Fette Gmbh

Wilhelm Fette Gmbh

Firma Wilhelm Fette Gmbh

Juergen Hinzpeter

Ingo Schmidt

Ulrich Gathmann

Christian Medicus

Joerg Gaedecke

Hans-Dieter Gruedelbach

Siegfried Franke

A method for test pressing tablets by means of a rotary tabletting machine, a rotationally driven rotor which has a series of upper and lower rams, a die-plate with dies with which the rams interact, a control cam system for said rams, and a filling assembly to continuously fill said dies with said rotor rotating, further by means of at least one pressure station at which the material located in said dies is compressed into a tablet, and a measuring device having a plurality of measuring positions which measures at least the compression force applied by said rams and the number of revolutions of said rotor, comprising the process steps of, a pair of rams selected for a single compression procedure is automatically moved to a filling position, a die or limited number of dies is filled with material with said filling assembly removed at least in part and said rotor at stoppage, said rotor is set into rotation subsequently and is sped up such as to have the desired production speed in said pressure station, and said rotor is stopped in said filling position after a revolution and signals or signal sequences of the measuring positions are recorded while the rotor is rotating and are provided to a computer for display and evaluation.

Method for testing pressing tablets

To monitor the pressing forces of an upper and lower piston of a tablet press which cooperate as a piston pair, in the currently-known process an average value formed from successive pressing force measurement results is compared with two adjustable tolerance bounds and that average value is correlated with two adjustable individual value limits which follow the course of this average value or are fixed. Maxima of individual pressing force measurements are compared with these individual value limits. To detect certain operational difficulties involving slight damage to an individual piston while avoiding tolerance ranges which are so narrow that frequent stopping of the press occurs piston pair average value limits, with which the piston pair average value of the pressing force is compared, are associated with the individual piston pairs. These piston pair average values are stored in a controlling computer which can stop the tablet press and indicate a faulty piston.

Process and apparatus for monitoring pressing forces in a tablet press

A rotary pelletizing machine includes a housing and a pelletizing assembly removably secured in the housing and including a rotatable matrix disc, upper and lower punches supported in the matrix disc for joint rotation therewith and axial displacement relative thereto, upper and lower cams for controlling positions of the upper and lower discs, and elements that enable rotation of the matrix disc relative to the cams. Upon releasing elements that secure the assembly in the housing, the pelletizing assembly can be lifted from a drive shaft that extends in the housing for imparting rotation to the matrix disc, as a unit.

Rotary pelletizing machine

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Schwarzenbek, Germany

Juergen Hinzpeter