Rotary tablet machines (RTM), unlike eccentric ones, have a large number of matrices and punches. The matrices are mounted in a rotating matrix table. The pressure in the RTM increases gradually, which ensures a soft and uniform pressing of the tablets. rTMS have high productivity (up to 0.5 million tablets per hour).
The technological cycle of tableting on RTM consists of a number of sequential operations: Filling the matrices with tableted material (volumetric dosing method). Actually pressing. Ejection. Dropping pills. The operations are performed sequentially in automatic mode. The upper and lower punches slide along the guides (caps) and pass between the pressing rollers, exerting simultaneous pressure on them. The pressure increases and decreases gradually, which leads to uniform and soft pressing of the tablet from above and below. Depending on the type, such machines can be equipped with one or two fixed loading funnels. An agitator can be installed in the loading funnels. The sequence of movement of one of the matrices consists of the following operations:
Download operation. The lower punch 3 dropped into the precisely determined position. The upper punch 2 is in the uppe...
An eccentric machine is a single-position machine in which, when performing basic operations, processing objects (tablets) do not make transport movement. Each operation of the technological cycle is performed by a separate executive mechanism: loading (dosing), pressing, ejection mechanisms. For such machines, it is characteristic that all tablets are produced on one set of press tools.