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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2024
Filed:
May. 11, 2021
I.m.a. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.a., Ozzano Dell'emilia, IT;
Massimo Ribani, Ozzano Dell'emilia, IT;
Maurizio Bedetti, Ozzano Dell'emilia, IT;
Alessandro Masotti, Ozzano Dell'emilia, IT;
I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE S.P.A., Ozzano Dell'emilia, IT;
Abstract
A filling machine for filling capsules with at least one product includes operating stations for operating on the capsules, and a moving system for transferring the capsules through the operating stations that include first and second dosing stations that are configured to fill the capsules with respective products. The moving system includes a linear electric motor, a guide rail, which includes a stator of the motor, and transfer carriages associated with the guide rail and provided with respective seats to house bodies and caps of the capsules. The transfer carriages have respective rotors of the motor interacting independently with respective magnetic fields generated by the stator to move the respective transfer carriages along the guide rail with an intermittent motion at the first dosing station when the first dosing station is activated and/or with a continuous motion at the second dosing station when the second dosing station is activate.