WO2013037364A2

WO2013037364A2 - Adjustable tablet dispenser for separating tablets of different dimensions

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Publication number: WO2013037364A2
Application number: PCT/DE2012/100277
Authority: WO
Inventors: Martin Meyer; Tilko Dietert; Andreas SCHMIEG
Original assignee: Vita-Spend Gmbh
Priority date: 2011-09-13
Filing date: 2012-09-13
Publication date: 2013-03-21
Also published as: WO2013037364A3; DE112012003805A5

Abstract

The invention comprises a feed head (5) that has an upper opening (201) for receiving tablets (T1-T4) and is bounded by a fall slot (21a). In addition, a separating unit (3) is provided below the feed head (2). The separating unit comprises an upper plate (33) that has vertically continuously shaped openings (333a-333e; 333f-333i) having cross-sections matched to the tablet shapes and a lower plate (31) that has drop-in recesses (314a-314h; 314k-314n) having depths matched to the tablet shapes and being laterally open to an upper and outer surface. The plates are adjustable in such a way that the combination of shaped opening (333a) and drop-in recess (314d) matching the dimensions of the tablets lie one above the other in the rest position (figure 5a) and form a common cavity, into which an individual tablet (T3) is able to slide via the fall slot (21a). Furthermore, an operable slide member (32) is provided, by means of which the fall slot (21a) is closed toward the feed head (2) for the transition from the rest position (figure 5a) into the active position (figure 5b), and the individual tablet (T3) is ejected laterally from the cavity and subsequently falls out downwards. The advantage of the invention is that tablets of different dimensions can be separated by selecting and adjusting a corresponding pair of shaped opening and drop-in recess. The tablet separating device is thus versatile in use and can easily be adapted to different tablet shapes.

Description

Adjustable tablet dispenser for separating tablets with different dimensions

The invention relates to a tablet separating device.

For example, in DE 196 02 201 describes a tablet dispenser for single dosing of tablets. Furthermore, e.g. in DE 43 24 102 describes a metering insert for a container. These singulation devices are matched to the dimensions of a particular tablet.

The invention is based on the object, a device of the type described above in such a way that a separation is also possible when the device is filled with tablets that have different dimensions.

The object is achieved with the separating device specified in claim 1. Advantageous further embodiments of the invention are specified in the subclaims.

The invention and further embodiments thereof are explained in more detail below with reference to two advantageous embodiments shown in the figures. It shows

1 shows a first embodiment of a running according to the invention singulator unit with all components in a perspective sectional side view,

2 is a perspective plan view of the underside of a Dosiereinsatzes in the embodiment of Figure 1 with inserted singling unit and screwed-in tablet container.

Fig. 3 is a perspective plan view of a pot of a

Wall holder in the embodiment of Fig. 1,

4 is a perspective plan view of a bottom plate of

Wall holder in the embodiment of Fig. 1, FIG. 5 a shows an inactive position for closing the tablet dispenser or an active position for dispensing an isolated tablet in FIG. 5 b, a perspective side view of the combination of the displaceable components of the singling unit in FIG Embodiment of Fig. 1, ie the operable slider, the upper plate and the pusher, a perspective side view and a plan view of the underside of the upper plate in the singulation unit in the embodiment of Fig. 1, which has mold openings with stepped cross-sections, a perspective Side view and a plan view of the upper side of the lower plate in the singulation unit in the embodiment of Fig. 1, which has drop openings with stepped depths, a perspective side view of the operable slider in the displaceable components 1 and 6, a perspective side view of the pusher in the displaceable components of the separating unit according to the embodiment of FIG. 1 and FIG. 6, a perspective side view of the first second exemplary embodiment of the invention, wherein the two plates for a filling of the separating unit with ball-shaped or pillows-shaped tablets can be set, a perspective side view corresponding to FIG. 11 a, the two plates being used for filling the association set with very elongated capsule-shaped tablets,

12a, 12b show a perspective side view and a plan view, respectively, of the lower side of the singler unit upper plate in the second exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 1a and 11b, wherein the plate has continuous mold openings with stepped cross sections, FIG.

13a, 13b is a side perspective view and a plan view, respectively, of the top of the singler unit lower plate in the embodiment of FIGS. 11a and 11b, where the plate has dimpled case dimples and shell segments whose horizontal dimensions are adjusted;

14 shows a perspective side view of the operable slider in the separating unit according to the second exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 11a and 11b, wherein an additional obliquely liftable sliding surface is coupled to the slider,

15 is a plan view of the singulation unit according to the second embodiment of Fig. 11 a and 1 b,

16 shows a perspective side view of an additional pusher in the separating unit according to the second embodiment of FIGS. 11a and 11b, which is equipped with means for generating shaking movements, and

17 is a top perspective view of an additional bottom plate in the singulating unit according to the second embodiment of FIGS. 11a and 11b, which has elements corresponding to the means for generating shaking motions in the pusher of FIG. Fig. 1 shows a first Ausführungsbeispiei for running according to the invention a tablet separating device. The essential and additional components are shown in a perspective side sectional view. A bulkhead 2 with an upper opening 201 allows filling with tablets, which may also have different shapes and dimensions per bed. The device according to the invention makes it possible that, for example, spherical, barrel-shaped or capsular tablets are filled in as required and can be dispensed by a corresponding adjustment of the upper and lower plate, ie the selection of the respectively suitable combination of mold opening and case recess. This will be explained in detail below with reference to a first exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 10 and a second exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIGS. 11a to 17.

In the embodiment of FIG. 1, the bulkhead 2 is delimited in the region of a lower opening 202 by a drop slot 21a. At the e.g. An exemplary embodiment shown in FIGS. 1, 2, 5a, 5b advantageously incorporates an additional hopper 21 under the upper opening 201 which opens into the fall slot 21a. This has a downwardly increasing constriction in the vertical direction. As a result, the packing density of tablets which slip out of the hopper 21 into the drop slot 21a is already considerably reduced for the subsequent singulation in the singling unit 3 underneath.

For better handling and enlargement of the stock of occasionally dispensable tablets, an additional tablet container 5 can preferably be placed in an overhead position on the upper opening 201 of the bulkhead 2. In the embodiment illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2, by way of example, a bottle-shaped tablet container 5 is placed as an additional reservoir. From this, the bulkhead 2 can be loaded with tablets via a removal opening 51 of the container 5. For this purpose, the bulkhead 2 preferably has at the upper opening 201 coupling means for fixing the bottle-shaped tablet container 5 in the overhead position, for example an internal thread 201a. This can be brought into engagement with an external thread 52 at the removal opening 51 of the container 5. In an approximately vertical direction below the bulkhead 2, a separation unit 3 is mounted according to the invention. This has at least one upper and lower plate 33, 31, and an operable slide 32. To facilitate handling, a pusher 34 may optionally be present in addition. The interaction of these elements of the device according to the invention is first explained in more detail using the example of a first embodiment of the invention shown in FIGS. 1 to 10 with the aid of four exemplary tablets T1-T4. An additional possible wall holder 1 for the combination of bulkhead 2 and separation unit 3 is also shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. Furthermore, FIGS. 1, 2, 5a and 5b show a particularly advantageous embodiment for a separating unit 3 below the bulkhead 2. Finally, in FIG. 6, the displaceable components of the exemplary separating unit 3 are again shown in detail in a perspective side view.

As shown by way of example in FIGS. 7a, 7b and 8a, 8b, the singling unit 3 according to the invention has an upper plate 33 with approximately vertically continuous mold openings 333a-333e. The cross sections of the mold openings are adapted to different tablet shapes, ie in particular their dimensions in the cross-sectional area. Furthermore, there is a further, lower plate 31 below with the surface 312 and the lateral surface 313 laterally open case 314a - 314h. The depths of the fall wells are also adapted to different tablet shapes, ie in particular their lengths. In order to allow a separation of a tablet from the total amount of tablets in the bulkhead, the plates 33, 31 can be adjusted according to the invention according to the particular type of tablet, ie aligned with each other. The matching to the dimensions of each located in the bulk head tablets combination of mold opening in the upper plate and falling well in the lower plate in the rest position of the separating come to lie over each other and form a common cavity into which only a single tablet slip over the drop slot can. The cavity formed from the mold opening and falling recess is thus precisely adapted to the dimensions of the respective tablets located in the bulkhead 2, ie in particular their shape and length, so that only a single tablet has space therefrom. The particular advantage of the invention thus lies in the fact that it is always possible by means of a corresponding adjustment of both plates to separate tablets which have other shapes and dimensions. As stated above, for this purpose, both plates are adjusted so that the appropriate shape for the cross section of a certain tablet mold opening in the upper plate 33 and the appropriate length of this type of case case with selected depth in the lower plate 31 are vertically above each other and below the drop slot 21 a are placed. With the right choice, the mold opening and the case recess underneath thus provide a receiving cavity adapted exactly to the shape and length of a specific tablet. Thus, only a single tablet of this type can slip into the receiving space via the drop opening of the pouring head. The receiving cavity formed from a selected and superimposed pair of a mold opening and a falling trough is thus assignable only by a single tablet.

This state of the device according to the invention is referred to as rest position and is e.g. in the figures 1 and 5a exemplified. In this case, the upper and lower plates 33, 31 are vertically one above the other so that only a tablet T1 or T3 from the slit 21a in the underlying, from the appropriate combination of mold opening 333a and case recess 314d cavity can slip. All remaining tablets, e.g. T2 and T4, remain in the bulkhead 2 above the drop slot 21a back.

With the aid of an operable slide 32, a separated tablet T1 or T3 can now be ejected. In this case, the fall slot 21a is temporarily closed in order to prevent slippage of additional tablets from the bulkhead 2 during the ejection process of the separated tablet. In such a transition from the rest position to the active position, at least the slider 32 is advantageously horizontally displaceable horizontally along the drop slot 21a horizontally from the rest position to an active position. Fig. 5b shows the bulkhead 2 and the separation unit 3 in the active position.

According to an advantageous embodiment, which is already shown in the figures, the slide 32 and the upper plate 33 form a displaceable structural unit which, in order to facilitate operation, forms an additional Chen pusher 34 can be extended. These preferably horizontally along the drop slot 21a and in the plane of Figures 5a, 5b, for example, from left to right sliding components of this embodiment are shown in perspective in the example of FIG. 6 in detail.

Thus, in the active position exemplified in Fig. 5b, the slider 32 is e.g. shifted horizontally so far to the right by actuation via the pusher 34 that the drop slot 21a is closed by the slider 32 in the direction of the lower opening 202 of the bulkhead 2 and the exemplary tablet T4 located above the upper plate 33 are pushed back into the hopper 21. As a result of the preferably simultaneous displacement of the upper plate 33, the separated tablet T3 located in the selected mold opening 333a and in the selected dropping recess 314d can be taken along laterally in a particularly simple manner. It is thereby transmitted over the bottom 315d of the case 314d to over the surface 313 of the lower plate 31, i. beyond its edge, pushed out. The tablet T3 thus enters a downwardly open discharge opening 131 and can fall out in this way via the lower opening 202 of the bulkhead 2.

Advantageously, return elements, e.g. Springs act on the displaceable components of the separation unit 3, so that at least the slide 32, or in a preferred embodiment, the associated upper plate 33, after releasing the pusher 34 again automatically return from the active to the rest position. For reasons of clarity, such return element are not shown in the figures.

According to an advantageous and, for example, in the figures 5a, 5b already shown another embodiment of the invention, the drop slot 21 a on a first side, for example, on one of the direction of displacement of the slider 32 opposite side, limited by an additional, located on the bulkhead 2 Abrollrücken 21b , This is in the direction of the upper opening 201 of the bulkhead 2 backwards or downwards curved in the direction of a mold opening in the first plate 33, thus opens in the direction of the hopper 21 and is in Fig. 5a down, for example on the Mold opening 333a directed. This has the advantage that not fallen into the receiving space and thus still on the top plate 33 located tablets, eg the Tablets T2, T4 in Fig. 1, 5a and 5b, can be pushed back by the slider 32 in the transition to the active position without jamming in the bulkhead 2 and hopper 21.

Further advantageous embodiments of the operable slider 32 are e.g. from Figs. 6 and 9 can be seen. So this can advantageously have an additional slide 325 which limits the drop slot 21 a on a second side. This is curved towards the upper opening 201 of the bulkhead 2, i. in the example of Figures 5a, 5b directed downward on the mold opening 333a in the first plate 33. This also facilitates the pushing back of the remaining non-separated tablets into the hopper 21 during the transition to the active position. In the preferred embodiment shown in Figures 5a, 5b, 6, 9, the chute 325 is disposed along the drop slot 21a in a position opposite the roll back 21b. The falling slot is particularly advantageously limited on both sides in this way so that it narrows downwardly in the direction of the upper side 312 of the upper plate 31 in a V-shape.

In the embodiment shown in Figures 6, 9, the slider 32 is provided with an additional mounting plate 320 having first and second ends 320a, 320b. A guide groove 320c and additional guide cylinder 321 on the top 321 allow, in cooperation with other fixed structural elements on the underside of the bulkhead 2 a preferably horizontal displacement between rest and active positions.

Fig. 2 shows a view of the underside of an exemplary bulkhead 2, wherein to facilitate an inspection in the example of FIG. 1 additionally existing elements, especially a pusher 34 and a bottom plate 13, are not shown. In this case, the lower plate 31, which is fixedly mounted on the underside of the separating unit 3 via a latching shaft 202a, is visible from below. Furthermore, in the right-hand area, the underside 322 of the receiving plate 320 of the slide 32 and the upper plate 33 projecting beyond its front end 320a can be seen in partial detail. According to FIGS. 6 and 9, the operable slide 32 may advantageously be equipped with an additional, in particular approximately horizontally displaceable receiving plate 320 with an upper side 321 and a lower side 322. The chute 325 is advantageously connected to the top 320 in such a way that tablets sliding thereon are fed directly to a mold opening selected for the dimensions of this type of tablet, for example the mold opening 333a on the top 332 of the second plate 33 in FIG. 6, 9. A slipped into the mold opening 333a tablet can pass through a drop opening 324 in the receiving plate 320 in the selected case recess of the underlying first plate 31. For holding the upper plate 33, a latching shaft 321 b is advantageously present on the upper side of the receiving plate 320, which engages in a corresponding bore 331 in the upper plate 33. The adjustment of the upper plate to the dimensions of the respective tablets, ie selection and placement of the appropriate mold opening under the drop slot 21a, takes place in the embodiment of the upper plate 33 shown in Fig. 6 advantageously via a rotation about the locking shaft 321 b. This advantageous embodiment of the upper plate 33 and a corresponding advantageous embodiment of the lower plate 31 shown in Figures 2, 5a, 5b will be explained in more detail with reference to the figures 7a, 7b and 8a, 8b.

According to FIGS. 2 and 6, first and second receiving cylinders 322a, 322b are furthermore present on the underside 322 of the preferably horizontally displaceable receiving plate 320 of the operable slide 32. To this, a pusher 34 via corresponding first and second drive pins 342, 343 are coupled on the top of a pusher plate 341. According to FIGS. 6 and 10, the pusher 34 advantageously has a pusher plate 341 stretched in the direction of displacement, with a first or second end face 34a, 34b and a first or second longitudinal side 34c, 34d. Advantageously, an additional pusher surface 346 is mounted on the front end face 34a for the exercise of manual intervention. Advantageously, a discharge opening 341a corresponding to the drop opening 324 of the overlying receiving plate 320 of the operable slide 32 on the rear end face 34b of the pusher plate 341 is enclosed by a first and second side web 341b, 341c. These serve on the one hand as a support for the driving pins 342, 343. On the other hand, in their region on the longitudinal side 34c, 34d advantageously additional first and second guide element 344, 345 attached. These support in cooperation with fixed construction elements on the bottom of the bulkhead 2, the horizontal displacement between rest and active positions.

According to FIG. 6, 9, the operable slider 32 can advantageously be equipped with an additional knife 326, in particular vertically upward. As shown in Fig. 5a and 5b, this occurs at a transition of the slider 32 in the active position in the drop slot 21a. Hereby, deadlocks between the tablets located in the hopper 21 and the drop slot, also referred to as bridges, can be dissolved and a safe slipping of tablets up to the selected corresponding pair of drop opening and drop pan can be ensured. In contrast, the knife 326 is in the idle state, as shown in Fig. 5a, laterally withdrawn and gives the transition between hopper 21 and drop slot 21 a free.

According to a further, in the figures also already shown advantageous embodiment, the slider 32 may have an additional web 323, in particular in the form of a vertically downwardly projecting nose. This is mounted on the underside 322 of the receiving plate 320 of the slider and is in the rest position of the slider 32, such. 1 and 5a can be seen on the lateral surface 313 of the lower plate 31 at. The dropping recess 314d, which is placed under the dropping slot 21a and selected for the respective tablets located in the pouring head 2, is thus covered laterally. This is e.g. the scattered tablet T3 secured against falling out of the cavity. Furthermore, an uncontrolled slipping further tablets is prevented from the hopper. In contrast, in the active position according to FIG. 5b, the web 323 is horizontally displaced on the lower side of the receiving plate 320 of the slide 32 along the drop slot 21a such that the dropping recess 314d is laterally released and a discharge opening 131 is formed next to the lateral surface 313 of the lower plate 31, over which the isolated tablet T3 can fall out.

The upper plate 33, which is equipped with continuous mold openings of different cross-sectional size, and the lower plate 31, which is equipped with upwardly and laterally open case depressions with different bowl depths can be executed in different ways. For example, these plates can represent strip-shaped webs which are provided with linearly adjacent mold openings or falling cavities. To set to the dimensions of the respective tablets present, these webs can be moved depending on the relative position to each other, for example, parallel or orthogonal to each other until the appropriate combination of mold opening and falling well over each other, form the common cavity for separating a tablet and vertical as possible under the Fall slot are placed. In another embodiment of the invention, individual plates may be present as a carrier per mold opening or case trough, with which the separating device can be individually equipped.

In the two advantageous embodiments shown in FIGS. 1 to 10 and 11a to 17, the lower plate 31 is designed in the form of an approximately cylindrical, rotatable disk. This embodiment can also be referred to as "height wheel" or lower rotary cylinder for short, an exemplary embodiment of which is shown in a perspective side view and in a plan view in FIGS. 8a and 8b, which is arranged in a circular manner around a rotation axis 311, in particular The downpipes 312 and the casings 315a-315i with differently stepped depths are distinguished by well bottoms 315a-315i, so that a high-depth downfall is selected for separating a large tablet or an elongate capsule For the separation of smaller tablets, a flat depression is selected instead, eg the depression 314a For isolating particularly small tablets, the region 315i on the upper side 312 can also be used . Rastnuten 313a on the lateral surface 313 available.

In the two advantageous embodiments shown in FIGS. 1 to 10 and 11a to 17, the upper plate 33 is also embodied in the form of an approximately cylindrical, rotatable disk. This embodiment may also be referred to as a "forming wheel" or an upper rotating cylinder for brevity, an exemplary embodiment of which is shown in a perspective side view and in a plan view in Figures 7a and 7b with 333a - 333e arranged in particular circular, arranged around the axis of rotation 331 vertically through mold openings. These differ by different cross sections. Thus, for separating a large tablet, a mold opening having a correspondingly large width is selected, for example the mold opening 333b or 333d. For the separation of small tablets, a narrow mold opening is selected instead, eg the mold opening 333c or 333e. For fixing the forming wheel in a selected position, for example, a ribbed edge 334 is present on the underside.

The invention has the advantage that by selecting and setting a corresponding pair of mold opening and case recess tablets of different dimensions can be isolated. The tablet separation device according to the invention is thus universally usable and easily switchable to another tablet form.

It is particularly advantageous if the separating device according to the invention can be supplied with tablets from an additional, preferably bottle-shaped, tablet container. In Figures 1 and 2, such a tablet container 5 is exemplified. This has the advantage that a deflated tablet container can be readily replaced by a new tablet container. This can also be filled with tablets, which are composed of other active ingredients and have other external dimensions or shapes.

FIGS. 3 and 4 each show a perspective top view of an exemplary wall holder 1 with an additional holding pot 11 and an associated bottom plate 13. The holding pot 11 has a front or rear side 11 a, 11 b and an upper or lower side 11c, 11d. On the upper side 11c, a receiving opening 111 for inserting the bulkhead 2 of the device according to the invention is arranged. This has advantageous for preventing rotation of an oval cross-section, to which the outer shape of the housing 20 of the bulkhead 2 is adjusted. To protect against unwanted falling out, the housing 20 is provided with a latching nose 203, which can be brought into engagement with the insertion pot 2 in the pot with a latching opening 113 in engagement. The device according to the invention can advantageously be attached to a wall via a profiled rail 12 which engages in a groove 112 on the rear side 11b of the receiving pot 11, for example on a wall. In addition, a plurality of separating devices, which are filled with different tablets, are mounted in a magazine-like manner next to each other in the professional rail.

In the embodiment shown in Figures 1 and 3 is located on the bottom 11c of the pot 11, a guide trough 114, in which the pusher 34 is inserted. This can be operated via the pusher surface 346 from the outside by a person to bring the device according to the invention in the active position and eject a scattered tablet can. Advantageously, the pot 11 is closed at the bottom 11 d via an additional bottom plate 13. This allows the pusher 34 as well as all components of the singulator unit 3, e.g. the lower and upper plates 31, 33 and the slider 32 are secured against falling out.

An exemplary bottom plate 13 is shown in Fig. 4 and has a top or bottom 13 a, 13 b and a rear or front end face 13 c, 13 d. At the rear end face 13c an elastic locking lip 134 is mounted with handle 135. As a result, a latching of the pot 11 with the mounting rail 12 or an unlocking is facilitated. Finally, the discharge opening 131 is preferably arranged in the bottom plate 13 and on its upper side 13a on three sides advantageously enclosed by U-shaped guide walls 132. This facilitates a safe ejection of an isolated tablet from the device according to the invention.

A second exemplary embodiment of a tablet separating device 2 designed according to the invention is explained with reference to FIGS. 11a to 17. To simplify the understanding, the same reference numerals have been used therein as far as possible, as in the first exemplary embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 10. Only for modified or supplemented components were additional reference numbers introduced.

As can be seen in particular from FIGS. 13a, 13b and 11a, 11b, in this embodiment of the tablet separating device according to the invention, the lateral surface 313 of the lower plate 31 additionally has shroud segments 316k to 316n, which are associated with the case troughs 314k-314n in the lower plate 31 and which each have a shape adapted to a tablet shape horizontal extent. Thus, the casing segment 316k belonging to the falling well 314k with the well bottom 315k has the same dimensions as the remaining casing surface 313, ie does not project or does not spring back. On the other hand, the shell segment 3161 belonging to the recess 3141 with the trough bottom 3151 has a considerably greater extent than the remaining jacket surface 313, ie it is clearly apparent. Finally, the jacket segments 316m, 316n belonging to the case troughs 314m, 314n with the trough bottoms 315m, 315n also have larger expansions than the remaining jacket surface 313, ie they project more or less in the radial direction. Due to these different radial distances of the shell segments 316k - 316n to the rotation axis 311, the expansions of the associated fall wells 3141 - 314n are tracked accordingly. This embodiment has the particular advantage that the separating device according to the invention is even more finely adapted to the shape and size of each filled tablets and thus the accuracy of the separation of a tablet can be further improved, ie especially the avoidance of possible jamming of tablets in the region of the drop slot or of the common cavity formed from the set combination of mold opening and falling recess.

According to the invention, this effect is achieved in that hereby the position of the operable slider 32 is tracked by abutment of the web 323 on the respective shell segment 316k-316n in the rest position so that the fall slot 21a can adopt a width adapted to the respective tablet shape. For example, Fig. 11a shows an exemplary setting in which the combination of mold opening 333f in the top plate 33 and drop trough 314k in the bottom plate 31 has been selected as a suitable combination. This setting is particularly suitable for spherical, pill-shaped tablets with average dimensions. In such a case, no tracking of the width of the drop slot 21a is required. The web 323 of the disk 32 is thus in Fig. 11a on the shell segment 316k, which coincides with the regular lateral surface 313 of the lower plate 31, so that adjusts a case recess 21a with the usual, largest possible width. On the other hand, for example, Fig. 11b shows an example setting in which the combination of mold opening 333g in the upper plate 33 and the case 3141 in the lower plate 31 has been selected as a suitable combination. This setting is particularly suitable for elongated, barrel-shaped tablets and tablet capsules of short length and small cross-section. In such a case, tracking the width of the drop slot 21a is advantageous. The web 323 of the disk 32 is thus in Fig. 11 b on the strongly protruding shell segment 3161 that sets a severely narrowed fall well 21 a. This is optimally matched to the dimensions of an elongated capsule with a small length, which comes to lie in an upright position in the common cavity of the mold opening 333g and the case 3141.

Similarly, the combinations of the mold openings 333h and 333i in the top plate 33 with the drop troughs 314m and 314n in the bottom plate 31 are optimally matched to other tablet shapes, e.g. on medium-length and medium-sized tablet capsules or capsules of large length and cross-section.

FIGS. 14, 15 show a further advantageous embodiment of the tablet separating device according to the invention. In this case, the bulkhead 2 is equipped with a hood-shaped filling attachment 22. In this there is a funnel-shaped trough 22a, which tapers on the bottom of the recess slot 21a. In the trough 22a at least one inclined slide-off surface 21 d is arranged for tablets, which is inclined to the drop slot 21 a. According to the invention, this slip-off surface 21 d is coupled via deflecting means to the operable slide 32 so that it is temporarily raised during transitions of the slide 32 between rest and active position. As a result, a loosening of the supply of tablets in the bulkhead 2 can be achieved with each actuation of the tablet separating device. The further oblique slipping surface 21c for tablets, which is likewise inclined to the dropping slit 21a in the plan view of FIG. 15 on the opposite side of the slotted slit 21a, can either be fixed or, like the slipping surface 21d, likewise liftable. An exemplary embodiment for the deflecting means is shown in dashed line in FIG. In this case, the inclined slipping surface 21 d rests on a vertically liftable support wall 21 d1. This is guided on the one hand by vertical guide ribs 21 d3, which engage in corresponding channels in a stationary component of the separating device and allow vertical up and down movements of the supporting wall 21 d1. The drive of the slide-off surface 21 d takes place via a driving pin 21 d2 located on the outside of the supporting wall 21 d1. This in turn engages in an inclined guide groove 326 a, which is embedded in the side surface of the vertical blade 326 of the slider 32. In this way, per transition of the slider 32 between a rest and active position, which in the example of FIG. 14 has a displacement of the slider 32 along the plane of its receiving plate 320 result, also caused an up and down movement of the support wall and Abrutschfläche become.

With reference to FIGS. 16, 17, a further advantageous embodiment of the invention will be explained. In this case, the pressure plate 341 is advantageously equipped with additional elevations and / or depressions arranged in the direction of actuation 34e. In the example of FIG. 16, these are in the form of two parallel juxtaposed rows of consecutive slots and webs 341 d, 341 e executed. These correspond with depressions and / or elevations on the underside of the bulkhead 2, so that at transitions of the operable slide 32 between rest and active positions shaking movements are exerted, which are transmitted to the housing and all components therein of the separating device according to the invention. Hereby, each time the separating device is activated, loosening of the supply of tablets in the bulkhead 2 can be achieved. In the example of FIG. 17, the depressions and / or elevations on the underside of the bulkhead 2 are designed as spring tongues 136, 137, which are cut free in the bottom plate 13. In addition, these have at the exposed end to the top of the bottom plate 13 directed locking nubs 136a, 137a. Since the bottom plate 13 closes the housing of the separating device down, the push plate 341 is thereon. With a displacement of the pusher 34 in the direction of displacement 34e thus engage the locking nubs 136a, 137a in the slots and webs 341 d, 341 e, and thus cause the Rüttelbewegungen. LIST OF REFERENCES

1 wall bracket

1 pot

11a, 11b front side, back side

11c, 11d top, bottom

111 receiving opening for bulkhead, e.g. oval

112 groove for profile rail

113 detent opening

114 leadership trough

12 rail

13 base plate

13a, 13b top, bottom

13c, 13d rear, front end

131 discharge opening

132 U-shaped guide walls

134 locking lip

135 handle

136, 137 Spring tongues, esp. As free cuts in the base plate

136a, 137a directed at the top of the bottom plate locking nubs on the exposed end of the spring tongues

2 pouring head

20 housings, e.g. oval

201 upper opening for the introduction of tablets e.g. from a placed in overhead position tablet container

201 a tablet-bottle coupling agent, e.g. an internal thread

202 bottom opening for dispensing individual tablets

202a latching shaft for lower plate 31st

203 latching nose for engagement in detent opening 113

21 hopper

21a drop slot

21b rolling back, fixed c fixed inclined slipping surface inclined to the falling slit d liftable oblique slipping surface inclined to the slotted slit d1 vertically liftable supporting wall

d2 driving pin on one side of the supporting wall

d3 vertical guide ribs on the other side of the support wall dome-shaped filling attachment

a funnel-shaped depression

separation unit

lower plate with open to the top of the plate and lateral surface fall wells, which have adapted to different tablet shapes depths

1 rotary axis, central bore for rotary shaft

2 plate surface, e.g. upper drum end face

3 radial lateral surface

3a locking grooves

4a - 314h Fall wells

5a - 315h trough bottoms

5i well bottom on the surface of the lower plate

4k - 314n fall wells

5k - 315n trough bottoms

6k - 316n shell segments of the case troughs in the lower plate 31

pusher

0 receiving plate

0a, 320b first, second end

0c guide groove

1 top of the mounting plate

1a guide cylinder

1 b locking shaft for upper plate 33rd

2 bottom

2a, 322b receiving cylinder for first, second driving pin

3 bridge, for example vertical downwards nose as a stop 4 drop opening slide

vertical knife

oblique guide groove

upper plate with continuous through openings in the axial direction, which have adapted to different tablet shapes cross-sections

Rotary axis, central bore for rotary shaft

upper side of the disc

continuous mold openings

Ribbed edge on the bottom

handle

first, second end face

first, second longitudinal side

displacement direction

pusher plate

ejection port

first, second side bar

Chains of detent openings in the pusher plate in the direction of displacement

first, second driving pin

first, second guide element

pusher surface

bottle-shaped tablet container

removal opening

external thread

Tablets, by way of example

Claims

claims

A tablet separating device which can assume a resting and active position for dispensing a single tablet, and which contains a) a pouring head (2) for receiving tablets (T1-T4) with a dropping slot (21a), and b) a separating unit ( 3) below the pouring head (2), comprising b1) an upper plate (33) with approximately vertical through-openings (333a-333e; 333f-333i), each having a cross-section adapted to a tablet shape, b2) a lower plate (31 ) underneath the top plate (33) with case troughs (314a-314h; 314k-314n) open to the top and lateral surfaces (312, 313), each having a depth adapted to a tablet length, and b3) the plates (33, 31) are arranged approximately horizontally and are adjustable so that the matching to the dimensions of the respective in the bulkhead (2) tablets combination of mold opening (333f) and falling well (314k) in the rest position (Fig. 5a) are superimposed and a form a common cavity into which a single tablet (T3) can slide over the drop slot (21a), and b4) an operable slider (32), whereby the transition from the rest position (Fig. 5a) in the active position (Fig. 5b) of the fall slot (21a) closed to the bulkhead (2) and the individual tablet (T3) is laterally pushed out of the cavity, and then falls down.

The tablet separating device according to claim 1, wherein the operable slider (32) in transitions between rest and active positions approximately horizontally along the drop slot (2 b) is displaceable.

A tablet separating device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said upper plate (33) is a) an approximately cylindrical rotatable disc, and said mold openings (333a-333e; 333f-333i) are arranged approximately circularly about an axis of rotation (331), and b) for adjustment to the respectively in the bulkhead (2) located tablets (T1-T4) is approximately horizontally rotatable about the rotation axis (331) until the appropriate mold opening (333a) is placed above the associated drop slot (21a).

A tablet separating device according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein said lower plate (31) is a) an approximately cylindrical rotatable disc and said drop troughs (314a-314h; 314k-314n) are arranged approximately circularly around a rotation axis (311), and b) for adjustment to each in the bulkhead (2) tablets (T1-T4) is approximately horizontally rotatable about the axis of rotation (331) until the appropriate case trough (314d) is placed below the associated mold opening (333f).

A tablet separating device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the pouring head (2) has a rolling back (21b) curved downwardly toward a mold opening (333f) in the first plate (33) and the dropping slot (21a) Limits a first side, so that in the rest position slipping tablets (T1-T4) from the bulkhead (2) in the direction of the cavity from the matching Combination of mold opening and falling recess in the upper and lower plate (33, 31) is facilitated.

A tablet separating device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the operable slider (32) has a chute (325) curved downwardly toward the respective mold opening (333f) in the first plate (33) and the drop slot (21a). delimited at a second side, so that in the rest position slipping tablets (T1-T4) from the bulkhead (2) towards the cavity of the appropriate combination of mold opening and falling well in the upper and lower plate (33, 31) is relieved.

7. Tablettenunterzelungsvorrichtung according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the operable slide (32) has a knife (326) which dips at transitions of the disc (32) between rest and active position for loosening of tablets in the drop slot (21 a).

A tablet separating device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the operable pusher (32) comprises retaining means (320, 321 b), via which the upper plate (33) a) in the rest position, forming the cavity from a suitable combination of mold opening (333f). and falling trough (314k) is held below the drop slot (21a), and b) is taken along during the transition of the slider to the active position so that the single tablet (T3) laterally out of the drop trough (314K) of the underlying lower plate (33) is pushed out, and then from the mold opening (333f) of the upper plate (33) falls down.

9. tablet separating device according to claim 8, wherein the operable slide (32) has a web (323) which abuts a) in the rest position on the lateral surface (313) of the lower plate (31), so that the under the drop slot (21 a) b) is taken along with a transition of the slide (32) in the active position and thus the case recess (314d, 314K) is released laterally, so that the case (314d, 314k) is laterally covered and prevented falling out of the individual tablet pushed out single tablet and via an output opening (131) next to the lateral surface (313) of the lower plate (31) falls down.

10. A tablet separating device according to claim 9, wherein a) the lateral surface (313) of the lower plate (31) has sheath segments (316k-316n) associated with the droppings (314k-314n) and each having a horizontal dimension adapted to a tablet shape have, and b) the position of the operable slide (32) by conditioning the web (323) on the respective shell segment (316k-316n) in the rest position is tracked so that the fall slot (21a) adapted to the respective tablet shape width.

11. The tablet separating device according to claim 1, wherein at least one oblique slide-off surface (21d) inclined to the slotted slot is arranged for tablets, and b) the slipping surface is deflected via deflection means ) is so coupled to the operable slide (32) that it is temporarily raised at transitions of the slide (32) between rest and active position.

12. Tablettenunterzelungsvorrichtung according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the separating unit (3) comprises a via a pusher (34) operable pusher plate (341) which is coupled to perform transitions between rest and active position with the operable slide (32), and in the active position, an ejection opening (341a) is released to exit the individual tablet (T3) pushed out of the case trough (314d) of the lower plate (31).

13. The tablet separating device according to claim 12, wherein the pressure plate (341) in the actuating direction (34e) arranged elevations and / or depressions (341 d, 341 e) having recesses and / or elevations (136, 136a, 137, 137a) on the underside of the bulkhead (2) correspond so that at transitions of the operable slide (32) between resting and active position shaking movements in particular on the bulkhead (2) are exercised.

14. Tablet separating device according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the bulkhead (2)

Coupling means (201a) for placing a particular bottle-shaped tablet container (5) in an overhead position, so that the bulkhead (2) via a removal opening (51) of the container (5) can be filled with tablets.

15. Tablettenunterzelungsvorrichtung according to any one of the preceding claims, with a wall holder (1), in particular a profiled rail (12), for cantilevered and downwardly open hooking of bulkhead (2) and separating unit (3).