Patent ID: 8293153

Claim:
A rotary powder compression molding machine, comprising: a frame; a rotary shaft rotatably mounted in the frame; a turret mounted to the rotary shaft; a plurality of dies provided at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction of the turret; an upper punch and a lower punch retained in positions above and below each of the dies to he movable in a vertical direction; an upper roll and a lower roll for biasing the upper punch and the lower punch toward each other with tip ends of the upper punch and the lower punch inserted in the die to compress a powder material filled in the die; a designator for designating a molding portion constituted of a set of the die and the upper and lower punches corresponding to the die; a position detector for detecting that the molding portion designated by the designator has reached a predetermined position; a separator for separating a designated molded article ejected from the molding portion designated by the designator from collection of molded articles other than the designated molded article based on a position detection signal output from the position detector; and an actuation verifier for verifying an actuation of the separator based on a movement of the designated molded article, wherein the actuation verifier includes a passage sensor, which outputs a passage signal when the passage sensor detects a passage of the designated molded article.