Patent ID: 8393476

Claim:
A device for automated sorting of gelatin capsules according to a diameter and a weight thereby facilitating elimination of deformed gelatin capsules, poorly assembled gelatin capsules, empty gelatin capsules, lowly dosed gelatin capsules and single gelatin capsules, the device comprising: a selection disk ( 1 ) being inclined by about twenty degrees with respect to horizontal and rotationally driven relative and above a retaining plate ( 4 ), a periphery of the selection disk ( 1 ) being drilled to from calibrated openings therein, the retaining plate ( 4 ) comprising an opening, in an upper section of the device, located in front of an outlet of the gelatin capsules, and the device comprising a blowing curtain ( 5 ), underneath the retaining plate opening, for deflecting by blowing at least one of the deformed gelatin capsule, the poorly assembled gelatin capsule, the empty gelatin capsule, the lowly dosed gelatin capsule and the single gelatin capsule.