A - Human Necessities – 61 – J
Patent
A - Human Necessities
61
J
167/155, 18/45
A61J 3/07 (2006.01) B29C 65/00 (2006.01) B29C 65/02 (2006.01) B29C 65/08 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1236020
1368-723 ABSTRACT OF THE INVENTION The method for ultrasonically welding the body and cap portions of capsules together includes randomly storing the filled capsules within a hopper and moving the capsules from the hopper to an ultrasonic welding station. While moving the capsules from the hopper to the ultrasonic welding station, the capsules are oriented in such a way that the overlapping section of each capsule is presented to the ultrasonic welding station in the same relative position. Sufficient ultrasonic power is imparted to the overlapping section of each capsule so that the desired bonding strength is obtained in order to resist the separation of the cap and body portions from each other, without causing damage to one of the capsule portions. The invention also includes an apparatus for ultrasonically securing body and cap portions of gelatin capsules together with the fill being contained within the capsule. The apparatus includes a frame, a hopper being mounted on the frame for storing a plurality of capsules, in the filled condition, in a random manner. A mechanism is mounted on the frame for ultrasonically securing the body and cap portions of the capsules together with a bonding strength sufficient to resist separation of the cap and bonding portions without damaging at least one of the capsule portions. A mechanism is provided for conveying the capsules from the hopper to the ultrasonic securing means while orienting each of the capsules for positioning the overlapping section of the ultrasonic securing means at the same relative position for each of the capsules. 84,432
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Pace Joseph A.
Vostrovsky Ladislav J.
Scherer (r.p.) Corporation
Smart & Biggar
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