Rotary tablet press

US6361305B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Wilhelm Fette GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Jurgen Hinzpeter · Schwarzenbek, DE
• Ulrich Zeuschner · Schwarzenbek, DE
• Hans-Joachim Pierags · Lübeck, DE
• Nils Petersen · Lauenburg/Elbe, DE
• Peter Luneburg · Ratzeburg, DE
• Elke Wittenberg · Schwarzenbek, DE
• Ulrich Arndt · Lauenburg/Elbe, DE
• Hans Wolf · Schwarzenbek, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 18, 2000
• Grant date: Mar 26, 2002
• Expiry date: Apr 18, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B30B15/026
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A rotary tablet press, with a die plate rotatably mounted in a housing, which comprises guides for the upper and lower punch, whose position is controlled by cam disks rigid with the housing, and with an upright drive shaft which is arranged below the die plate and which can be releasably coupled to the die plate, wherein the die plate is formed such that after releasing from the drive shaft and a slight raising it may be moved out laterally, wherein at the ends, facing one another, of the die plate and drive shaft there is provided a quick locking whose parts are arranged in cavities of the die plate and drive shaft and which may be actuated by an actuation rod which is movably mounted in an axial channel of the drive shaft and is actuatable by an actuation device for the selective tensioning or releasing of the die plate and drive shaft.