Patent ID: 7971727

Claim:
A feed and sorting device for tablets, capsules or dragées, comprising: a number of vertically extending filling tubes, each tube having a guiding channel for tablets, capsules or dragées; and a blocking slide unit for temporarily blocking the guiding channels of the filling tubes, the blocking slide unit comprising: a base plate with through-openings for the filling tubes; a lower retaining plate, above which the base plate is arranged and to which at least one fastening means for fastening the base plate to the lower retaining plate is attached, the fastening means including a locking projection, and wherein a locking and release opening in the base plate is assigned to the locking projection in such a way that, by shifting the lower retaining plate relative to the base plate, the lower retaining plate is either detachable from the base plate or lockable on the base plate; and a plurality of blocking fingers designed as integral parts of the base plate and horizontally extending into the through-openings, each blocking finger being assigned to one of the filling tubes.