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Filling apparatus for a rotary tablet press

US8162650B2 · kind B2 · utility

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14Claims

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Assignee

FETTE GMBH · DE

Inventors

Harald Roemer · Reinbek, DE
Jan Naeve · Gudow, DE
Matthias Dederichs · Hamburg, DE
Wolfgang Soltau · Hitzacker (Elbe), DE
Ulrich Arndt · Lauenburg/Elbe, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 3, 2008
Grant date	Apr 24, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 27, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB30B11/08
WIPO fieldMachine tools
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A filling apparatus for a rotary tablet press, which itself being arranged stationarily is associated to a circulating die plate of a rotor of the tablet press, with a filling chamber, which features an upper inlet opening for powder-shaped compression material and a filling opening aligned with die bores of the die plate, and with a conveying means in the filling chamber driven by a drive motor, wherein the filling chamber is circular, one single disc-shaped filling wheel is rotatably mounted around a vertical axis in the filling chamber, which has plural wings on the perimeter, spaced apart in the perimeter direction, which sweep over the filling opening upon rotation of the filling wheel, and the inlet opening is arranged in a distance above the filling wheel, preferably approximately centered with the axis of the filling wheel.

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