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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ernesto Gamberini, Rastignano, IT;
Assignee:
H.P.F. S.r.l., Via del Savena, IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 1/00 ;
Abstract
On a continuous machine for filling the bottom shells of capsules with a powdered product, the bottom shells are conveyed so as to be equally spaced along a given path with a first spacing; the machine having a number of metering wheels rotating about respective parallel axes, and each having a respective number of metering devices moving with the relative metering wheel along a relative portion of the path, each in time with a relative bottom shell; and the metering devices being equally spaced about the relative axis with a second spacing substantially equal to the product of the number of metering wheels and the first spacing.