Patent AT-E401271-T1: [Translated] CONVEYING DEVICE FOR OBJECTS OF SOLID OR GEL-LIKE CONSISTENCY AND METHOD FOR PROMOTING SUCH OBJECTS

The sorter for pharmaceutical tablets or pills (9) comprises a rotating drum (110) mounted at an angle to the horizontal, so that the tablets collect at its lower wall. They then fall though a hole in its base (111) and are held (6, 7) between this and a lower plate (130) as the drum rotates until they reach a cut-out section in it,, when they fall out (8) of the sorter.