IEDCOVEYOR AUTOMATES TABLET PRESS FEED:
NO SEGREGATION – NO HEADLOAD VARIATION

Sewell, NJ - February 1, 2000

IEDCO, Industrial Equipment & Design Company, during this past year, has installed over a dozen automated tablet press feed systems at four different major pharmaceutical companies.  These systems have eliminated all of the containment, safety and ergonomic issues previously associated with manually scooping powders from a drum, climbing a ladder and dumping powder into the tablet press feed hopper.  In addition, the new Tablet Press Feed Systems are able to maintain a very even head load on the press, thereby improving and maximizing compression consistency.  Powder segregation is eliminated by virtue of the systems ability to vacuum transfer in a “dense phase” mode of operation.

The new Tablet Press Feed Systems are pneumatically operated and designed to sit safely on top of and straddle the press feed hopper. They are small, easily handled and easily cleaned. Powder is vacuum transferred from the drum, through a sanitary vacuum feed nozzle, and deposited into the press feed hopper in response to a level probe which is part of the IEDCOveyor tablet press feed kit.  A wall socket and a 3/8” air supply is all that is needed. IQ and OQ Documentation is available.