Transpot unit for tablets

• US 4,660,713 A
• Filed: 09/09/1985
• Issued: 04/28/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Erweka GmbH
• Original Assignee: Erweka Apparatebau GmbH
• Inventors: Kaminski, Reiner
• Primary Examiner(s): Valenza, Joseph E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Holmes, Jonathan D.
• Application Number:
  US06/774,587
• Time in Patent Office: 596 Days
• Field of Search: 198/443, 198/398, 198/468.01, 198/468.11, 198/741, 198/453, 198/959
• US Class Current: 198/443
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 47/1492 the articles being fed from a feeding conveyor
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 17/00 Apparatus for or methods of weighing material of special form or property determining weight by measuring volume G01F
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/15 Medicinal preparations ; Physical properties thereof, e.g. dissolubility drug screening with animal cells G01N33/5008

Abstract

A transport unit for tablets transports the tablets fed from a filling unit through the use of a rake with at least one V-like fork on a horizontal guiding track to tablet testing stations, packaging units etc. The guiding track comprises on either side of the area swept by the point of the V-shaped fork openings through which may fall the tablets which are not at the point of the fork during the transport. The openings of the guiding track are connected by an inclined plane to a collector container.

Claims

1. A transport unit for transporting tablets fed to said transport unit by a filling unit, said transport unit comprising

a horizontal guiding track along which the tablets are to be transported to tablet testing stations, packing units, etc.,

a rake having a plurality of V-shaped forks, each of said forks having a tablet transporting point,

an operating means for operating said rake to transport the tablets on said horizontal guide track,

two openings in said horizontal guiding track which openings are situated on either side of the area of said horizontal guiding track swept by said points of said V-shaped forks, the minimum distance between said openings being dimensioned in a way that tablets disposed at said points of said V-shaped forks during transport are transported on said horizontal guiding track between said openings whereas tablets not disposed at said points of said V-shaped forks during transport fall through said openings.

2. A transport unit according to claim 1, wherein said opening increase in the transport direction of the tablets towards the center of said horizontal guiding track.

3. A transport unit according to claim 2, wherein said openings are made unsymmetrical.