Claims
- 1. A system for producing solid, pharmaceutical unit dosage forms comprising in combination:
- a. first means for producing a web of edible, therapeutically inert material;
- b. second means receiving said web for loading to said web at least one medicament;
- c. third means receiving said loaded web for fabricating said loaded web into a solid geometric form of predetermined dimensions having said medicament substantially internalized, said form being divisible into a plurality of unit dosage forms, said means including means for forming a continuous stack of a plurality of layers of web and means for densifying and shaping said stack into a continuous rod-like first geometric form;
- d. fourth means receiving said geometric form for unitizing said geometric form into a plurality of unit dosage forms and sealing said unit dosage forms thereby completely internalizing said medicament; and
- e. means for testing on-line non-destructively the output of at least one of said first through said fourth means and thereby assure uniform quality of said unit dosage forms.
- 2. A system in accordance with claim 1 wherein said fourth means includes means for uniformly transverely indenting said first geometric form and means for severing said first geometric form at said indentations to form dosage units.
- 3. A system in accordance with claim 1 wherein said fourth means includes means for longitudinally cutting said first geometric form to yield a plurality of continuous geometric forms each divisible into a multiplicity of dosage units and means for transversely cutting each of said plurality of continuous geometric forms at uniform intervals to form individual dosage units.
- 4. A system in accordance with claim 1 wherein said fourth means includes means for transversely cutting said first geometric form at uniform intervals to form a plurality of geometic forms each divisible into a plurality of dosage units and means for longitudinally cutting said forms to form individual dosage units.
- 5. A system in accordance with claim 1 wherein said means for forming a continuous stack of plurality of layers of web includes means for laminating said layers of web.
- 6. A system in accordance with claim 1 wherein said third means includes said fourth means.
- 7. A system in accordance with claim 6 wherein said third means comprises a pair of suitably shaped, heated, spring-loaded, opposed rollers.
Parent Case Info
This is a division, of application Ser. No. 640,653 filed Dec. 15, 1975 now U.S. Pat. No. 4,031,200 issued June 21, 1977.
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Divisions (1)
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