Packaging of pill bottles
Application: filling and packaging of pills, blister packaging, packaging of pharmaceutical products, push-through-packaging
Initial Situation
When plastic bottles for tablets are packed, they are firstly transported on a conveyor (hinged link chain) and finally packed in groups, pushed into plastic foil and sealed. Fine dust threads find their way into the packaging and thus onto the bottom of the bottles, which is undesirable. The dust clings to the underside of the bottles, partially due to electrostatic charges and partly pressed lightly onto them from the conveyor.
Solution
The bottle floor is cleaned with the STATIK‑AIR® unit. The conveyor was separated from the bottle collection unit and a STATIK‑AIR® unit was installed below the separation point. To transport the bottles over the STATIK‑AIR®, bilateral guide belts are used. A brush is mounted in front of the extractor slit, perpendicular to the conveyor direction, to loosen the pressed-on dust before extraction and for improving suction efficiency. A U-shaped ionization element follows after the cleaning unit to remove electrostatic charges from the bottle edges and the screw caps before the package is scaled.
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