摘要 |
The apparatus for orienting tablets on a measuring station of a tablet tester comprises: a preferably horizontal transfer table, two rollers provided in the support plane of the transfer table and arranged parallel side by side, the upper generators of the rollers being flush with said support surface or projecting slightly beyond it, and a drive device which, on operation of the apparatus, drives the two rollers in opposite directions so that the left roller is rotated clockwise and the right roller counterclockwise, so that a test tablet transferred onto the two rollers is automatically oriented according to the axes of the two rollers. The apparatus according to the invention and the tablet tester according to the invention have different advantages in comparison with the prior art. Thus, the invention has the advantage that, without the use of horizontal orientation elements, the test tablets are oriented absolutely accurately and automatically along their own body length axis as soon as they come to rest on the pair of rollers of the apparatus according to the invention and that, owing to the lack of moveable mechanical elements, the horizontal rollers serving for orientation are not very susceptible to faults.
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