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Device and method for monitoring the production of tablets in a rotary press

US7713469B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

FETTE GMBH · DE

Inventors

Ingo Schmidt · Schwarzenbek, DE
Werner Seifert · Bargteheide, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 17, 2007
Grant date	May 11, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 8, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB29C2043/5816
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Device for monitoring the production of tablets in a rotary press, with die bores in a circular die plate for the accommodation of a powder to be pressed, upper- and lower stamps, a pressing station for pressing the powder in the die bores by means of the upper and lower stamps, a tablet stripper for stripping off the tablets ejected by the lower stamps from the upper side of the circular die plate and a machine computer, wherein a contactless working temperature measurement device, being in communication with the machine computer, with a measurement plane between the pressing station and the tablet stripper, is arranged in the press room of the rotary press, and the measurement time of the temperature measurement device is such that at least some of the tablets per rotation of the circular die plate can be established in their temperature.

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