Abstract: The dosing device, particularly adapted for filling gelatine capsules with measured amounts of pharmaceutical materials, comprises a tubular housing which is vertically movable up and down. To the lower end of said housing where there is secured a hollow punch, inside which there is slidably mounted an ejecting piston. The piston rod extends with its upper end into the tubular housing and is operatively connected to an actuating rod, axially movable at the interior of said housing, through a magnetic type connection. To this purpose, the lower end of the actuating rod is provided with a permanent magnet, while the upper end of the piston rod is provided with a pastille or disc made of ferromagnetic material. The disassembly of the piston rod from the actuating rod takes place by simply detaching the two parts, with minimum effort.

Abstract: The capsule filling machine comprises a plurality of capsule handling devices, such as capsule upright setting devices, capsule holders, capsule openers and capsule closers, which are removably secured onto fixed or movable parts of the machine by means of a magnetic connection. A permanent magnet is provided on the fixed or movable part of the machine, and each handling device presents, in correspondence of the part which is intended to come into contact with the permanent magnet, a portion made of ferromagnetic material.

Abstract: The apparatus for dosing metered amounts of dense pasty pharmaceutical substances and for inserting same into gelatine capsules, comprises an extrusion press which extrudes a layer of substance having a uniform density and a predetermined thickness or height. A hollow punch presenting a cavity is dipped inside said layer for its whole thickness or height, so as to take out of said layer, due to the inherent viscosity of the substance, a predetermined dose of the substance itself. The hollow punch is then positioned above an empty capsule half, and the dose is discharged into the said capsule half by means of an ejecting piston slidably movable at the interior of the hollow punch. The extrusion press comprises two parallel walls, one of which is adjustable so as to vary its distance from the other wall, thus varying the thickness of the layer of substance being extruded.