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Presentation on capsule filling machine

By Alamgir Hossain

Eli Lilly and Company Capsule filling machine

Filling Process
The empty capsules are fed from the hopper and thru the rectifying unit , into the two-piece filling ring.

the rings is rotated. a vacuum is applied. This vacuum seats the bodies into the lower half of the ring. the caps are retained in the upper portion. The two pieces of the ring are separated the cap-containing portion is placed aside. The body-containing portion is rotated under the powder hopper The powder is filled the capsule body. After one (or more) complete rotations of the ring, the powder hopper is removed, and the two segments of the ring are rejoined.

For ejection- the pressure is released. the closing plate is restored to its original position. capsules are expelled through the upper portion of the ring. the filled capsules being collected through a chute into a collection chamber.

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