Tablet Press Tooling - Die & Punch

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Pharmaceutical Machinery Tablet Tooling can be defined as tools to craft a particular

shape. Tableting tools i.e., Punches and dies are essential tools to shape any granules

into a solid dosage form by applying compaction force in a compression machine. Any

shape be it round, capsule, animal shape, bullet shape or any special shape can be

obtained with the help of the standard tooling. Now a very common question is what

are types of tooling and what tools shall be opted for the required dosage form. Before

understanding these parts, let’s go through some basics of tooling.

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 Basic Features

 Head: Head which rests on the cam, moves on cam during a compression.

 Head Flat: Head flatness is vital and it’s size varies depending on tooling types.

Compression rollers in a compression machine press this head flat and that’s

whereactual compaction takes place.

 Head Chamfer: Head chamfer is provided to remove the sharp edges for

smoothoperation in cam.

 Head Degree: Head degree facilitates smooth movement in cam.

 Neck: Its acts as supporting part for head and body for fitment and allows easy

movement in the punch bore.

 Neck to Head Radius: This radius helps tools for easy fitment and avoid any sharp

corners which can wear out turret surface.

 Neck to Barrel Radius: This radius assist tools for easy fitment and avoid any

sharpcorners which can wear out turret bore.

 Barrel Chamfer: It facilitates to avoid any damage to turret bore.

 Tip Undercut: Tip undercut acts as a scraper blade for die bore to remove the

stickygranules.

 Tip Radius: Tip radius offers strength to tip during compression as tip need to

travelto a particular length in Die bore.

 Barrel or Body: This part of the tool is used for fitment and sliding in the punch

bore.

 Key: Key is used mostly in the upper punch for aligning the upper punch tip

with respect to die and avoids any kind of rotation during compression to

prevent majoraccidents.

 Groove: The grooves are designed such that dust cup can be fitted to avoid the

contamination of any foreign particles coming from upper punch turret bore.

 Tip Length: Tep length defines the penetration point of the tip inside the die bore.

 Tip: Tips is your actual tablet size and its cavity provides shape to the tablet during

compression.

 Cavity: Cavity is the area where the powder gets filled to form a shape during

compression.

 Die height: Die height is defined as per the die plate bore slot thickness.

 Die O.D.(Outer diameter): Die OD is the die bore slot in die plate.

 Die Groove: This is the slot where the die lock screw is fixed.

 Die O.D.(Outer Dia chamfer): This chamfer reduces sharp edges which can wear

andtear die bore surface.

 Die I.D.(Inner dia chamfer): This chamfer minimizes the damages of die bore

surfaceand easy movement of punches inside the dies.

 Tooling Set

A single tooling set comprises of upper punch, lower punch and die. These

punchesmove vertically in turret bores through cams and compress to

form a tablet. As per international standards, i.e. TSM (Tablet

Specification Manual) and EU

(Euro Standard), tooling specs have been standardized so that inventories

worldwide can be minimized for tablet presses. All international

manufacturers follow EU standards and TSM standards mostly followed

in the United States of America and inJapan.

 Upper punch: Upper punch is fitted in the turret bore and moves

vertically in bores during compression. Upper punches make the upper

cavity of the tablet. It is fitted with key for alignment with die bore in case

of shape punches. For round punches, there is no need of key in upper

punches. Upper Punches travels 5-6mm inside the die bore during

compression and as per the penetration setting done in a compression

machine. Tip Length is shorter in the upper punch compared to the lower

punch. Tip length of upper punch is generally 8mm-9mm.

 Lower punch: The lower punch is fitted in the turret bore and makes the

lower cavityof the tablet during compression. Lower punch tip always

stays inside the die bore hence there is no need of key in case of lower

punch. Tip length is relatively longer in the lower punch as it has to cover

the entire height of die and eject the tablet. The lower punch tip length is

25-28mm.

 Die: Die is fitted in the die plate. Die bore in die is actually where the filling

of powderis done. Upper punch tip and lower punch tip compresses the

powder in the die bore with the help of compression roller pressure applied

on the head flat during compression to make the required shape of the

tablet.

 Tooling Types

There are different types of tooling i.e. D, DB, B and BB types. Apart

from these standard types, there are FS tooling, BBS tooling, A

tooling and Chinese standardtools which are totally different than

International standard tools