Specification of Marc Antoine François Mannons : capsulation of fluid medicines.

  • Mennons, Marc Antoine François.
Date:
1864
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Credit: Specification of Marc Antoine François Mannons : capsulation of fluid medicines. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Specification. A.D. 1864.—N° 1073. 3 Mennons Improved Apparatus for the Capsulation of Fluid Medicines. reception of the surplus plastic matter, and the slit being closed by a reverse motion of the key, the same operation is repeated as often as may be required. The bands of paste thus prepared being wound on the bobbins G G Fio*. 1 their extremities are brought down to the base of the closing apparatus D, E, 5 previously opened. This apparatus is then shut by aid of the fly wheel K; and in this movement closes off by pressure the edges of the plastic bands, after which it is re-opened to permit of the latter being brought down by the lever I. This operation is repeated four times, the lever being carried up at each shut-off motion of the closing apparatus. The fly wheel J is then set in 10 action to carry up the free mould plate C1 to its stationary counterpart C, and the plastic tube being pressed, its lower extremity is closed to form a species of bag. The fly wheel J being reversed, the tube comes still further down, and the stop-cock L being opened admits thereto the required quantity of fluid. The same fly wheel is then again turned forward to bring the mould 15 plates again together, and in this motion 25, 30, or 60 capsules, as the case may be, being finally filled, closed, and detached, are carried by the opening M into a drawer placed for their reception below the table of the apparatus. f '* , ^ ^ t r • • SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Marc Antoine Frangois Mennons in the Great Seal Patent 20 Office on the 24th October 1864. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Marc Antoine Francois Mennons, of the Firm of Mennons and Telescheff, Home and Foreign Patent Agents, of Abingdon Chambers, in the City of West¬ minster, and 24, Rue de Dunkerque, Paris, in the Empire of France, send 25 greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto 30 me, the said Marc Antoine Francois Mennons, Her special licence that I, the said Marc Antoine Frangois Mennons, my executors, administrators, (' and assigns, or such others as I, the said Marc Antoine Frangois Mennons, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the 35 term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel