Individual sorting device for sorting tablets, system with such an individual sorting device and with a tableting device, and method for checking an individual sorting device

US9950347B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Korsch AG · DE

Inventors

• Walter Hegel · Berlin, DE
• Arno Rathmann · Bernau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 29, 2014
• Grant date: Apr 24, 2018
• Expiry date: Jan 29, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07C3/143
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to an individual sorting device (10) for sorting tablets which have been pressed by a tableting machine using press punches. The individual sorting device (10) comprises a tablet feed (20), a pressing force signal input (30) for receiving pressing force signals which can be assigned to the fed tablets, a programmable control unit (40), and a storage unit (50). The individual sorting device (10) is suitable for separating tablets to which an unacceptable pressing force signal can be assigned, said unacceptable pressing force signal lying outside of an accepted pressing force range, from tablets to which an acceptable pressing force signal can be assigned, said acceptable pressing force signal lying within the accepted pressing force range. A test control program is stored in the storage unit (50) for programming the control unit (40) for a test operation of the individual sorting device (10), and during the test operation, the test control program includes the offset application of pressing force signals which can be assigned to tablets that have been pressed by at least one of the pressing punches of the tableting machine. The invention further relates to a sy…