WO2024228157A1 - Vorrichtung zum beschicken eines zuführsystem zur verpackung von medikamenten - Google Patents
Vorrichtung zum beschicken eines zuführsystem zur verpackung von medikamenten Download PDFInfo
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
- B65B5/00—Packaging individual articles in containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, jars
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- B65B5/103—Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles by gravity for packaging pills or tablets
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B25—HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS
- B25J—MANIPULATORS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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- B65B1/00—Packaging fluent solid material, e.g. powders, granular or loose fibrous material, loose masses of small articles, in individual containers or receptacles, e.g. bags, sacks, boxes, cartons, cans, or jars
- B65B1/04—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles
- B65B1/06—Methods of, or means for, filling the material into the containers or receptacles by gravity flow
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
- B65B37/00—Supplying or feeding fluent-solid, plastic, or liquid material, or loose masses of small articles, to be packaged
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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- B65B39/00—Nozzles, funnels or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers
- B65B39/001—Nozzles, funnels or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers with flow cut-off means, e.g. valves
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
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- B65B39/001—Nozzles, funnels or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers with flow cut-off means, e.g. valves
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- B65B39/005—Nozzles, funnels or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers with flow cut-off means, e.g. valves moving linearly transverse to flow direction
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
- B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
- B65B43/42—Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up state; Feeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging position; Locating containers or receptacles at the filling position; Supporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation
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- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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- the present invention relates to a device for feeding a supply system for packaging medicaments according to the preamble of claim 1.
- compositions such as pills, tablets, capsules and the like are often packaged in disposable packaging before being shipped to consumers.
- disposable packaging includes thermoformed and cold-formed blister packs as well as pouches, bags or disposable bottles.
- An important aspect in the manufacture of these packages is the placement of the pills in the blister packs before a sealing film layer is applied.
- This process is preferably carried out by an automatic machine capable of placing the pills precisely and accurately at high speed.
- a blister packaging machine is known, for example, from the document US 5,737,902.
- the feed system described therein comprises a feed cassette with a number of tubes and a chute arrangement with several chutes for guiding individual pills into the corresponding container. Above the feed cassette is an orientation plate which guides the tablets into the feed cassette, which in turn guides the tablets into the chutes.
- the orientation plate closes off a funnel, which is arranged above the feed cassette of the feed system, towards the tubes.
- the funnel filled with tablets to be packaged performs an up and down movement, to separate and orient the tablets into the tubes so that these tablets can be fed sequentially through the tubes to the drop shafts and a simultaneous and precise filling from all drop shafts into the corresponding tablet cavities of blister packs can take place. This is because only if all tablet cavities of a blister pack each contain one tablet can this blister pack be used for sale.
- the essence of the present invention for the device for feeding a feed system for packaging medication with a feed system with a feed box is that this device for feeding comprises a three-dimensional robot with a feed container arranged on it, wherein this feed container can be filled by means of the robot at a filling station and emptied via the feed system.
- the feed system can thus be filled or emptied in a simple manner and with a high degree of flexibility. Conversion due to changed conditions is also possible quickly and easily using the device according to the invention.
- the robot is arranged in a stationary manner between the filling station and the feeding system; in this case, for conversion in the event of changed packaging conditions, the robot can remain in place and the filling station and/or the feeding system are adapted to the changed packaging conditions.
- the robot is arranged so as to be movable between the filling station and the feed system; whereby this robot can be easily moved to its respective place of use.
- the feed container and the filling station each have a closure slide which can be opened or closed for the purpose of filling or emptying the feed container.
- the feed system advantageously also comprises a closure slide and the two closure slides of the feed container and the feed system are arranged so that they can be moved relative to one another for the purpose of filling the feed system and are thus openable or closed.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a delivery system for medication which is shown in the introduction by means of a device according to the invention for feeding such a delivery system, not yet shown here;
- Fig. 2 shows the device according to the invention for feeding a feeding system by means of a three-dimensional robot
- Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the device according to the invention with a feed container which can be filled by means of the three-dimensional robot at a filling station;
- Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the device according to the invention with the loading container on a feeding system, which also;
- Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the device according to the invention with the feed container directly above the feed system;
- Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the device according to the invention with the feed container in an inclined position directly above the feed system;
- Fig. 7a-c a sectional view of the device according to the invention with a feed container at the filling station according to Fig. 3, wherein respective closure slides of the feed container and the filling station are simultaneously opened in opposite directions for the purpose of filling the feed container - sequence of Fig. 7a to Fig. 7c - or closed - sequence of Fig. 7c to Fig. 7a.
- FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a feeding system 1, with which tablets, pills or capsules - not explicitly shown here - are fed via a funnel 7 for receiving the same and a Feed box 2 with a downstream chute arrangement 8 in -also not shown- packaging can be introduced.
- a funnel 7 that is open at the top, the tablets, pills or capsules can be introduced into this and fed by means of tubes 9 leading from it to the feed box 2, which comprises pin plates for the purpose of separating individual tablets, pills or capsules.
- Fig. 2 shows the device according to the invention for feeding the feed system 1 shown in more detail in Fig. 1, wherein this device for feeding the feed system 1 with tablets, pills or capsules comprises a three-dimensional robot 3 with a feed container 4 arranged on this robot 3, and wherein this feed container 4 can be filled by means of the robot 3 at a filling station 5 and can be emptied via the feed system 1.
- Fig. 3 shows the robot 3 in a position in which the feed container 4 can be brought into an operative connection with the filling station 5.
- closure slides 6b and 6a can be provided on the feed container 4 and the filling station 5, respectively, which are either opened or closed in the event of an incident.
- the robot 3 feeds the feed container 4 to the filling station 5 in such a way that the feed container 4 can be filled with tablets, pills or capsules (not explicitly shown here).
- Fig. 4 now shows, in a subsequent position, the robot 3 which feeds the feed container 4 to the feed system 1.
- the closure slide 6b on the feed container 4 and a closure slide 6c on the feed system 1 are opened simultaneously in order to feed the contents of the feed container 4, namely tablets, pills or capsules, to the feed system 1.
- both the feed system 1, the feed container 4 and the filling station 5 are each equipped with the closure slide 6a, b, c, since both the filling of the feed container 4 at the filling station 5 and the emptying of the feed container 4 at the feed system 1 can thus take place essentially in a closed manner, i.e. neither bulk material - such as tablets, pills or capsules - nor the associated bulk material dust escape during filling or emptying.
- the present device according to the invention for feeding the feed system enables a particularly clean and simple filling option.
- Fig. 5 shows an embodiment of the invention in which only the feed container 4 comprises the closure slide 6b, wherein the feed container 4 can be emptied by means of the robot 3 via the open hopper 7 of the feed system 1 by actuating this closure slide 6b.
- neither the feed container 4 nor the feed system 1 has the closure slide and the robot 3 guides the feed container 4 over the hopper 7 of the feed system for the purpose of pouring.
- Fig. 7a to 7c show in chronological order how the closure slide 6a of the filling station 5 and the closure slide 6b of the feed container 4 are brought into mutual engagement for parallel operation.
- the robot 3 is used to guide the two closure slides 6a, 6b at their respective edges to one another in such a way that they open simultaneously with the corresponding movement of the robot 3 or close simultaneously when separated.
- Fig. 7a shows the feed container 4, which was fed to the filling station 5 by the robot 3, in such a way that the lateral edges of the two closure slides 6a, b abut one another.
- Fig. 7b shows a slightly open position of the two closure slides 6a, b, into which the robot 3 has brought these closure slides 6a, b.
- the two closure slides 6a, b are shown fully open in Fig. 7c.
- the feed container 4 can be filled with tablets, pills or capsules from the filling station 5.
- the emptying of the feed container 4 can also take place at the feed system - as shown in Fig. 4 -, whereby the closure slides 6b and 6c can then be brought into a corresponding operative connection with one another by means of the robot. list of reference symbols
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| DE447712C (de) * | 1925-05-15 | 1927-08-01 | Nathan Milton Fegely | Ventilsackfuellmaschine |
| DE584956C (de) * | 1929-04-26 | 1933-10-04 | Johannes Gravenholdt Dipl Ing | Sackfuellmaschine mit Staubabsaugung |
| DE2810244A1 (de) * | 1978-03-09 | 1979-09-13 | Franz Hoffmann & Soehne Kg Che | Verfahren und vorrichtung zum abfuellen von hochvoluminoesen pulverfoermigen stoffen in staubdichte behaelter |
| DE3921762A1 (de) * | 1989-05-10 | 1990-11-15 | Heitkamp Umwelttechnik Gmbh | Vorrichtung zum abfuellen kontaminierter haufwerke im transportbehaelter |
| US5737902A (en) | 1996-09-19 | 1998-04-14 | Aylward Enterprises, Inc. | Apparatus and method for packaging pills |
| DE202010018098U1 (de) * | 2010-09-20 | 2014-02-04 | Inteco Special Melting Technologies Gmbh | Chargierschacht-System |
| EP2620755B1 (de) * | 2012-01-26 | 2014-09-17 | Mettler-Toledo AG | Dosiervorrichtung für fliessfähige Substanzen |
| WO2015141660A1 (ja) * | 2014-03-18 | 2015-09-24 | 株式会社湯山製作所 | 薬剤払出し装置 |
| US20220388702A1 (en) * | 2019-09-05 | 2022-12-08 | Skan Ag | System Comprising Containment Equipment for the Aseptic Transfer of a Powder |
| US20230020340A1 (en) * | 2021-06-22 | 2023-01-19 | Vmi Holland B.V. | Method, computer program product and dispensing device for dispensing discrete medicaments |
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| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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| DE447712C (de) * | 1925-05-15 | 1927-08-01 | Nathan Milton Fegely | Ventilsackfuellmaschine |
| DE584956C (de) * | 1929-04-26 | 1933-10-04 | Johannes Gravenholdt Dipl Ing | Sackfuellmaschine mit Staubabsaugung |
| DE2810244A1 (de) * | 1978-03-09 | 1979-09-13 | Franz Hoffmann & Soehne Kg Che | Verfahren und vorrichtung zum abfuellen von hochvoluminoesen pulverfoermigen stoffen in staubdichte behaelter |
| DE3921762A1 (de) * | 1989-05-10 | 1990-11-15 | Heitkamp Umwelttechnik Gmbh | Vorrichtung zum abfuellen kontaminierter haufwerke im transportbehaelter |
| US5737902A (en) | 1996-09-19 | 1998-04-14 | Aylward Enterprises, Inc. | Apparatus and method for packaging pills |
| DE202010018098U1 (de) * | 2010-09-20 | 2014-02-04 | Inteco Special Melting Technologies Gmbh | Chargierschacht-System |
| EP2620755B1 (de) * | 2012-01-26 | 2014-09-17 | Mettler-Toledo AG | Dosiervorrichtung für fliessfähige Substanzen |
| WO2015141660A1 (ja) * | 2014-03-18 | 2015-09-24 | 株式会社湯山製作所 | 薬剤払出し装置 |
| US20220388702A1 (en) * | 2019-09-05 | 2022-12-08 | Skan Ag | System Comprising Containment Equipment for the Aseptic Transfer of a Powder |
| US20230020340A1 (en) * | 2021-06-22 | 2023-01-19 | Vmi Holland B.V. | Method, computer program product and dispensing device for dispensing discrete medicaments |
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