Tablet and Pill Counting Machines
While most products that are packaged can be weighed or filled volumetrically, the Pharmaceutical industry does everything related to tablets, capsules, or soft-gels by count. Not only are these products counted, but the counts must be accurate. To that end, Busch Machinery offers two types of pharmacy automation systems: rotary tablet counters for tabletop, slower speed automatic counting, and multi-channel capsule counters for higher speeds of automation while maintaining accuracy.
8 Lane Electronic Counting Machine
The model 8S Multi-Channel Counting Machine bottle conveyor mechanism utilizes a bottle stopper device on the bottle track to halt bottles transferred from the previous equipment at the filling position, awaiting filling. Products are orderly fed into the medicine chamber via the vibration of the corrugated feeder plate. The chamber is equipped with a counting photoelectric sensor; the products that fall into the chamber are quantitatively counted by this sensor before being filled into the bottles at the filling position.
Selling Points:
- Strong compatibility: Capable of counting and bottling solid dosage forms or granules, including tablets (including shaped tablets), capsules, softgels (transparent and opaque), and pills.
- Vibratory feeding: Features 8-channel uniform vibratory feeding, a unique flap dividing mechanism for material discharge, ensuring even and stable output without damaging the medicines.
- High dust resistance: Utilizes the high dust-resistant photoelectric sensing technology, ensuring stable operation even in dusty environments.
- Accurate counting: The photoelectric sensors provide automatic counting, with a bottling error rate lower than the national standard.
- Specially designed leak-proof nozzle to prevent clogging, enabling rapid bottling even for bottles with small openings (optional).
- High degree of intelligence: Equipped with multiple detection and alarm control functions, including no-bottle-no-count and self-diagnosis for faults.
- Functional support: Automatic detection of bottle shortage by photoelectric sensors, with automatic shutdown.
- Simple operation: Intelligent design allows for setting various operational parameters as needed.
- Easy maintenance: Simple training is required for operators, and disassembly, cleaning, and replacement of parts are straightforward and tool-free.
- Sealed and dust-proof: Equipped with a dust box to reduce dust pollution (optional).
Application:
- 00~5# Capsules, Softgels,
- Φ3-22 Plain Tablets, Shaped Tablets, Coated Tablets,
- Φ3~20 Pills
- Speed: 10-40 BPM
- Lanes: 8
- Applicable Bottle Type:
- Bottle Diameter 20-100mm
- Bottle Height: 40-180mm
- Hopper Volume: 16L
- Power: 220VAC, 60Hz, 0.8KW
- Gas Consumption: 0.6 Mpa
- Dimensions: 1560x1530x1700mm
- Weight: 480 KG
32 Lane Electronic Counting Machine
The model 32S Multi-Channel Counting Machine bottle conveyor mechanism utilizes a bottle stopper device on the bottle track to halt bottles transferred from the previous equipment at the filling position, awaiting filling. Products are orderly fed into the medicine chamber via the vibration of the corrugated feeder plate. The chamber is equipped with a counting photoelectric sensor; the products that fall into the chamber are quantitatively counted by this sensor before being filled into the bottles at the filling position.
Selling Points:
- Strong compatibility: Capable of counting and bottling solid dosage forms or granules, including tablets (including shaped tablets), capsules, softgels (transparent and opaque), and pills.
- Vibratory feeding: Features 8-channel uniform vibratory feeding, a unique flap dividing mechanism for material discharge, ensuring even and stable output without damaging the medicines.
- High dust resistance: Utilizes the high dust-resistant photoelectric sensing technology, ensuring stable operation even in dusty environments.
- Accurate counting: The photoelectric sensors provide automatic counting, with a bottling error rate lower than the national standard.
- Specially designed leak-proof nozzle to prevent clogging, enabling rapid bottling even for bottles with small openings (optional).
- High degree of intelligence: Equipped with multiple detection and alarm control functions, including no-bottle-no-count and self-diagnosis for faults.
- Functional support: Automatic detection of bottle shortage by photoelectric sensors, with automatic shutdown.
- Simple operation: Intelligent design allows for setting various operational parameters as needed.
- Easy maintenance: Simple training is required for operators, and disassembly, cleaning, and replacement of parts are straightforward and tool-free.
- Sealed and dust-proof: Equipped with a dust box to reduce dust pollution (optional).
Application:
- 00~5# Capsules, Softgels,
- Φ3-22 Plain Tablets, Shaped Tablets, Coated Tablets,
- Φ3~20 Pills
- Speed: 20-120 BPM
- Lanes: 32
- Applicable Bottle Type: 10-500ml Round and Square Plastic Bottles
- Filling Capacity: 2-9999
- Power: 220VAC, 60Hz, 0.8KW
- Gas Consumption: 0.6 Mpa
- Dimensions: 2000x13000x1700mm
- Weight: 550 KG
TC-3 Automatic Tablet Counter
The TC-3 automatically counts every type of solid oral dosage form at speeds up to 2,500 per minute with an unprecedented accuracy of 99.99%. Its proprietary counting sensor recognizes opaque, translucent, and transparent pills, even with center holes and odd or elongated shapes to ensure the exact quantity required is filled – and no double counts. Just select the quantity per bottle and press start using the touch-screen HMI. It’s easy to use, quick to changeover, and proven as a dependable workhorse in non-stop, unattended operation.
Features:
Variable Speed Vibratory Feeder Chute
Air Guide System
Touch Screen HMI
Stainless Steel Product Contact Areas
Height Adjustment to Match Conveyor Height
Upstream Problem Detection Stops Process
No Change Parts Needed for Product Changeovers
Comes Mounted on Casters and Leveling Pads
- Counts tablets, capsules, gelcaps, caplets, lozenges, softgels, candies
- Up to 2,500/minute, 60 bottles/minute
- Max oral dose size .9” x .9” x .4”
- Bottles up to 10” in height
- Narrow footprint 25” wide x 37” deep
- Needs only 36” of conveyor
TC-4 Semi Automatic Tabletop Tablet Counter
The TC4 is designed to quickly and accurately count tablets, capsules, and all human solid oral dose applications. No change parts are required. Compact, expandable, and innovative, the TC4 is easy to operate and very competitively priced. Designed as a check counter, it is ideal for both short production runs and counts verification for large bottling operations. Tablets are introduced through an opening in the rim cover. Guides direct the tablets to the turntable edge where they drop off, passing through a photoelectric scanner, into the diverting/filler head. The scanner detects each individual tablet, producing a count that is accumulated until it reaches a preset total, at which time the diverter head switches the tablet flow to the opposite filling station. Filled bottles are replaced with empty bottles while the opposite filling station is active.
Features:
Full color touch-screen HMI
16” Diameter rim and turntable
No change parts required for different products
Custom photoelectric sensing unit counts tablets, capsules, caplets, gelcaps (clear, opaque, hard or soft) and unusual shapes (children’s vitamins, bath oil gelcaps)
Computer controlled
Special detection circuit accurately counts clear gelcaps
Continuous filling operation alternates between two filling stations
Count rates as high as 2000 tablets, 1500 capsules per minute
Product change and clean-up requires no tools
Accommodates wide variety of bottle sizes-shapes
Smart Bottle Sensor
Stainless Steel Product Contact Areas
Height Adjustable to Match Bottle Height
Air Guide System
- Counts tablets, capsules, gelcaps, caplets, lozenges, softgels, candies
- Counts up to 2,000/minute
- Max oral dose size .9” x .9” x .4”
- Bottles up to 10” in height
- Fits on a table just 34” wide x 21” deep x30 high
- Weight: 75 lb.
- Electrical – 115 VAC, 2 amps – with AS1 Blower connected – 3 amps
Options:
Air Guide Assembly – Smoother product flow
AS1 Air Supply Blower – Clean, low-pressure source of air
Feeder – Automated product delivery
Auto-Feed Control – On demand delivery control system
Hopper Assembly – Large product supply capacity