A rotary powder compression molding machine.

摘要

A rotary powder compression molding machine is provided which comprises a compression molding machine body having a horizontal turntable provided with a plurality of bores at a distance therebetween in the rotation direction, and means for compressing powder successively filled in each bore in the turntable for molding; a powder supply device having an open feed shoe adjacent to the upper surface of the turntable in the compression molding machine body, and means for dropping powder on an upstream side of the open feed shoe in the rotation direction of the turntable; and a detecting device having an ultrasonic sensor which is disposed so that an ultrasonic wave is reflected from a region of the upper surface of the turntable on which powder is dropped by the means for dropping powder of the powder supply device, and which detects the intensity of the reflected ultrasonic wave. <IMAGE>