| 摘要 |
<p>An object is to provide a tablet manufacturing method which may restrain formation of a tablet edge surface and permits less effect of intra-tablet stress developed in process of press-forming on a tablet quality in cases where an upper rod and a lower rod are fittingly inserted into a vertical hole formed in a die to press powder in the die hole with a pushing surface at the lower end of the upper rod and a pushing surface at the upper end of the lower rod in order to press-form a tablet. Disclosed is a tablet manufacturing method in which an upper rod 3 and a lower rod 4 are fittingly inserted into a vertical hole 2 formed in a die 1 to press powder 5 in the die hole 2 with a pushing surface 9a at the lower end of the upper rod 3 and a pushing surface 11a at the upper end of the lower rod 4 in order to press-form a tablet 6, characterized in that concave forming grooves 2a integrally linked to the upper and lower pushing surfaces 9a and 11a are formed annularly in the inner circumferential surface of the die hole 2, and the die may be divided into an upper separable piece 7 and a lower separable piece 8 at the bottom portions of the forming grooves 2a, wherein after a final fixed rod or one of the upper and lower rods 3 and 4 is moved to and then fixed at a press-forming position at which the pushing surface 9a or 11a is integrally linked to the corresponding forming groove 2a, a final pressing rod or the other rod 3 or 4 is moved to the press-forming position so that the tablet 6 of a circular, elliptical or oval form as viewed in cross sectional side is press-formed, and then, the press-formed tablet 6 held in the forming grooves 2a is taken out of the die by separating the upper and lower separable pieces 7 and 8, in which case, the tablet 6 after being taken out of a final fixed separable piece or the separable piece 7 or 8 adjacent to the final fixed rod and also out of the final fixed rod is taken out of a final pressing separable piece or the separable piece 7 or 8 adjacent to the final pressing rod.</p> |
