Abstract: A capsule sealing apparatus is provided which includes a capsule supplying device, a slat, a capsule conveyor unit, a capsule sealing device, a plurality of capsule retaining plates, a drying device, and a capsule discharging device. The capsule supplying device intermittently supplies a prescribed number of capsules at a time. The slat includes a plurality of capsule resting slits for individually accommodating the capsules. The capsule conveyor unit linearly reciprocates the slat, during which the capsules are individually accommodated in respective capsule resting slits. The capsule sealing device coats the seams of the capsules with a sealing liquid through the openings at the bottoms of the slits in the slat. The capsule retaining plates receives all the capsules thereon. The drying device vertically circulates the capsule retaining plate with the charged capsules thereon in the horizontal posture so as to dry the sealing liquid applied on each capsule.

Abstract: A capsule filling apparatus which fills capsules with tablets having the same cylindrical shape as the capsules, wherein each tablet is fed from a hopper in an upright posture and wherein the filling of tablets into the capsules is secured by detecting a pressure varying depending on the presence of tablets in delivering holes.

Abstract: A capsule sealing apparatus which includes a capsule conveyor device with horizontally maintained slats on which capsules are mounted horizontally throughout the travel, during which the seams between the caps and bodies of the capsules are sealed by rotary coating discs that pick up the sealer from a tank disposed below the capsule conveyor device.

Abstract: A capsule charging apparatus for charging a hard gelatin capsule with a filling of powder, granule, or liquid continuously at every constant amount, in which operation processes such as receiving, holding, separating, charging with the filling, recoupling, and ejecting of the capsule are performed in order during one rotation of a turntable at plural positions defined by a predetermined rotation angle by which the turntable intermittently rotates, the turntable comprising a pair of rotary members disposed opposite to each other with a fixed space therebetween in the vertical direction of a vertical shaft, and between the upper and lower rotary members being interposed capsule guide members for connecting cap containing pockets with corresponding body containing pockets of the rotary members in order to separate the capsule into the cap and body and recouple them.

Abstract: A capsule charging apparatus that is a capsule conveying device disposed on a stand internally provided with at least one driving unit and a capsule charging device including at least one charging unit disposed on a stand which is detachably attached to the side of the stand of said capsule conveying device, said capsule conveying device arranging a plurality of capsules in which body portion are fitted into cap portions substantially vertically with their cap portions uppermost and their body portions below the cap portions; separating the capsules into the cap portions and the body portions; moving the separated cap portions and body portions in the horizontal direction; and fitting together the body portions and the cap portions again and said charging unit being driven by the driving unit inside the stand of said capsule conveying device.

Abstract: In a system for filling granular material into hard gelatin capsule wherein the granular material is portioned to a predetermined quantity by volume in a metering chamber and the portioned granular material mostly gravitates to a body of the hard gelatin capsule positioned beneath the metering chamber, an artificial force is exerted by a pusher rod on the granular material remaining in the metering chamber after the beginning of the gravitation. There also is an improved system for adjusting the capacity of the metering chamber. The improvements result in a greatly increased number of capsules which may be handled and filled at a time, a reduction in time required for the process and correspondingly in area occupied by the machine, and a remarkable improvement in the productivity. The uniformity and accuracy in the quantity of the granular material actually filled in the capsule are also remarkably improved.

Abstract: A metering operation in a capsule filling machine is controlled based on a correction signal derived from capsules just filled with material and ejected therefrom, by sampling/weighing these capsules, and by processing the weighed value to generate correction signal wherein: a first step of sampling/weighing is performed at the start-up stage of the capsule filling machine by collectively weighing a plurality of capsules sampled in bulk at once, and the second step of sampling/weighing is performed in subsequent steady operation stage by individual weighing each capsule from the bulk one by one.An apparatus for performing the method has a sampling chute bifurcated in alternatively switchable two paths; i.e., a direct path and a controlled path, which share a common terminal i.e., a scale pan of a balance.

Abstract: A capsule filling machine comprising a turntable supported for intermittent rotation about a vertical shaft. The turntable when at one work station receives in top-capped posture empty capsules each comprising an empty cup body having a cap body mounted thereon in telescopic fashion. The turntable is passed during one complete rotation through a plurality of work stations, at which the separation of the cap body from the cup body, the filling of a material into the cup body, the mounting of the cap body on the filled cup body to provide a filled capsule, and the ejection of the filled capsule are successively and sequentially performed. The empty capsule and the cap body, separated from the associated cup body, are conveyed along a horizontal circumferential path whereas the cup body in a region of separation is conveyed along a modified path including a side way extending outwardly and downwardly with respect to the horizontal circumferential path.

Abstract: A capsule sealing machine comprising a rectifying unit for rectifying closed capsules, which have been supplied from a hopper, so as to assume a predetermined posture, a conveyance unit for conveying from a transfer station, at which the rectified capsules are successively transferred thereto, towards a delivery station, a liquid binder applicator for applying a liquid binder, for example, gelatin solution, to the overlapping joint area between the cap and the body of each of the capsules to provide a tamper-resistant seal, and a drying unit for drying the applied liquid binder.

Abstract: An apparatus for filling viscous substances into hard gelatin capsules, while heating and stirring the viscous substances to be filled. The apparatus is entirely simplified in construction, reliable in operation and inexpensive. The apparatus includes a hopper, a pumping mechanism and a capsule body loading board being operatively connected with respect to each other. A reciprocating feed mechanism transfers the capsule body loading board from a preliminary operating station to a filling station. An intermittent rotary mechanism sequentially aligns accommodating holes in the capsule body loading board with a filling nozzle for dispensing the viscous substance into the gelatin capsules.

Abstract: A capsule orientation control method and an apparatus for effecting the method are disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving and holding the capsules from a supply hopper in such a manner that the axes of the capsules are aligned with the radial direction of a rotary drum and that it can be visually and spatially identified whether the capsules are stably held in capsule accommodating pockets with the caps thereof radially outwardly orientated in an erect posture or radially inwardly orientated in an inverted posture through action of rotary brush means rotatably provided in a position adjacent to a portion of the rotary drum where the capsules are received onto the rotary drum from the supply hopper, and causing the capsules in the inverted posture to fall down within the capsule accommodating pockets in a predetermined direction so as to align positions of the caps thereof with positions of the caps of the capsules in the erect posture before removing the capsules.