Green Hawk Jersey

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A hard-gelatin capsule filling machine for filling two piece capsules is described wherein empty capsules from a Green Hawk Jersey random bulk supply thereof, in a hopper, are fed in succession from a feeding Green Hawk Jersey station to an uncapping station and then to a filling station and then to a re-capping station and then to an ejection station in a single continuously rotating phase of the machine. The fill for each capsule body is compressed into a soft slug in a die for subsequent insertion into the capsule body during its passage through the filling station.

A hard-gelatin capsule filling machine for filling two piece capsules comprising:
an uncapping station for uncapping capsule, means for compressing a quantity of fill into a soft slug, a filling station for Green Hawk Jersey inserting the slug into the bottom part or body of the capsule, a re-capping station for recapping the body part, and anejection station for thereafter ejecting the filled capsule in a single, continuously rotating phase of the machine;said filling station comprising fill forming means including at least one die mounted between upper and lower punches for forming each slug of fill and for delivering the formed slug of fill into a capsule body through the lower end of the die bythe upper punch;

Thisinvention relates to hard-galatin-capsule filling machines and is concerned with hard-galatin-capsule filling machines and of the kind (hereinafter referred to as "the kind described") in which the fill is compressed into a soft slug which is thereafterinserted into the bottom part or body of the capsule.An object of this invention is to provide an improved, fully automatic, continuous motion machine of the kind described capable of achieving a high output of filled capsules in a given time.