Encapsulating apparatus

• US 3,015,128 A
• Filed: 08/18/1960
• Issued: 01/02/1962
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: George R. Somerville Jr
• Original Assignee: George R. Somerville Jr
• Inventors: Somerville, George R. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US04/050,508
• Time in Patent Office: 502 Days
• US Class Current: 425/5
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 3/07 into the form of capsules or similar small containers for oral use
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 264/37 Processes and molds for making capsules

Claims

1. CENTRIFUGAL ENCAPSULATING APPARATUS FOR ENCAPSULATING A FILLER MATERIAL IN AN ENCAPSULATING MEDIUM COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A ROTABLE CYLINDER HAVING A PLUTALITY OF SPACED-APART ENCAPSULATING ORIFICES;

MEANS FOR DELIVERING AN ENCAPSULATING MEDIUM TO SAID ENCAPSULATING ORIFICES FOR FORMING SUCCESSIVE FILMS THEREACROSS DURING ROTATION OF THE CYLINDER HAVING;

IMPELLING MEANS ROTATABLY MOUNTED IN SAID CYLINDER HAVING A SURFACE FOR IMPELLING A FILLER MATERIAL UNRESTRICTEDLY OUTWARDLY TO A PERIPHERY THEREOF AND FOR TRAJECTING PARTICLES OF SAID FILLER MATERIAL FROM RANDOM POINTS ABOUT SAID PERIPHERY OUTWARDLY TOWARD INDISCRIMATE ONES OF SAID ENCAPSULATING ORIFICES DURING ROTATION OF THE IMPELLING MEANS;

MEANS FOR DELIVERING A FILLER MATERIAL TO SAID SURFACE ON THE IMPELLING MEANS;

AND MEANS FOR ROTATING SAID CYLINDER AND SAID IMPELLING MEANS AT DESIRED SPEEDS.