Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Tips On The Pill Press

By Lelia Hall


The need for creation of goods used as medicine and cleaning agents in desirable shapes has prompted creativity in device making. This has brought about invention of mechanical devices used in designing these goods into specified shapes and sizes. This device is called the pill press. It is used to mix the required ingredients in a specific process like vitamin making. It also designs the resulting product into the required size and shapes.

Features of the powder used in this pill creation process affects how the device operates as well as its final product. There are various ways of processing this powder. One is the direct blending. This is where a powder is blended directly and tablets obtained thereafter. This method produces a small number of pills and .

Another way of powder processing is through the process of wet granulating. Under this method, a liquid is added into the grind particles and the mixture is then stirred in order to form bonds between particles. After the formation of a bond, the excess of this liquid is then separated from the mixture by a drying step. This is the most used technique in processing the powder for making the various pills required.

Dry granulation is also a method used in processing of the powder to be used in a pill device. When using this method the material particles is compacted together and the resultant product ground back. This boosts the density of your product. How uniform and consistent the flow of this material is, is influenced by the density of materials used. Where the materials are less dense as well as fine in nature, this process is applied. Where sensitivity of a material is also high this method can be employed.

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 basis of coming up with a pill on a press tablet depends on filling of your flask. This shows how important the flow is during the process. It calls for an excellent flow as well as for uniformity in density of the product. Variation in the volume as well as density will lead to variations in both weight and shape of pills produced.

The traits of your powder normally vary from one item to the other one. The amount of water vapor present, shape of particles their size affects the quality of pills produced in the process. The denser and uniform the particles are, the quality the end products of this production process will be.

Both the density and uniformity of such tablets is a crucial issue that should be emphasized by the industries during the designing of a press. This ensures a uniform end product is created. Quality is thus boosted in this process as there will be a standard final output with desirable shape and size.




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