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摘要

The present invention relates to a device for distributing tablet blanks to the dies of a tablet press. The present invention moreover relates to a system consisting of the device according to the invention and a tablet press and to a method for forming tablets from tablet blanks.

主权项

1. A method for forming tablets from tablet blanks (2), comprising the following steps:
conveying the blanks (2) horizontally towards a rotating disc (5), providing an accelerator (14) for moving the blanks (2) horizontally towards indentations (7) in the circumference of the rotating disc (5), accepting the blanks (2) in the indentations (7) in the rotating disc (5) in an entry zone (10), rotating the blanks (2) from the entry zone (10) to an exit zone (11) and transferring the blanks (2) to a rotating die (3) of a tablet press (4) in the exit zone (11), forming the blanks in the tablet press (4), wherein above each indentation (7) is arranged an ejector (9) suspended from a pivot pin with two flexible metal strips (16), and in the exit zone (11) is arranged a stationary ball bearing (17) that presses the ejector (9) downwards as soon as the ejector (9) rotates past the stationary ball bearing (17).