Patents by Inventor Ernesto Gamberini

Ernesto Gamberini has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20200383870
    Abstract: A continuous rotary machine for filling capsules with pharmaceutical or nutraceutical products is provided with a hopper to contain a pharmaceutical or nutraceutical product in powder delimited by a bottom wall having a plurality of dosing chambers, each of which is fed along a ring-shaped path, and cooperates with a compacting piston movable along the dosing chamber in order to compact the product along a first segment of the ring-shaped path and to discharge only part of the product inside a corresponding capsule along a second segment of the ring-shaped path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventor: Ernesto GAMBERINI
  • Publication number: 20200375848
    Abstract: An apparatus to fill and package capsules in bottles is provided with a dosing line having a dosing unit to feed at least one pharmaceutical or nutraceutical product into the capsules, a pocket conveyor to move the capsules through the dosing unit, and an output station to release the capsules containing the pharmaceutical or nutraceutical product from the pocket conveyor, and a packaging line having a conveyor device to move, in succession, the bottles through a packaging station connected to the output station so as to receive each capsule released by the pocket conveyor and feed it into a respective bottle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Ernesto GAMBERINI, Sergio CICOGNANI
  • Publication number: 20200113786
    Abstract: An intermittent rotary machine for filling capsules with pharmaceutical or nutraceutical products is provided with a dosing disc, which delimits a hopper at the bottom for containing a pharmaceutical or nutraceutical powder product and has at least a group of dosing chambers, which are fed first of all through at least one compacting station, in the area of which the product contained in each dosing chamber is compacted by a respective compacting piston, and then through an expulsion station, in the area of which only part of the product contained in each dosing chamber is discharged into a respective capsule by a respective expelling piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Ernesto GAMBERINI, DAVIDE NANNETTI
  • Patent number: 10456331
    Abstract: A feeding assembly to fill capsules with granules, in particular microgranules, has a filling drum, which is provided with a plurality of fillers, each defined by a respective suction pipe, which can be connected to a pneumatic sucking device and has a lower end to pick up/release the granules; the lower end of each suction pipe being closed by a closing element provided with a plurality of openings, each designed so as to prevent the granules from getting into the suction pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: MG 2-S.R.L.
    Inventor: Ernesto Gamberini
  • Publication number: 20190029922
    Abstract: A measuring device for a capsule filler machine for pharmaceutical capsules comprising at least one block, provided with a plurality of seats, suitable to house a plurality of bottoms of capsules to be filled is provided. The block is provided with capacitive electronic devices, which are suited to detect parameters concerning the tare of each bottom, parameters concerning the quantities and the types of the products inserted into each bottom, and parameters concerning the filling/emptying of the seats, so as to control, in particular, the filling steps carried out to fill the capsule bottoms with the products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Antonio TAGLIAVINI, Ernesto GAMBERINI
  • Patent number: 10023332
    Abstract: A continuous rotary machine for filling capsules with pharmaceutical products is provided with at least one dosing wheel having a plurality of pockets each defined by a respective upper seat, which is suited to receive and hold a closing cap of a capsule and by a respective lower seat, which is suited to receive and hold a bottom of the capsule, and is provided with a measuring device to measure the weight of the bottom or of the bottom and of the pharmaceutical product contained in the lower seat itself; the upper seat being radially mobile between a forward position, in which the lower and the upper seats are vertically aligned with each other, and a retracted position, in which the lower and the upper seats are vertically staggered with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: MG2-S.R.L.
    Inventors: Ernesto Gamberini, Davide Nannetti
  • Publication number: 20170312179
    Abstract: A feeding assembly to fill capsules with granules, in particular microgranules, has a filling drum, which is provided with a plurality of fillers, each defined by a respective suction pipe, which can be connected to a pneumatic sucking device and has a lower end to pick up/release the granules; the lower end of each suction pipe being closed by a closing element provided with a plurality of openings, each designed so as to prevent the granules from getting into the suction pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventor: ERNESTO GAMBERINI
  • Patent number: 9523605
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for weighing pharmaceutical product capsules, whereby a capsule containing a pharmaceutical product is fed into a pocket to allow a measuring device to determine the weight of the pharmaceutical product and of a first portion of the capsule containing the pharmaceutical product; the pocket, and therefore the capsule, then being inverted to move the pharmaceutical product out of the first portion and into a second portion of the capsule, to allow the measuring device to determine the weight of the first portion only of the capsule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: MG 2—S.R.L.
    Inventor: Ernesto Gamberini
  • Patent number: 9089473
    Abstract: A feeding assembly for metering tablets into capsules is provided, wherein a given number of tablets are first loaded into relative metering holes in a dispenser plate mounted to rotate about a longitudinal axis tilted with respect to a vertical direction, and are then unloaded into the bottom shell of a capsule from a feed channel formed through a vibrating feed disk mounted to rotate about a substantially vertical longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: MG 2- S.R.L.
    Inventors: Davide Frabetti, Ernesto Gamberini
  • Publication number: 20150034397
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for weighing pharmaceutical product capsules, whereby a capsule containing a pharmaceutical product is fed into a pocket to allow a measuring device to determine the weight of the pharmaceutical product and of a first portion of the capsule containing the pharmaceutical product; the pocket, and therefore the capsule, then being inverted to move the pharmaceutical product out of the first portion and into a second portion of the capsule, to allow the measuring device to determine the weight of the first portion only of the capsule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Ernesto GAMBERINI
  • Publication number: 20140311104
    Abstract: A continuous rotary machine for filling capsules with pharmaceutical products is provided with at least one dosing wheel having a plurality of pockets each defined by a respective upper seat, which is suited to receive and hold a closing cap of a capsule and by a respective lower seat, which is suited to receive and hold a bottom of the capsule, and is provided with a measuring device to measure the weight of the bottom or of the bottom and of the pharmaceutical product contained in the lower seat itself; the upper seat being radially mobile between a forward position, in which the lower and the upper seats are vertically aligned with each other, and a retracted position, in which the lower and the upper seats are vertically staggered with respect to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: MG 2-S.r.l.
    Inventors: Ernesto Gamberini, Davide Nannetti
  • Patent number: 8794273
    Abstract: An intermittent rotating machine for filling capsules with pharmaceutical products is provided. The machine consists of a conveying wheel having a group of pockets distributed according to at least two mutually parallel rows and a feeding device for feeding a capsule into each pocket. The feeding device has a hopper for containing the capsules, at least two rows of extraction channels of the capsules from the hopper, and a plurality of orienting channels adapted to transfer each capsule from the respective extraction channel to the relative pocket. Each oriental channel is provided with at least two respective inlet portions, which are aligned to two extraction channels of two different rows, and are limited by respective bottom walls that are mutually parallel and distinct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: M G 2-S.R.L.
    Inventors: Angelo Ansaloni, Ernesto Gamberini
  • Patent number: 8627640
    Abstract: In an intermittent rotating machine for filling capsules with pharmaceutical products, each capsule is opened in a respective pocket of a conveying wheel, is filled with a pharmaceutical product, is closed and is finally released from the pocket itself; a supporting block fitted above the conveying wheel defining an upper stopping device for stopping the capsules during the closing thereof, and further defining an upper diverting device for moving the capsules outside the conveying wheel, and supporting a sucking pneumatic device for cleaning the pockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: MG 2 S.r.l
    Inventors: Angelo Ansaloni, Ernesto Gamberini
  • Patent number: 8616410
    Abstract: Apparatus for dosing powdery or granulated materials in capsules, or the like. The apparatus comprises an engine associated with a transducer controlling chuting means. The engine imparts to the chuting means movements which are proportional to an electric signal controlled by an electronic control unit. The movements of the chuting means, together with the regulation of the spatial position assumed by the chuting means, are such to accurately dose the powdery or granulated material in the bases of the capsules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: MG2—S.r.l.
    Inventors: Angelo Ansaloni, Ernesto Gamberini, Antonio Tagliavini
  • Patent number: 8464765
    Abstract: A machine for filling bottles with solid forms of pharmaceutical products is provided with a conveying device for continuously moving forward a sequence of bottles along a given path, and a vibrating distribution plate, which is mounted along the path itself so as to continuously rotate around its own longitudinal axis, and has a plurality of feeding channels, each of which is wound in a helix around and along said longitudinal axis, and is moved forward in phase with a corresponding bottle to feed a given number of solid forms in the bottle itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: MG 2-S.R.L.
    Inventors: Angelo Ansaloni, Ernesto Gamberini
  • Patent number: 8359815
    Abstract: In a machine for filling capsules with pharmaceutical products, the bottom of each capsule is moved forward along a path determined in phase with a dosing device, which transfers the pharmaceutical product from a tank to the bottom, and has a cylinder, a piston engaged in the cylinder, a spring interposed between the cylinder and the piston for normally maintaining the piston in contact with a stopping element, and a tappet carried by the cylinder, engaged in a cam, and adapted to move the cylinder and the piston with respective mutually identical laws of motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: MG 2—S.R.L.
    Inventors: Angelo Ansaloni, Ernesto Gamberini
  • Patent number: 8333052
    Abstract: In a machine for filling capsules, each of which defined by a bottom and a cap, with pharmaceutical products, the bottoms and the caps of the capsules are moved forward in sequence about a plurality of wheels provided with at least two actuating members movable under the control of respective tappets engaged in respective cams to open and close the capsules themselves, respectively; the cams being obtained on the outer surface of a drum mounted to rotate about a rotation axis parallel to the rotation axes of the wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: MG 2- S.R.L.
    Inventors: Angelo Ansaloni, Ernesto Gamberini
  • Publication number: 20120305133
    Abstract: A machine for filling bottles with solid forms of pharmaceutical products is provided with a conveying device for continuously moving forward a sequence of bottles along a given path, and a vibrating distribution plate, which is mounted along the path itself so as to continuously rotate around its own longitudinal axis, and has a plurality of feeding channels, each of which is wound in a helix around and along said longitudinal axis, and is moved forward in phase with a corresponding bottle to feed a given number of solid forms in the bottle itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Angelo ANSALONI, Ernesto Gamberini
  • Publication number: 20120304594
    Abstract: A machine for filling bottles with solid forms of pharmaceutical products is provided with a plurality of discharge ducts, each of which feeds a plurality of the solid forms from a containing tank into a corresponding bottle and cooperates with a deviating device, which is movable between a first operating position, in which the deviating device is arranged so as to allow the solid forms to be fed along the discharge duct and into the bottle, and a second operating position, in which the deviating device is arranged so as to prevent the solid forms from being fed along the discharge duct and into the bottle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Angelo ANSALONI, Ernesto Gamberini
  • Publication number: 20120192528
    Abstract: The bottom shell of a capsule is filled with at least two products, contained in respective tanks, by means of a metering device, which has a metering chamber for receiving a given quantity of product from each tank; and a transfer chamber, which receives and transfers the product from the metering chamber to the bottom shell, and has a weighing device for weighing the product inside the transfer chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: Angelo ANSALONI, Ernesto Gamberini, Antonio Tagliavini