Guidelines 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.

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.

Also wet granulation of powder is another means used in the processing of your powder. When using this procedure, a fluid is added into the fine particles and then mixed to form bonds in between the various particles. After the bond has been formed, the fluid which is in excess is removed from the mixture by a drying step. This technique is widely used in the powder processing especially when pills are required in large numbers.

The other method used in processing of your powder is called dry granulation. When employing this procedure, a powder particles are compressed and then its grounded. Compacting of your particles increases its density. This enables it to flow uniformly as well boosting how consistent the flow is. This method is used where the particles are very light and also it is very fine to ensure complete compression. Some materials are also too sensitive for the use 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.

Filling up of a flask is the basis for the creation of pills from the device as the flow is very crucial in this process. This creates the need for not only a superb flow but also consistency and uniformity of this powder. Variations of these variables affect both size and weight of a tablet.

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.

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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