mercredi 18 mars 2015

Operation Of The Pill Press

By Lelia Hall


The need for desirable shapes of pharmaceutical materials, cosmetics and products used in cleaning has promoted innovation of various devices. Among these devices is the pill press. Most branded vitamin tablets have additives and supplements that you just do not require. This press helps you in mixing the supplements and also the vitamins you require for one is specific diet and custom them into convenient pills.

How the press functions depends on the traits of the powder used in the tablet making process as well as how the powder is processed. The processing of powder used by this device can be done in various available ways. One of the methods employed is blending directly. In this method, the blending of these materials is done directly and the pills are created from the powder that has been blended. The use of this method is employed when the pills produced are wanted in small numbers as this method creates very few tablets.

The other method is the wet granulating. Under this method, a liquid is mixed with the powder. The mixing of these two is meant to aid formation of bonds between the particles. After bond formation the liquid which is in excess is filtered from the mixture using a drying process. This procedure is used when need for a large number of pills arises.

Dry granulating is also another method of processing the fine particles. Under this method, the powder is compacted and then it is ground back. Compression of this powder makes it to be denser. This boosts how it flows as well as increasing consistency of flow. This method is usually used for products that are not only too light but also fine to compress directly. Also it is used for materials that are sensitive to the process of wet granulation.

The process by which the device makes the tablets is also affected by how the grind particles flow in a press. The aspect of consistency is very important too in this powder flow. Good powder can be compared to granulated sugar. This is because it has the ability to flow in an even manner and in the most consistent way possible as it affects the filling of the flask.

The flow of your raw materials into the device is affected by the volume present in the flask. So, ensuring the flask is full is essential to ensuring the end products are in desirable shape and are similar in all aspects. Difference in the variables influence both the weight and the shape of a product obtained in this process.

Various powders have different characteristics. Some are large, others brittle soft and even wet. Making a tablet is more like making a snow ball. Both the shape, amount of water vapor and size contribute towards the quality of a tablet. Particles in the powder have to be similar to those other particles to ensure uniformity in the compression of the particles.

Uniformity for your pills is an important issue to be addressed by industries in tablet press making. This ensures a standard final product. Quality is enhanced this way.




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