Show I Su Sugar Coating the Pill Piu Is Special Job At one time time pills pIUs were Impaled one by one on a needle and dipped into gelatin solution then the pinhole pinhole pin pin- hole was carefully sealed Today by an interesting arrangement of ot suction bars hundreds of pills are hemispheric ally coated at one dip and then transferred to a second similar bar where the coating Is completed The mixing equipment for lor a pill batch Is i. like the dough mixer of 01 the bakery The revolving kettles for sugar or chocolate coating coat coat- coating ing came from the candy maker but the machines that transform the doughy mass first into pipes of carefully controlled diameter and finally reduce them into slugs that rolled between eccentrically moving moving ing belts produce the pills are inventions in of or the pharmaceutical in Automatic machines evolved for the purpose stamp out compressed tablets at extremely high speeds and the utility of these machines is such that tha they have been introduced Into many other in A specific example is the stamping of tablets of molding powders pow ders dens for tor use in the plastics industry |