Patent ID: 8911816

Claim:
A method for coating a solid oral dosage form with a coating composition, said method comprising: providing a device comprising a bowl formation holding said coating composition, said bowl formation comprising an elastic diaphragm at a bottom of said bowl formation and having a penetrable opening permitting passage of said solid dosage form and pushing said solid dosage form through said penetrable opening to apply said coating composition to said solid dosage form wherein: said bowl formation contains a coating composition comprising 50%-93.5 weight-% of a mixture of at least two carbohydrates selected from the group consisting of a monosaccharide, an oligosaccharide, a polysaccharide, a hydrogenated monosaccharide, a hydrogenated oligosaccharide, a hydrogenated polysaccharide, and combinations thereof; 0.1-20 weight-% gelatine; 1-35 weight-% water; and a pH adjusting agent and said coating composition has a pH that differs from an isoelectric point of said gelatine by at least 2 pH units.