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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2000
Ivano Baroncini, Osteria Grande, IT;
I.M.A. Industria Macchine, Bologna, IT;
Abstract
In a device for feeding tablets to a blister band moving in a packaging machine, a vibrating container, containing a mass of tablets, features a bottom wall having channels for feeding the tablets. The channels communicate with relative slots made in the bottom wall, and the slots communicate with conveying means which feed the tablets along a predetermined feeding path and release the tablets into respective blisters of the blister band. The conveying means include a plate featuring a plurality of grooves, arranged one beside the other, and a covering element. The covering element is coupled with the plate and is adjustable with respect to the plate and has transversal wings situated inside respective grooves of the plate, so as to define respective channels for conveying the tablets. The transversal dimensions of the channels can be changed, while said tablets feeding is stopped, by acting on an adjusting nonius coupled with the conveying means, changing simultaneously also the positions of said wings with respect to the grooves of the plate.