sweetened coating onto the pharmaceutical tablets application_number US 63174190 A description the method of this invention comprises standard pharmaceutical aqueous spray coating techniques and conditions using a flavored coating in particular pharmaceutical core tablets are continuously i e not intermittently spray coated with a thin film coating containing a flavoring agent and a sweetener suitably formulated core tablets are placed in a coating chamber a preferred composition of coating material of an excessive volume to allow coating losses to the pan exhaust and spray equipment is sprayed into the coating chamber until the coated tablets show a weight increase of 0 5 to 15 0 parts per 100 parts by weight of the core tablet weight the preferred method of the invention comprises a one step continuous spray coating process to apply the thin flavored coating thus the preferred embodiment is distinguishable from sugar coating processes in which multiple layers of sugar containing coating are applied each followed by a drying period it is also possible to apply more than one flavored coat or to apply the flavored coating after an initial sealing coat if any coating such as a wax coating is applied after the flavored coating it must be designed to allow taste perception of the flavored coating the preferred pharmaceutical tablet with which the flavored coating of this invention is used contains triprolidine hydrochloride and pseudoephedrine hydrochloride these tablets contain from 12 to 300 mg pseudoephedrine hydrochloride per tablet and 0 5 to 12 5 mg triprolidine hydrochloride per tablet with the amounts of the active ingredients present in the tablets of the cited examples being 60 and 2.