Modular filling shoe for a rotary press

US11504934B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Korsch AG · DE

Inventors

• Ingo Klaer · Berlin, DE
• Stephan Mies · Berlin, DE
• Robert Peucker · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 24, 2018
• Grant date: Nov 22, 2022
• Expiry date: Jun 11, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B30B15/302
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to an impeller filling shoe for material feed to die bores of a rotary press, which is built-up modularly in order to enable a change in function between a 2-chamber filling shoe comprising a filling vaned wheel and a proportioning vaned wheel, and a 3-chamber filling shoe comprising a filling vaned wheel, a proportioning vaned wheel and a feeding vaned wheel, wherein the impeller filling shoe does not comprise a gearbox for driving the vaned wheels. Furthermore, the invention relates to a rotary press comprising the modular impeller filling shoe, whereby the gearbox for driving the vaned wheels is located outside the impeller filling shoe. The invention relates in addition to the use of the impeller filling shoe according to the invention in methods for converting the modular impeller filling shoe from a 2-chamber filling shoe to a 3-chamber filling shoe and vice versa. The functional conversion of the impeller filling shoe can take place both outside the tablet press as well as in the mounted state inside the tablet press.