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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
May. 04, 1999
Angelo Ansaloni, Crespellano, IT;
MG2 S.p.A, Pian di Macina-Pianoro, IT;
Abstract
An orienting assembly for medicinal capsules; the orienting assembly being characterized by having a rotary drum having seats, each for housing a top or bottom shell oriented in one of two opposite spatial directions; and by having a nozzle for generating compressed air jets, so that, if the top or bottom shell is oriented with the convexity facing the nozzle, the initial position of the top or bottom shell remains unchanged; whereas, if the top or bottom shell is oriented with the concavity facing the nozzle, the top or bottom shell is inverted by the compressed air jet generated by the nozzle; the invention also relating to a supply and orienting unit featuring the above orienting assembly.