Fette Gmbh

Fette Compacting Gmbh

Wilhelm Fette Gmbh

Fette Engineering Gmbh

Werner Seifert

Ingo Schmidt

Jürgen Hinzpeter

Ulrich Gathmann

Jörg Gaedecke

Thomas Heinrich

Harald Römer

Joachim Greve

Daniel Malick

Alexander Oldenburg

Jan-Eric Kruse

Kai Hübner

Annett Janke

Peter Lüneburg

Jan Fabian Scheffler

Wolfram Lämmerhirt

Alexander Oldenberg

Peter Preuss

Fabian Scheffler

Keno Freyer

Patrick Liesack

An apparatus for filling capsules comprises a conveyor wheel, on the circumference of which a plurality of capsule holders is provided a conveyor wheel drive that alternately passes through stopping times and movement times, so that the capsule holders move along the conveying path in cycles, and a plurality of process stations disposed along the conveying path. The process stations comprise at least one supply station for supplying capsules to be filled to the conveyor wheel, at least one opening station for opening the capsules by separating the upper and lower capsule parts, at least one filling station for filling the lower capsule parts, at least one closing station for closing the filled capsules by connecting the upper and lower capsule parts, and at least one discharge station for discharging the filled capsules. A method for filling capsules is also described.

Apparatus and method for filling capsules

The invention relates to a pressing device for a press, in particular for a rotary press, wherein the pressing device is designed to work together with at least one press punch of the press during operation of the press so that the at least one press punch presses material located in a receiver, wherein the pressing device comprises a force measuring device for measuring the force exerted by the at least one press punch on the pressing device, wherein at least one section of the pressing device is moveable between a closed operation position and an opened maintenance position, and wherein the force measuring device in the opened maintenance position is at least partially accessible from outside. The invention also relates to a rotary press.

Pressing device for a press and a rotary press

The invention relates to a press, a rotary press in particular, comprising a press housing in which several operating components of the press are arranged, further comprising power-related components, which provide the operating components with electric energy for the operation, and comprising control components which exchange control- and/or measurement signals with the operating components and control signals with the power-related components, characterised in that the power-related components are arranged separately from the control components in a power element box which can be arranged at option on or within the press housing, or outside of the press housing and separately from the same.

Press

System for the production of preforms made of a powder material, in particular tablets, with a rotary tablet press, which is arranged in a housing supported by a frame in the housing, wherein an electric drive motor is integrated into the rotor of the tablet press and the rotor is swivel-mounted on a middle column of the frame, and a control cabinet for the tablet press, which contains among other things a machine computer for the operation of the tablet press, wherein the middle column is supported on a horizontal load-bearing element, which is arranged at a distance above a base plate placed on the floor and the control cabinet is arranged in the interim space between the horizontal load-bearing element and the base plate.

System for the production of preforms made of powder material, in particular tablets

The present invention is related to an apparatus and a method for the measurement of the vertical position of upper and lower punches, pairwisely associated to a rotatably driven rotor of a rotary tablet press and rotating synchronously with the rotor, which perform a vertical movement in certain regions along the circumference of their rotational movement during a rotation of the rotor. The apparatus features at least one scale arranged on at least one of the upper and/or lower punches, running in parallel to the vertical movement direction of the respective upper and/or lower punch, and at least one reading device associated to the scale, also rotating synchronously with the rotor, by means of which a vertical position of the respective upper and/or lower punch can be measured by reading out the scale. The inventions is furthermore related to a corresponding rotary tablet press and a corresponding method.

Apparatus for the measurement of the vertical position of upper and lower punches of a rotary tablet press

A method for quality surveillance in manufacturing tablets in a rotary tablet press which, in a compression chamber, has a rotor with upper and lower rams, a die-plate, a cam system for the rams, at least one compressing station, and a charging system for the powdered material requiring compression wherein the tablets are checked for chemical and/or mechanical properties, wherein at least some chemical and/or mechanical data of the tablets is obtained by means of a NIR or LIF sensor in the compression chamber after the upper rams have left the dies, after a measuring procedure has been initiated by a machine computer in response to the die positions determined by a position generator relative to the NIR or LIF sensor.

Method and apparatus for quality surveillance during the manufacture of tablets

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.

Cooling system for a rotary tablet press

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.

Device and method for monitoring the production of tablets in a rotary press

Tablet press, with an upper housing part for receiving a rotor and comprising pressing tools, a lower housing part with side walls for receiving a drive device for the rotor, servo drives for peripheral apparatus for the tablet press, a switch cabinet for receiving a machine computer, electrical parts, components, such as power units with their control switches for the drive device, servo drive and peripheral apparatus, a switch cabinet housing with a rear wall, a bottom wall, a cover wall and side walls and an open front face being attached via its rear face to the outer face of a side wall of the lower housing part, furthermore with a hood which comprises hood side walls and a hood cover wall and which is pivotally mounted about a vertical axis on the switch cabinet housing or on the lower housing part by means of a hood side wall, the hood being constructed and slidable over the switch cabinet housing, in such a manner that the hood cover wall seals the front face of the switch cabinet housing and the hood side walls comprise a spacing with all the walls of the switch cabinet housing to form a ventilation duct almost completely surrounding the switch cabinet housing, furthermore with a first fan which feeds outside air into the ventilation duct via at least one inlet aperture in the hood, an outlet aperture in the hood via which the air escapes out of the ventilation duct and a second fan which circulates air in the interior of the switch cabinet housing in such a manner that it spreads along the inner face of the switch cabinet walls.

Switch cabinet for a tablet press

An apparatus for singling out tablets for a rotary tablet-compressing press the rotor of which has associated therewith a nozzle which, via a line and a controllable valve disposed in the line, is adapted to be connected to a pressure source in order to route a tablet into a rejects duct wherein the control signals for the valve are produced by a control device, characterized in that the line, between the orifice of the nozzle and the valve, has disposed a pressure sensor which delivers a sensor signal if the valve is opened or a predetermined minimum pressure prevails in the line and a logic evaluation circuit is provided into which the sensor signal and the control signal are input and that an error signal is produced in the evaluation circuit, which signal is evaluated by the control device if the time relation of the control signals and the sensor signals deviates from a predetermined relation.

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