Patent ID: 6439426
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
A device for feeding tablets to a blister band moving in a packaging machine, said device including:a vibrating container, which contains a mass of tablets and which features a bottom wall, a part of which has tablets feeding channels, said feeding channels communicating with relative slots made in said bottom wall; conveying means for conveying said tablets along a predetermined feeding path and releasing said tablets into respective blisters of said blister band, said conveying means communicating with said slots and further including: a plate featuring at least two grooves, arranged one beside the other and a covering element, coupled with said plate and adjustable with respect to said plate; transversal wings situated inside respective grooves of the plate, so as to define respective channels having predetermined transversal dimension for conveying said tablets; adjusting means coupled with said conveying means, for adjusting, while said tablets feeding is stopped, the positions of said wings with respect to the grooves in order to change the transversal dimensions of said conveying channels.