Patent ID: 8894904

Claim:
A method for forming tablets from tablet blanks ( 2 ), comprising the following steps: conveying the blanks ( 2 ) horizontally towards a rotating disc ( 5 ), providing an accelerator ( 14 ) for moving the blanks ( 2 ) horizontally towards indentations ( 7 ) in the circumference of the rotating disc ( 5 ), accepting the blanks ( 2 ) in the indentations ( 7 ) in the rotating disc ( 5 ) in an entry zone ( 10 ), rotating the blanks ( 2 ) from the entry zone ( 10 ) to an exit zone ( 11 ) and transferring the blanks ( 2 ) to a rotating die ( 3 ) of a tablet press ( 4 ) in the exit zone ( 11 ), forming the blanks in the tablet press ( 4 ), wherein above each indentation ( 7 ) is arranged an ejector ( 9 ) suspended from a pivot pin with two flexible metal strips ( 16 ), and in the exit zone ( 11 ) is arranged a stationary ball bearing ( 17 ) that presses the ejector ( 9 ) downwards as soon as the ejector ( 9 ) rotates past the stationary ball bearing ( 17 ).