Patents Assigned to Fette GmbH
  • Patent number: 7881058
    Abstract: A cooling system for a rotary tablet press with which a rotor is driven by an electrical drive motor and the rotor and drive motor are arranged in a closed housing, and a control cabinet for the drive motor and further units in the housing, wherein arranged within the housing is a cooling machine whose evaporator is part of a first heat exchanger, whose other part is arranged in a coolant circuit for the drive motor, a fan is arranged in a channel in the housing closed relative to the housing interior, where the fan draws cool air in via an air inlet of the housing and gives it off via an air outlet of the housing, wherein the cool air is engaged in heat exchange with a condenser of the cooling machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Römer, Ingo Schmidt, Werner Seifert, Peter Lüneburg
  • Patent number: 7824170
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotary tablet press, which has an upper and a lower punch guide for upper and lower punches that interact with holes in a die plate that is arranged between the upper and lower punch guide, where the punches are axially movable in guide holes of the punch guides and have heads that interact with compression rollers of the tablet press, wherein the press punches are guided axially in the guide holes secure against rotation, and the punch heads have on opposite sides flat areas that are facing the adjacent punch heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Meissner, Wolfgang Soltau
  • Publication number: 20100251909
    Abstract: A pressing station in a rotary press having a bearing component for a compression roll that can be adjusted vertically in height along a guide attached to the frame of the rotary press, a first adjustment drive fastened to the frame, which is coupled via an adjustment drive to the bearing component for height adjustment of the bearing component, wherein a shaft or axle for the compression roll or the bearing component or a part of these is coupled to a second adjustment drive in such a way that the compression roll can be adjusted in its height independently from the first adjustment drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Luedemann, Kurt Marquardt, Jan Naeve
  • Patent number: 7803294
    Abstract: Method for determining a reference for a powder press, which comprises a die plate for attaching a die and an upper adaptor plate which may be actuated by a drive which is hydraulic, mechanical, electric or the like for attaching an upper punch, a lower adaptor plate which may be actuated by a hydraulic drive for attaching a lower punch or the die plate and at least one distance measuring system for the upper and lower punch and/or the die plate with the following steps: a reference die and at least one reference punch are made, the reference die is attached to the die plate, by an optical measuring device usefully arranged on a base plate and/or die plate, the position of the upper edge of the reference die is measured and the position value stored, the reference die is removed, the adaptor plate with the reference punch previously attached therein, is moved in the direction of the die until the lower edge of the reference punch has reached the stored position of the upper edge of the reference die, the sum
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Pannewitz, Martin Plucinski, Andreas Groth, Andreas Teetzen
  • Patent number: 7799105
    Abstract: An apparatus for the elimination of dusts from gases, with a filter arrangement, which is flown through by a loaded volume flow, and a cyclone which is arranged upstream to the filter arrangement, wherein a collector funnel below the filter arrangement forms the cover of the cyclone, wherein a branch stub forming the dust outlet opening of the collector funnel forms the dip pipe of the cyclone and an outlet opening of the cyclone is connected to a dust collector tank arranged under it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Detlef Nuppenau, Gabriele Oelerich, Dieter Schmidt, Eugen Krüger, Regine Wrage, Harald Römer
  • Publication number: 20100229746
    Abstract: A method for dedusting a suction system for rotary presses, wherein the cleaning liquid is guided into the suction system, and wherein the suction system is closed in the region of the press room of the press, and at least a part of the suction system is flooded with cleaning liquid, and the cleaning liquid is subsequently drained into the press room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Luedemann, Hans Wolf
  • Patent number: 7749053
    Abstract: A device for generating a negative pressure in the sealed room of a tablet press and/or of an isolator, with a fan connected to the sealed room and an air opening towards the sealed room, wherein the intake side of an ejector is connected with the sealed room, the working fluid connection of which is connectable with a compressed air source via a valve, with a sensor which is connected to a negative pressure control unit which opens the valve when the sensor measures a pressure in the sealed room which is above a predetermined negative pressure value, a second valve being assigned to the fresh air inlet opening, which depending on the embodiment remains opened or is triggered and closed by the negative pressure control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Behns, Enrico Gand, Linda Heck, Ralf Zingler
  • Patent number: 7740140
    Abstract: A method for sorting tablets at a rotary press for making tablets, comprising the following steps: the individual tablets are monitored with regard to at least one property of their condition during the pressing process, and a bad-signal is generated, if a tablet does not fulfill the property, and tablets which do not generate a bad-signal being good-tablets; the good-tablets are directed from a die plate of the rotary press into a good-channel; after a bad-signal has been generated, a bad-tablet is directed into a bad-channel by means of an air blast; by means of a further air stream, which is directed into the bad-channel, the bad-tablet is accelerated into the bad-channel whereby a returning to the die plate is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Ingo Schmidt, Andreas Arning, Kai Hübner
  • Patent number: 7740468
    Abstract: A rotary press with a stand, a rotor rotatably mounted around a vertical axis in the stand and being driven, which has an upper and a lower compression punch accommodation for upper and lower punches which co-operate with bores of a die plate of the rotor, and upper and lower control cam elements which can be detachably fastened on a cam carrier of the stand and which guide heads of the compression punches by means of control cams during the rotation of the rotor, characterized in that at least one control cam element, guiding the compression punch heads radially outside or radially inside, can be detachably fastened on the carrier and can be moved radially away from the punch heads when the fastening means is detached, so far that by-passing the punch heads, it can be taken out parallel to the axis of the rotor, towards the upside or towards the bottom side, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Lueneburg, Matthias Dederichs, Ulrich Arndt
  • Patent number: 7726961
    Abstract: Press for producing dimensionally stable pressed parts from powdered material, with a press frame, a die holding plate, at least one upper punch holding plate, at least one lower punch holding plate, adjusting drives for the upper punch and lower punch holding plate and/or die holding plate, a vertical guide in the press frame for at least the upper and lower punch holding plate and a measuring device for measuring the position of the upper punch holding plate, the lower punch holding plate and/or the die holding plate. A single measuring rule is attached in its thermal fixed reference point to a support vertically uncoupled from the press frame, on which measurement slides cooperating with the holding plates are guided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Udo Baltruschat, Holger Behns, Carsten Jordt, Jan Naeve, Thomas Pannewitz, Martin Plucinski, Harald Romer
  • Patent number: 7713469
    Abstract: Device for monitoring the production of tablets in a rotary press, with die bores in a circular die plate for the accommodation of a powder to be pressed, upper- and lower stamps, a pressing station for pressing the powder in the die bores by means of the upper and lower stamps, a tablet stripper for stripping off the tablets ejected by the lower stamps from the upper side of the circular die plate and a machine computer, wherein a contactless working temperature measurement device, being in communication with the machine computer, with a measurement plane between the pressing station and the tablet stripper, is arranged in the press room of the rotary press, and the measurement time of the temperature measurement device is such that at least some of the tablets per rotation of the circular die plate can be established in their temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Ingo Schmidt, Werner Seifert
  • Publication number: 20100101394
    Abstract: A compression punch for a rotary press, with a punch shaft that has a punch head at its one end and means for accommodating a separate punch insert at the other end, and with fastening means for detachably fastening the punch insert on the punch shaft, wherein the punch head and the punch shaft have an axial through bore, the axial through bore accommodates a drawbar that has a tensioning head at the end turned away from the punch head, said tensioning head having at least one connection portion, the punch insert has a recess at the end facing the punch shaft which is realised to be detachably connectible with the connection portion, and that tensioning means are arranged in the axial through bore, by which the drawbar can be tensioned in the direction of the punch head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Malick, Friedrich Meissner
  • Publication number: 20100078841
    Abstract: A method for quality surveillance of powdered press material for a rotary press, in which the press material is fed from a reservoir via a preferably vertical feed channel to a filling device, which continuously fills dies of a rotor with press material wherein to the feed channel and/or the filling device is assigned a microwave resonator with an analysis unit, which measures the moisture and/or the density and/or the size of the granules of the press material, and at least one press variable of the microwave resonator is used for changing a control variable of the rotary press.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Herrmann, Udo Schlemm, Ingo Schmidt, Ulrich Arndt
  • Publication number: 20100059292
    Abstract: The invention is related to a method for testing multilayer tablets in a multiple rotary press, in which die holes of a circulating die plate are successively filled with tablet material of different layers in consecutive filling devices, and the tablet material is compressed layer after layer to pressed articles having n layers by means of synchronously circulating compression punches in compression stations respectively associated to the filling devices, and the pressed articles are subsequently ejected and unloaded in a unloading station, wherein in a testing procedure, pressed articles having in layers are unloaded in an unloading station after the compression and are fed to a testing station, wherein holds 1<=m<n.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Naeve, Stefan Luedemann
  • Patent number: 7665596
    Abstract: Apparatus for the outflow of pressed items from a rotary press, with a first channel section connecting directly to the rotary press, to which at least two channel sections are connected, to which a deflector is attached, which is swivel mounted at an axis almost vertical to the longitudinal extension of the first and/or second channel section and optionally connects the first channel section with one of the other channel sections and a pivot drive for the deflector below or above the channel sections, characterized in that a bearing pin for the deflector is connected in a torque-proof manner with a channel section and the swivel drive is coupled with the deflector via a magnetic coupling eccentric to the bearing pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Sven Kolbe, Ulrich Arndt
  • Publication number: 20100028478
    Abstract: A powder press, with a press frame, which comprises an upper and lower frame section, an upper linear drive attached to the upper frame section and a lower linear drive attached to the lower frame section, wherein the drives are connected to an upper and lower punch plate or a die table, respectively, wherein the punch plates have a clamping system for an upper or a lower punch, a die clamping system on a die table with a die, and at least one force measuring device for measuring the pressing force on at least one punch, characterized in that at least one force measuring device is disposed between a punch plate and the associated clamping system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Udo Baltruschat, Stephan Mallon, Harald Romer, Jan Naeve, Ingo Schmidt
  • Patent number: 7654814
    Abstract: Rotary press comprising a rotor rotatably driven about a vertical axis, said rotor exhibiting a die plate and upper and lower punches which are vertically guided in guides of the rotor working together with die holes in a die plate, at least one press station which exhibits an upper and a lower pressure passed by the punches and through which the punches are moved towards the die hole in order to compress the material in the die hole, characterized in that the rotor is provided with means which act upon compacts or parts thereof which adhere to the pressing surface or which means eliminate or prevent an adherence of a compact or parts thereof to the pressing surface of the upper punch, respectively, during the return stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Schikowski, Ingo Schmidt, Thorsten Ehrich, Helmut Bommrowitz
  • Patent number: 7648353
    Abstract: A visual monitoring device for rotary presses, in which a rotor, with upper and lower punches and a die plate, at least one compression station, at least one filling station, and at least one ejector station are arranged in a housing, at which individual process steps occur, characterized in that arranged in the housing is at least one high speed camera, whose lens is directed onto a location in the housing, and to which an image analysis device is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Meier, Ingo Schmidt, Peter Lueneburg
  • Patent number: 7641465
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotary tablet press, which has an upper and a lower punch guiding for upper and lower punches, which co-operate with bores of a die plate which is arranged between the upper and the lower punch guiding, wherein the punches have shafts, which are sealedly axially movable in guiding bores of the punch guidings by means of a sealing arrangement, and wherein means act between the shafts and the guiding bores which prevent a rotation of the pressing punches in the punch guidings, characterised in that the shafts have an out of round profile in the cross section, and the cross section of the guiding bores is complementary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Meissner, Wolfgang Soltau, Jan Naeve, Peter Lueneburg
  • Patent number: 7641466
    Abstract: A tablet press with a rotor, which is rotatably mounted in a stand of the tablet press and which has an upper punch accommodation for the upper punches and a lower punch accommodation for the lower punches of the tablet press, as well as a die plate with a series of die bores which are aligned with the upper and the lower punches, wherein the die plate consists of at least two ring segments which can be attached on the rotor by means of a fastening device, wherein clamping elements are arranged in axis parallel passages of the rotor spaced apart in the perimeter distance, which act against the ring segments from the bottom side and clamp against an abutment surface of the rotor, characterized in that at least one drive device for the clamping elements is arranged in the stand of the tablet press, with a coupling element adjustable in the height, which can be selectively set into engagement with the lower end of the clamping element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Malick, Wolfgang Soltau, Joerg Gaedecke, Matthias Rau