EP2105291A2 - Dispositif et procédé de mesure de la position verticale de poinçons supérieurs et inférieurs d'une presse rotative pour comprimés - Google Patents

Dispositif et procédé de mesure de la position verticale de poinçons supérieurs et inférieurs d'une presse rotative pour comprimés Download PDF

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EP2105291A2
EP2105291A2 EP09003349A EP09003349A EP2105291A2 EP 2105291 A2 EP2105291 A2 EP 2105291A2 EP 09003349 A EP09003349 A EP 09003349A EP 09003349 A EP09003349 A EP 09003349A EP 2105291 A2 EP2105291 A2 EP 2105291A2
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Ingo Schmidt
Keno Freyer
Werner Seifert
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B30—PRESSES
    • B30B—PRESSES IN GENERAL
    • B30B11/00—Presses specially adapted for forming shaped articles from material in particulate or plastic state, e.g. briquetting presses, tabletting presses
    • B30B11/02—Presses specially adapted for forming shaped articles from material in particulate or plastic state, e.g. briquetting presses, tabletting presses using a ram exerting pressure on the material in a moulding space
    • B30B11/08—Presses specially adapted for forming shaped articles from material in particulate or plastic state, e.g. briquetting presses, tabletting presses using a ram exerting pressure on the material in a moulding space co-operating with moulds carried by a turntable
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B30—PRESSES
    • B30B—PRESSES IN GENERAL
    • B30B11/00—Presses specially adapted for forming shaped articles from material in particulate or plastic state, e.g. briquetting presses, tabletting presses
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  • the invention relates to an apparatus and a method for measuring the vertical position of a rotatably driven rotor of a rotary tablet press paired and synchronously rotating with the rotor upper and lower punches, the vertical movement during a rotor rotation in certain areas along the circumference of its rotational movement To run.
  • Rotary tablet presses have long been known.
  • the rotor of such presses usually has a die plate with a plurality of circumferentially spaced dies.
  • the rotor is equipped with a number of press punches of the press forming upper and lower punches, each die a lower punch and a punch are assigned.
  • the present invention seeks to provide a device and a method of the type mentioned, with which in a simple manner, a reliable and accurate measurement of the vertical position of the ram at each circumferential position of the stamp is possible.
  • the object is achieved by at least one arranged on at least one of the upper and / or lower punch, parallel to the vertical direction of movement of the respective upper and / or lower punch extending scale, and at least one of the scale associated, also synchronously rotating with the rotor reading device with a vertical position of the respective upper and / or lower punch is measurable by reading the scale.
  • the reading device comprises a sensor for reading the scale.
  • At least one evaluation device for determining the vertical position from the read-out scale data may be associated with the reading device (s).
  • all the rams can have a scale, so that their vertical position can be determined. This can be a corresponding number of the scales be assigned to each associated reading devices.
  • Each reading device can be assigned its own evaluation device. However, it can also be provided a common evaluation device for several or all reading devices.
  • a rotary tablet press with a rotatably driven rotor and the rotor paired and synchronously rotating with the rotor upper and lower punches, which during a rotation of the rotor in certain areas along the circumference of its rotational movement a vertical Execute movement, wherein the rotary tablet press has a device according to the invention.
  • the rotor in a conventional manner have a die plate with a plurality of matrices, which in turn is associated with a plurality of upper and lower punches in pairs.
  • each of the punches undergoes vertical movement at certain positions of the circumference, resulting in a force on material to be pressed inserted in the dies.
  • the leadership of the stamp can be done in a conventional manner via guide curves.
  • a main pressing station is also to be considered, in particular, an ejection station, on each of which a vertical movement of the stamp takes place.
  • the pressing force for pressing the tablet material can for example be applied by stationary pressure rollers on the heads of the ram.
  • the scale can be an incremental scale, ie a line measure, which represents a length by the distance of graduation markings.
  • the scale may also be an absolute scale, in particular an absolute coded scale, e.g. Has numerical values at which the vertical position of the respective stamp is absolutely readable.
  • the reading device can be designed to read the scale optically, magnetically, capacitively and / or inductively. Accordingly, the scale may be optically, magnetically, capacitively and / or inductively readable.
  • the reading device can for this purpose have an optical, magnetic, capacitive and / or inductive sensor.
  • the scale can be arranged on a circumferential surface of the respective upper and / or lower punch, in particular be introduced into the peripheral surface.
  • the reading device can also be arranged in a structurally particularly simple manner on a receptacle of the respective upper and / or lower punch.
  • the scale may be arranged on or in the stamp such that its readable section faces outwards in the circumferential direction.
  • the reading device can be attached to the stamp holder at a small distance from the scale. In particular, it may be arranged so that the in the stamp integrated scale with rotating rotor and a vertical movement of the respective stamp also vertically past the reader device and in particular the measuring window of the reading device.
  • a transmitting device which also rotates synchronously with the rotor and a receiving device arranged stationarily outside the rotor can be provided, wherein position data measured by the reading device by means of the transmitting device can be transmitted wirelessly to the receiving device.
  • the reading device can read out the incremental pulses or the absolutely coded position of the respective stamp at any time and supply this information to the transmitter attached to the rotor.
  • the wireless data transmission between the transmitting device and the receiving device can take place, for example, by radio.
  • the device may have a rotary encoder with which the circumferential positions of at least one upper and / or lower punch taken during a rotor rotation can be measured, wherein the vertical positions of the at least one upper and / or lower punch measured with the reading device can be assigned by means of an evaluation the measured with the encoder circumferential positions of the respective upper and / or lower punch.
  • the rotary encoder can be, for example, a so-called angle encoder. It is then an incremental or absolute measurement of the rotational movement of the stamp, in particular the angular positions along the scope of their rotational movement possible. Subsequently, the evaluating device assigns the measured vertical positions to the circumferential positions.
  • the circumferential positions of all stamps can be measured and assigned to the respective vertical positions.
  • the evaluation device carries out the assignment between vertical and circumferential movements.
  • the evaluation device can be the same device which also performs the determination of the vertical position data from the data measured by the reading device. Such an evaluation device can be integrated in the reading device.
  • it can also be arranged separately and, for example, also rotate synchronously with the rotor or be integrated into other devices of the device, such as a rotary encoder or a transmitting device.
  • it can also be arranged in a stationary manner outside the rotor, for example integrated in a receiving device or a control or operating device.
  • Fig. 1 a rotary tablet press. Such presses are known per se to the person skilled in the art.
  • the press has a by means of a drive device, not shown, for example, an electric motor, rotatably driven rotor 12.
  • the rotor 12 has a die plate 14 with a plurality of die holes 16.
  • Each die 16 are associated in pairs with a punch 18 and a lower punch 20.
  • the upper and lower punches 18, 20 are respectively held on an upper punch holder 22 and a lower punch holder 24 and rotate upon rotation of the rotor 12 in synchronism therewith, as shown for the upper punch holder 22 by the arrow 26 illustrating the direction of rotation.
  • the upper and lower punches 18, 20 are also guided in a conventional manner by guide curves.
  • Fig. 1 A filling curve 28, a metering curve 30 and an ejection curve 32 for the lower punches 20 are shown by way of example.
  • a pull-down curve 34 and an elevation curve 36 are shown.
  • tablet material to be tabletted in powder form is filled into the dies 16 of the die plate 14.
  • an upper pre-pressure roller 40 and a lower pre-pressure roller 42 of a pre-pressing station the powdery material is pre-pressed in the dies 16.
  • upper and lower main pressure rollers 44, 46 in a conventional manner, the final compression in the main press station.
  • a stamp pair is in Fig. 1 exemplified a device according to the invention for measuring the vertical position of a punch 20 and a lower punch 20 shown.
  • a parallel to the vertical direction of movement of the respective upper and lower punch 18, 20 extending scale 54, in particular length scale, are arranged on a top punch 18 and a lower punch 20 respectively.
  • the superconstäbe 54 are introduced into the peripheral surface of the respective upper punch 18 and lower punch 20.
  • the scales 54 may be, for example, incremental scales or absolutely coded scales.
  • two measuring devices 54 assigned to the scales 54 are provided.
  • the reading devices 56 in the illustrated example magnetic reading devices, are arranged on the upper punch holder 22 and the lower punch holder 24 and thus also rotate synchronously with the rotor 12.
  • the scales 54 and their associated reading devices 56 do not move horizontally relative to each other ,
  • FIG Fig. 4 The arrangement of the readers 56 with respect to the scales 54 is shown in FIG Fig. 4 shown enlarged.
  • the reading devices 56 are attached at a small distance from the scales 54 on the respective punch holder 22, 24.
  • the scales 54 are so inserted into the peripheral surface of the punch 18, 20 that they are in the circumferential direction of the rotational movement of the Stamp 18, 20 point outward.
  • the scales 54 integrated into the punches 18, 20 move in the vertical direction past the measuring window of the reading devices 56.
  • the reading devices 56 read the incremental pulses or the absolutely coded positions of the punches 18, 20 at each point in time of the rotary movement.
  • An evaluation device respectively integrated into the reading devices 56 determines therefrom the vertical positions or movements of the punches 18, 20 along the entire circumference of their rotary movements.
  • the evaluation devices can also be provided separately from the reading devices 56.
  • a common evaluation device for several, in particular all reading devices is possible.
  • an angle encoder not shown, is provided, with which the circumferential positions of the punches 18, 20 taken during a rotor rotation can be measured.
  • the vertical positions of the punches 18, 20 measured with the reading devices 56 can be assigned to the circumferential positions of the punches 18, 20 measured with the angle encoder. In this way, a complete monitoring of the punch movements in both the vertical and in the direction of rotation is possible.
  • the position data determined by the reading device 56 are subsequently sent to a transmitting device 58 which is likewise arranged on the rotor and rotates with the rotor 12, as illustrated by the arrow 57.
  • the measured position data becomes wireless, For example, by radio, sent to a stationary outside of the rotor 12 receiving device 60, as illustrated by the arrow 62.
  • the position data can be sent to a control device 64, which is likewise arranged stationarily outside the rotor, as illustrated by the arrow 66.
  • press dies of the press may have a device according to the invention with corresponding associated reading devices.

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