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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 1997
Filed:
May. 26, 1995
Rudiger Schlierenkamper, Schwarzenbek, DE;
Jurgen Schikowski, Schwarzenbek, DE;
Wilhelm Fette GmbH, Schwarzenbek, DE;
Abstract
A press ram for use in a pelleting machine for making tablets including a rod-shaped ram holder, having at one end a head for engagement with cams and at its other end an axial bore, a ram insert, having at one end a pressing portion shaped in conformity with the profile of a tablet and at another end a cylindrical shaft, which is substantially matingly received in the bore of the ram holder, a radial shoulder of the ram insert thereby engaging the facing end of the ram holder, and a mechanism for releasably holding the ram insert within the ram holder. An improvement in the press ram including the wall of the bore of the ram holder including a groove, the ram insert including an axial bore for receiving an actuating pin at an end remote from the pressing portion, which actuating pin cooperates with at least one clamping element within a radial bore so as to urge the clamping element or a further clamping element actuatable by the first mentioned clamping element into the groove of the ram holder when the actuating pin is moved in a direction towards the clamping element.