1. The whole process of filling the powder with capsules is divided into 3 independent operations.

a) automatic sorting of empty capsules into the mold.

b) filling the capsule body with powder

c) alignment of the capsule lid with the capsule body and snapping. In the process of automatic sorting of empty capsules into the mold is quite fast (you will see it in the video) at this stage, the operator can always see a faulty capsule and replace it by hand with a good one. This is fast and does not lead to breakage and equipment stoppage.

The next step is to fill the capsule body (long half) with powder. The semi-automatic takes considerably more seconds to fill the capsule than the automatic. And the principle of powder feeding is completely different. There is a large hopper, it is poured powder (not microgranules) then the screw (screw) powder is pressed down, the neck of the hopper rises to the form and presses the powder into the capsules forcibly. I.e. the powder is not dumped by itself, but is forced into the capsules. In this case, the mold under the hopper neck rotates 360 degrees for a certain time, thus each capsule gets the same amount of powder. Sometimes my customers run the powder under the hopper neck for 2 laps and this allows them to press a certain amount of powder into the capsules. The screw hopper saves from buying a granulator, from granulation technology, from many problems with powder preparation. Also screw hopper is a guaranteed equal weight of powder in capsules, no air voids in the powder, etc.

After the mold with the body capsules and powder is filled, the operator puts on half of the mold with lids and combines the capsules by snapping them. In general, to speed up work and increase productivity, I advise customers to have 2-3 molds for each capsule size. If the semi-automatic machine put 3 operators, or 2, you can make 20-30000 capsules easily. The first operator fills the molds with empty capsules, separates them and passes them to the second operator. And when the mold is free of finished capsules again fills them with empty capsules. The second operator inserts the molds under the screw hopper and after filling, combines and snaps the capsules together