Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing seamless capsules is provided with a multiple nozzle which blows multilayer liquid drops into a hardening liquid. The hardening liquid flows through a main flow path and an auxiliary flow path. The flow of hardening liquid through the main flow path is biased in a direction intersecting the main flow path by a flow of hardening liquid into the main flow path from the auxiliary flow path or a discharge of the hardening liquid from the main flow path into the auxiliary flow path.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing seamless capsules, wherein multi-layer liquid flow is blown out of a multiple nozzle to form multi-layer droplets which are brought into contact with hardening liquid to be solidified to thereby manufacture the seamless capsules SC and an apparatus therefor. A groove having U-shaped section for supplying the hardening liquid and the multi-layer droplets is orientated in a direction tangent to a circular section of a hardening vessel in the hardening vessel and a helical flow is formed in the hardening liquid in the hardening vessel, whereby the multi-layer droplets are fallen, moving helically in the hardening vessel.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing seamless capsules having satisfactory multilayer liquid drops without deformation, wherein a multilayer liquid flow is blown out of a multiple nozzle to form multilayer liquid drops which are brought into contact with hardening liquid for manufacturing seamless capsules, and a nozzle moving device is connected to the multiple nozzle, whereby the multiple nozzle is movably adjustable by this nozzle moving device in a direction intersecting or preferably perpendicular to the flow of the hardening liquid in a flow path of the hardening liquid.

Abstract: A method of performing granulating, coating, drying of a powdry or granular material having a relatively minute particle diameter and an apparatus therefor. A nozzle for supplying the powdery or granular material and a nozzle for supplying a coating liquid are parallelly provided at adjacent positions where air streams dispersed from the both nozzles are not in contact with each other and directed to the interior of a processing cylinder. The two nozzles are connected to compressed air sources independently of each other. Drying air-stream blow-in openings are provided on the way from collision of the powdery or granular material and the coating material to catching thereof. Drying air streams are supplied from a direction tangent to the processing cylinder having a circular section.

Abstract: A granulating and coating method using the drying air streams to effectuate granulating, coating and drying and apparatus therefore wherein:a nozzle for supplying an article to be coated and another nozzle for supplying a coating material are provided at such positions that the article to be coated and the coating material collide with each other before the article to be coated and the coating material are dispersed by the drying air streams.

Abstract: A granulating and coating apparatus in which a rotary drum containing powdery or granular material is rotated about the substantially horizontal axis for granulating and/or coating the powdery or granular material. The apparatus is provided with a disk valve mechanism for switching a gas supply or exhaust path to the rotary drum on the operating side of the rotary drum. The rotary drum is provided inside of itself with a baffle means for stirring powdery or granular material and a baffle displacing means for displacing the baffle means. Inside of the rotary drum is provided a temperature sensor for directly measuring a temperature of powdery or granular material. The rotary drum is composed of porous polygonal. Each side of the polygonal drum includes an outer enclosure mounted thereon and individual detachable.

Abstract: A granulating and coating apparatus comprising a rotary drum to be charged therein a powdery or granular material, and a baffle plate provided in the rotary drum and not rotatable together with the rotary drum. The rotary drum is formed to be a polygonal shape. This polygonal shape may be, for example, a pentagon, a hexagon, an octagon or a decagon. The baffle plate may be positionally fixedly supported. Or, the baffle plate can be made to change a position in a rocking direction, a position of the rotary drum in the axial direction, a depth of insertion into a layer of a powdery or granular material or an angle of insertion by use of plurality of actuators.

Abstract: A powdery and granular material treating apparatus wherein a powdery or granular material is contained in a rotary drum and the rotary drum is rotated about a horizontal axis to thereby coat the powdery or granular material. Ventilating perforations are formed on the entire surface or portions of the outer periphery of the rotary drum and drying air is fed to or exhausted from the rotary drum through these ventilating perforations. This powdery and granular material treating apparatus includes: seal plates for sealing drying air fed into the rotary drum; circular sliding frames provided on the sides of the outer periphery of the rotary drum, the outer surfaces of said sliding frames being in sliding contact with the seal plates at portions, through which air is fed to or exhausted from the rotary drum; and partition plates provided on the side of the outer periphery of the rotary drum at positions spaced apart in the circumferential direction of the rotary drum from one another.

Abstract: A machine for use in granulation, coating, mixing, drying etc. of powdery or granular raw materials such as medicine or foods etc. The machine is comprised of a casing for containing raw materials, a rotator for tumbling and giving centrifugal force to the material in the casing rotatable horizontally in the casing and at least one disintegrator provided above the rotator for subdividing undesirously large particles. At least one agitator is provided above the rotator for agitating and kneading materials to be granulated or coated. The rotator is movable or fixed in vertical position, and an annular slit is formed between an annular slit forming ring or inner wall of the casing and outer periphery of the rotator. The slit forming ring is movable or fixed in vertical position. At least one ventilating portion is formed on at least one portion of the rotator, and a gas flow rate adjusting mechanism is provided for controlling flow rate of gas passed through the ventilating portion.

Abstract: A granulating and coating machine for use in granulation, coating, mixing, drying etc. of powdery or granular materials. The machine includes a casing for holding the powdery or granular raw materials, a rotator for performing granulation or coating arranged at the bottom of the casing and formed with at least one ventilating porition, an annular slit formed between the periphery of the rotator and the inner wall of the casing. A gas flow adjusting mechanism including two separated ducts for gas flow is provided in order to control independently the rate of gas fed through the ventilating portion and the slit gas fed through the slit. An agitator for agitating the powdery or granular materials and a disintegrator for breaking undesirously large particles of the powdery or granular materials may be provided above the rotator. The slit may be formed by an annular slit forming ring mounted on the inner wall of the casing.