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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2006
Detlev Gertitschke, Laupheim, DE;
Wolfgang Krahl, Laupheim, DE;
Detlev Gertitschke, Laupheim, DE;
Wolfgang Krahl, Laupheim, DE;
Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG, Laupheim, DE;
Abstract
An apparatus for loading small objects into respective blisters of a foil web has a plurality of substantially identical fill plates each having an array of receptacles corresponding to the blisters of an area of the foil. A conveyor moves the fill plates one after another in a transport direction at an upper level from a fill station remote from the web to a transfer station close to the web, then lowers them to a lower level, then returns them in an opposite return direction from the transfer station to the fill station, and finally raises them in the transfer station to the upper level. At the fill station the receptacles of the plates are filled with the small objects. At the transfer station the small objects are taken out of the receptacles of the plates and put into the blisters of the web.