Automatic Effervescent Tablet Tube Filling Machines

All systems completely eliminate destructive vertical drops or gravity-fall counting channels. Tablets are loaded into a vibratory hopper and gently routed through flat screening tracks that line up the tablets in a single row configuration. This overlapping approach removes impact stress, directly preserving your raw formulation hardness metrics.

To ensure seamless row counting and prevent cylinder alignment jams, the raw tablets must have a minimum hardness threshold of above 5kg. Additionally, to prevent stacking errors inside the channels, your tablet thickness variance must be kept tightly within a rigid limit of ±0.2mm.

The entire series incorporates an intelligent multi-point verification sensor array governed by a centralized PLC. If the optical fiber detection flags an incomplete tablet count or a missing cap, the machine locks the cap pressing cylinder for that container. The uncapped or shorted tube bypasses the main outlet and is automatically rejected via a separate discharge chute.

While the mechanical screening tracks naturally filter out small fine particles and powder dust, large structural tablet debris must be checked and cleared from the alignment channels. To prevent airborne dust accumulation, every machine features an integrated 38 mm vacuum connector port ready to hook up to your facility’s industrial dust extraction unit.

Yes, absolutely. While the standard baseline configuration is optimized for Φ22mm – Φ25mm tablets with a thickness of 5mm – 6 mm and a 10 – 20 piece stack capacity, the entire mechanical track layout, counting rails, and cap vibrating disks can be fully customized based on your specific sample tubes and tablet dimensions.

The APK-40A relies on pure pneumatic cylinder linkages for mechanical strokes and station stops. The APK-40B introduces a digital Leadshine stepper motor paired with a Gaoshida mechanical indexing disk structure. This digital power drive delivers much smoother acceleration curves and exceptional multi-station tracking precision,  positioning wear over heavy production blocks.Buy the 40A if your tablet thickness is consistent and your production runs are long. Buy the 40B if you change products often or your thickness varies towards the edge of ±0.2 mm.

No, that will cause frequent line jams. To ensure smooth mechanical pushing and friction-free automated loading into the tube mouth, the inner diameter of your straight tube or bobbin bottle must be at least 2 mm larger than the maximum outer diameter of your tablet.

If you’re making rolled tubes, yes — the APK-40A and 40B push a finished foil roll into the tube; they don’t wrap it. The wrapping is done by the APK-JZ40 upstream. If you’re filling tablets directly into the tube, the APK-60 does it in one machine.

Effervescent tablets need a desiccant in the cap, and the cap has to seal the tube tight. Tell us which cap you’re using and send a sample — cap feeding is set up around it.