Monday, March 23, 2015

Guidelines On The Pill Press

By Lelia Hall


The urge to come up with convenient shapes of materials used as drugs, cosmetics and items used in some cleaning processes has influenced innovation in a positive manner. This is because some devices have been made to design the shape of products required. This device is called the pill press. Most tablets may contain supplements that you do not need. This device assists you in stirring up the supplements according to your own specification and nutrient requirement as well as the desirable shapes and sizes.

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 .

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 flow of powder into the device also affects how the tablets are obtained and also the uniformity of the products after the process. How consistent the flow of a powder into the device is affects the end product of the tablet production process. The powder should be able to flow in not only the best uniform way possible but also consistently.

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 features of powder differ from one material to another. Quality of a tablet is affected by amount of moisture and the size of particles in a powder. Uniformity is thus crucial in this process.

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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