Josef Uhlmann Maschinenfabrik Gmbh & Co. Kg

Josef Uhlmann Maschinenfabrik Gbmh & Co. Kg

Herbert Rittinger

Detlev H Gertitschke

Peter Faller

Dieter Janek

Karlheinz Rapp

Peter Auer

Detlef Gertitschke

Rudolf Scheffold

Bernd Eberle

Method and device for the length rectification of a foil strip of a

A transfer conveyor for transporting an object from an intake location to an output location according to the invention has a frame adjacent the locations, a planet carrier rotatable on the frame about a carrier axis, a wheel rotatable on the frame adjacent the carrier about the carrier axis, and at least one planet gear carried on the carrier and rotatable thereon about a planet axis parallel to but offset from the carrier axis. A ring gear meshing with the planet gear is centered on but not rotatable relative to the carrier axis. The gears have respective pitch circles and the circumference of the ring-gear pitch circle is a whole-number multiple of the circumference of the planet-gear pitch circle. A support carried on the wheel is coupled to the planet gear offset from the planet axis so that the support orbits about the planet axis as the planet gear rotates. A suction gripper mounted on the support moves jointly therewith at least radial of the carrier axis. A drive rotates the planet carrier about its axis and thereby displaces the suction gripper past the locations in a hypocycloid having cusps at the locations.

Transfer conveyor for packaging plant

The apparatus for feeding and depositing small items, such as a tablet, capsule, pill or the like, in a deep drawn foil strip comprises a feed slider and a distributing slider. Above the foil strip the two sliders are positioned over each other. The upper slider movable transverse to the foil strip direction is the feed slider with a plurality of openings formed to receive and pass small items and positioned in the same pattern as the cups. The lower slider movable along the foil strip direction is the distributing slider with a plurality of holes allowing the passage of the small items from the openings into the cups. The sliders are slidable between a delivering position in which the openings cover the holes and the cups and a closed position in which the distributing slider secures the bottoms of the openings against a passage of the small items. The feed slider forms the base of a loading box fillable with the small items in no particular order provided adjacent the foil stirp in the motion direction and is movable back and forth from the delivery position with all its openings until in the loading box. The loading box is closed in the direction of the foil strip by a skimmer strip for the small items. Below the feed slider a lower base is positioned which secures the openings from below against the falling through of the small items and forms the sliding path for the samll items in the sliding motion. The feed slider is moved in rapid alternation with its openings inside of the loading box for uniform filling of the openings with small items.

Apparatus for ordering and feeding a small item like a tablet, capsule,

The loading apparatus of our invention comprises a filling shoe for input of small products, particularly pharmaceutical products, into a plurality of receptacles of a package component moving by and below the filling shoe. The filling shoe is provided with at least one feed chamber for receiving and dispensing the product which has a mouth opening below to the package component. A product duct for feeding the products one after the other is connected to and ends in the feed chamber. Each feed chamber is connected to at least one vacuum passage which is connected to and communicates with a vacuum source. The front side of the feed chamber in the motion direction of the package component may be formed as a guide slope running slantedly downward toward the package component opening in or to a vacuum passage with the feed chamber and to the package component. Vacuum slots may be provided running in a wall of the product duct and ending in the feed chamber to augment the vacuum effect in the product duct.

Loading apparatus for a packaging machine for small products

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Laupheim, Germany

Herbert Rittinger