METHOD OF AND DEVICE FOR FILLING SEPARATE DOSE OF LOOSE MATERIAL INTO CORRESPONDING COMPARTMENT OF CONTAINER Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: medicine; filling of container with great number of compartments with powder-like medicine. SUBSTANCE: container is filled so that volume of metered out powder should be less than volume of corresponding compartment of container. Projection is inserted into each compartment and after filling, projection is taken out. Container can be made in form of plate with holes. In this case filling is carried out by placing container on porous base, and loose material is fed from reservoir by gas passed through reservoir, holes in container and base. Device for implementing this method contains reservoir for loose material and feeder 81, 92, 94 for directing loose material from reservoir into compartments. Feeder has projections to be inserted into compartments to decrease accessible volume of the latter. Doses can be changed by selecting dimensions of projections. EFFECT: provision of easy sealing, for instance, by application of laminated thin film. 11 cl, 26 dwg