of its feed direction D laterally arranged on a surface and parallel to the blister strip direction, for which purpose the feeder has a plurality of filling tubes 1 that are integrated in a filling tube base plate 2 .
- FIGS. 1 and 2 show the filling tubes 1 have lower ends directly joined to the base plate 2 . It is also possible to position the base plate 2 is possible at a spacing to the free ends of the filling tubes 1 .
- the drawing illustrates that a total of two cutouts 5 are formed in each of the filling tubes 1 in order to adjust feed gates inside the tubes 1 in order to be able to perform a targeted separation and dropping of the small objects O in this manner.
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- Supply Of Fluid Materials To The Packaging Location (AREA)
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DE102007015647A DE102007015647A1 (de) | 2007-03-31 | 2007-03-31 | Zuführung |
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US20090263227A1 (en) * | 2008-04-16 | 2009-10-22 | Uhlmann Pac-Systeme Gmbh & Co. Kg | Blocking slide Unit of a Feed and Sorting Device for Packaging Machines |
US20090260330A1 (en) * | 2008-04-16 | 2009-10-22 | Uhlmann Pac-Systeme Gmbh & Co. Kg | Blocking slide Unit of a Feed and Sorting Device for Packaging Machines |
US20100260932A1 (en) * | 2009-04-10 | 2010-10-14 | General Electronic Company | Cold spray method of applying aluminum seal strips |
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US4026091A (en) * | 1976-03-25 | 1977-05-31 | Pearson Walter G | Article handling and placement apparatus |
US5737902A (en) * | 1996-09-19 | 1998-04-14 | Aylward Enterprises, Inc. | Apparatus and method for packaging pills |
US6497083B1 (en) * | 1999-11-10 | 2002-12-24 | Electro-Mec (Reading) Ltd | Packaging apparatus |
US7318304B2 (en) * | 2003-04-08 | 2008-01-15 | Hmh Maschinenhandel | Device for introducing pharmaceutical products into blister packs |
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US3530639A (en) * | 1968-11-12 | 1970-09-29 | Merrill Machinery Co | Pill box filler |
DE3560438D1 (en) * | 1984-05-02 | 1987-09-17 | Uhlmann Maschf Josef | Feeding apparatus in packaging machines for small pharmaceutical products such as tablets, pills, capsules, etc. |
JP2740566B2 (ja) * | 1990-04-26 | 1998-04-15 | 日本エランコ株式会社 | カプセル充填装置 |
JP3439001B2 (ja) * | 1995-08-23 | 2003-08-25 | 三洋電機株式会社 | 固形製剤充填装置及び制御装置 |
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- 2007-12-28 EP EP07025162A patent/EP1975072A1/fr not_active Withdrawn
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US4026091A (en) * | 1976-03-25 | 1977-05-31 | Pearson Walter G | Article handling and placement apparatus |
US5737902A (en) * | 1996-09-19 | 1998-04-14 | Aylward Enterprises, Inc. | Apparatus and method for packaging pills |
US6497083B1 (en) * | 1999-11-10 | 2002-12-24 | Electro-Mec (Reading) Ltd | Packaging apparatus |
US7318304B2 (en) * | 2003-04-08 | 2008-01-15 | Hmh Maschinenhandel | Device for introducing pharmaceutical products into blister packs |
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US20090263227A1 (en) * | 2008-04-16 | 2009-10-22 | Uhlmann Pac-Systeme Gmbh & Co. Kg | Blocking slide Unit of a Feed and Sorting Device for Packaging Machines |
US20090260330A1 (en) * | 2008-04-16 | 2009-10-22 | Uhlmann Pac-Systeme Gmbh & Co. Kg | Blocking slide Unit of a Feed and Sorting Device for Packaging Machines |
US7971727B2 (en) * | 2008-04-16 | 2011-07-05 | Uhlmann Pac-Systeme Gmbh & Co. Kg | Blocking slide unit of a feed and sorting device for packaging machines |
US20100260932A1 (en) * | 2009-04-10 | 2010-10-14 | General Electronic Company | Cold spray method of applying aluminum seal strips |
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Owner name: UHLMANN PAC-SYSTEMS GMBH & CO. KG, GERMANY Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNORS:GNANN, KURT;REGNER, MARKUS;REEL/FRAME:020726/0738 Effective date: 20080328 |
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Owner name: UHLMANN PAC-SYSTEME GMBH & CO. KG, GERMANY Free format text: CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE SPELLING OF THE NAME OF THE ASSIGNEE PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 020726 FRAME 0738. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE UHLMANN PAC-SYSTEMS GMBH & CO. KG.;ASSIGNORS:GNANN, KURT;REGNER, MARKUS;REEL/FRAME:020916/0983 Effective date: 20080328 |
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STCB | Information on status: application discontinuation |
Free format text: ABANDONED -- FAILURE TO RESPOND TO AN OFFICE ACTION |