US3601041A - Apparatus for feeding and printing tablets and capsules - Google Patents

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US3601041A
US3601041A US818339A US3601041DA US3601041A US 3601041 A US3601041 A US 3601041A US 818339 A US818339 A US 818339A US 3601041D A US3601041D A US 3601041DA US 3601041 A US3601041 A US 3601041A
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Andrew G Perra Jr
Frank W Sawtelle
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J3/00—Devices or methods specially adapted for bringing pharmaceutical products into particular physical or administering forms
    • A61J3/007—Marking tablets or the like
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F17/00—Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not otherwise provided for
    • B41F17/36—Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not otherwise provided for for printing on tablets, pills, or like small articles

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  • tablets are to be distinguished from capsules both in terms of appearance and their related problems in handling and printing, this disclosure will be presented referring to capsules," it being understood that in terms of scope of this invention tablets” are also embraced by this term.
  • FIG. 1a illustrates in general form a typical capsule with a printed legend on one side thereof, the other legend being placed on the opposed surface;
  • a. hopper means cooperatively mounted on top of said rotatable disc means
  • a powered shaft connected to said disc member for rotatably driving it in a substantially horizontal plane of rotation.

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US3802340A (en) * 1971-07-14 1974-04-09 Boehringer Mannheim Gmbh Apparatus for the imprinting of dragees
US3871295A (en) * 1973-09-04 1975-03-18 Hartnett Co R W Capsule orienting apparatus and method of spin printing
US3931884A (en) * 1973-09-24 1976-01-13 R. W. Hartnett Company Apparatus for transporting and orienting capsules
US4279336A (en) * 1980-01-28 1981-07-21 The Regents Of The University Of California Singulator
US5006362A (en) * 1988-05-09 1991-04-09 Berwind Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. Branding pharmaceutical dosage forms, food and confectionery products with aqueous ingestible inks
US5894801A (en) * 1997-09-30 1999-04-20 Ackleey Machine Corporation Methods and systems for sensing and rectifying pellet shaped articles for subsequent processing
US6267997B1 (en) 1995-11-01 2001-07-31 Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Method for producing printed confectionery products
US6314876B1 (en) 1999-06-07 2001-11-13 Ackley Machine Corporation Method and apparatus for transporting and processing a plurality of articles, and shaped article having serially registered component images
US20060075908A1 (en) * 1999-09-21 2006-04-13 Volder Laurent D Apparatus for printing objects of the tablet type, in particular medical tablets and process therefor
US7347141B2 (en) 2005-06-13 2008-03-25 R.W. Hartnett Company Single drum rotary printing machine
US20080156824A1 (en) * 2006-12-29 2008-07-03 Dikrun Dermarderosian Component feeding with continuous motion escapement
US8978869B2 (en) 2013-02-22 2015-03-17 Greg Schombert Centrifugal bowl parts feeder system with segmented tooling sections
CN111559176A (zh) * 2014-05-28 2020-08-21 株式会社斯库林集团 片剂印刷方法

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US792918A (en) * 1904-04-08 1905-06-20 Burt Machine Company Tablet or pill counting machine.
US1208373A (en) * 1916-10-13 1916-12-12 Clarence Edgar Rhodes Pulp-distributer.
US1413727A (en) * 1921-05-19 1922-04-25 Benjamin M Hanly Hot-rivet passer
US1990913A (en) * 1931-10-12 1935-02-12 Mcgregor John Ernest Malcolm Pneumatic ticket dispatch tube for telephone exchanges or the like
US2376620A (en) * 1942-09-26 1945-05-22 Champlain Company Inc Inking mechanism
US2695004A (en) * 1951-03-02 1954-11-23 Champion Paper & Fibre Co Doctor blade for coating machines
US2701545A (en) * 1952-08-02 1955-02-08 Scherer Corp R P Capsule encircling machine
US2785786A (en) * 1955-04-25 1957-03-19 Smith Kline French Lab Conveying apparatus
US2859689A (en) * 1953-10-28 1958-11-11 Hartnett Co R W Pellet marking machine
US2867246A (en) * 1955-12-20 1959-01-06 Cons Foundries And Mfg Corp Receptacle filler
US2931292A (en) * 1956-08-28 1960-04-05 R H Hartnett Company Marking machines
US3044599A (en) * 1959-08-17 1962-07-17 Arthur Colton Company Feeding mechanism
US3103165A (en) * 1959-08-03 1963-09-10 Markem Machine Co Machine for printing capsules and the like
US3182632A (en) * 1962-02-05 1965-05-11 Riegel Paper Corp Coating apparatus with improved doctor means
US3272118A (en) * 1965-02-04 1966-09-13 Hartnett Co R W Article marking machine
US3294060A (en) * 1966-03-21 1966-12-27 Donald B Mcintyre Fluid applicator
US3400658A (en) * 1965-04-20 1968-09-10 Interchem Corp Method of intaglio printing

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US792918A (en) * 1904-04-08 1905-06-20 Burt Machine Company Tablet or pill counting machine.
US1208373A (en) * 1916-10-13 1916-12-12 Clarence Edgar Rhodes Pulp-distributer.
US1413727A (en) * 1921-05-19 1922-04-25 Benjamin M Hanly Hot-rivet passer
US1990913A (en) * 1931-10-12 1935-02-12 Mcgregor John Ernest Malcolm Pneumatic ticket dispatch tube for telephone exchanges or the like
US2376620A (en) * 1942-09-26 1945-05-22 Champlain Company Inc Inking mechanism
US2695004A (en) * 1951-03-02 1954-11-23 Champion Paper & Fibre Co Doctor blade for coating machines
US2701545A (en) * 1952-08-02 1955-02-08 Scherer Corp R P Capsule encircling machine
US2859689A (en) * 1953-10-28 1958-11-11 Hartnett Co R W Pellet marking machine
US2785786A (en) * 1955-04-25 1957-03-19 Smith Kline French Lab Conveying apparatus
US2867246A (en) * 1955-12-20 1959-01-06 Cons Foundries And Mfg Corp Receptacle filler
US2931292A (en) * 1956-08-28 1960-04-05 R H Hartnett Company Marking machines
US3103165A (en) * 1959-08-03 1963-09-10 Markem Machine Co Machine for printing capsules and the like
US3044599A (en) * 1959-08-17 1962-07-17 Arthur Colton Company Feeding mechanism
US3182632A (en) * 1962-02-05 1965-05-11 Riegel Paper Corp Coating apparatus with improved doctor means
US3272118A (en) * 1965-02-04 1966-09-13 Hartnett Co R W Article marking machine
US3400658A (en) * 1965-04-20 1968-09-10 Interchem Corp Method of intaglio printing
US3294060A (en) * 1966-03-21 1966-12-27 Donald B Mcintyre Fluid applicator

Cited By (17)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3802340A (en) * 1971-07-14 1974-04-09 Boehringer Mannheim Gmbh Apparatus for the imprinting of dragees
US3871295A (en) * 1973-09-04 1975-03-18 Hartnett Co R W Capsule orienting apparatus and method of spin printing
US3931884A (en) * 1973-09-24 1976-01-13 R. W. Hartnett Company Apparatus for transporting and orienting capsules
US4279336A (en) * 1980-01-28 1981-07-21 The Regents Of The University Of California Singulator
US5006362A (en) * 1988-05-09 1991-04-09 Berwind Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. Branding pharmaceutical dosage forms, food and confectionery products with aqueous ingestible inks
US5435840A (en) * 1988-05-09 1995-07-25 Berwind Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. Branding pharmaceutical dosage forms, food and confectionery products with aqueous ingestible inks
US6267997B1 (en) 1995-11-01 2001-07-31 Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Method for producing printed confectionery products
US5894801A (en) * 1997-09-30 1999-04-20 Ackleey Machine Corporation Methods and systems for sensing and rectifying pellet shaped articles for subsequent processing
US6314876B1 (en) 1999-06-07 2001-11-13 Ackley Machine Corporation Method and apparatus for transporting and processing a plurality of articles, and shaped article having serially registered component images
US20020028274A1 (en) * 1999-06-07 2002-03-07 Ackley Machine Corporation Method and apparatus for transporting a plurality of articles, and shaped article having serially registered component images
US6834581B2 (en) 1999-06-07 2004-12-28 Ackley Machine Corporation Method and apparatus for transporting a plurality of articles, and shaped article having serially registered component images
US20060075908A1 (en) * 1999-09-21 2006-04-13 Volder Laurent D Apparatus for printing objects of the tablet type, in particular medical tablets and process therefor
US7347141B2 (en) 2005-06-13 2008-03-25 R.W. Hartnett Company Single drum rotary printing machine
US20080156824A1 (en) * 2006-12-29 2008-07-03 Dikrun Dermarderosian Component feeding with continuous motion escapement
US7740125B2 (en) 2006-12-29 2010-06-22 The Gillette Company Component feeding with continuous motion escapement
US8978869B2 (en) 2013-02-22 2015-03-17 Greg Schombert Centrifugal bowl parts feeder system with segmented tooling sections
CN111559176A (zh) * 2014-05-28 2020-08-21 株式会社斯库林集团 片剂印刷方法

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JPS4946848B1 (ja) 1974-12-12
FR2063830A5 (ja) 1971-07-09
DE2019186A1 (de) 1970-11-12

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