The GKF 1400 is driven a servo liquid pump. There are product heating systems which is a water bath or a water circuit. They allow the system to have a product temperature regulation. The modular capsule design allows the machine to be converted to one that can also fill powder in a short time. The whole liquid station can be disassembled and then catered away in a different work station (BOSCH 4) .
(BOSCH 4)
There is also an automated trouble shooting system. There is a calibration strip in empty sorting magazines that filter the damaged and deformed capsules before they reach the filling station. There is also a capsule cap scanner that detects any blackage present in empty capsule
(BOSCH 5)
The diagram above shows how the filtering section filters out the damaged and deformed capsules. A missing capsule in a segment bore is detected by a consecutive fault function. The damaged or deformed capsule are ejected through the compressed air lines and directed to a separate capsule container. The capsule body scanner also recognizes incomplete capsules before reaching the filling station. The good capsules cannot mix up with the bad products since the rejected capsules are ejected capsule ejection flaps. The cleaning stations has air nozzles. It loosens the sticky products and the capsule fragments from the bores in the segment and efficiently vacuums them away. The sections ensure that all the segments are clean before they get to the next filling station (BOSCH 5).
The capsules are weighed on a gravimetric check-weigher. The measurements is then sent as a feedback signal where the pneumatic adjustment regulates the pressure of a tamping pin, therefore, correcting the weight. The installed software compares the fill weigher results with the theoretical weight and analyses which capsules should be disposed in case they weigh higher or lower (BOSCH 5).
Work Cited
BOSCH. “Packaging Technology.” 2013. Bosch Packaging. https://boschpackagingpharmana.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/gkf_1400_en_2012.pdf. 26 3 2016.