Specification of John Swainson : pill boxes.

  • Swainson, John.
Date:
1863
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of John Swainson : pill boxes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ r ' ’ ^ ? A.D. 1862, December. 3455. Pill Boxes. LETTERS PATENT to John Swainson, the younger, of Newton Stewart, in the County of Wigton, North Britain, Wood Agent, for the Invention of “ Impeovements in the Manupactuee op Pill Boxes and similae Boxes PEOM Solid Wood, and in Machineey to be employed in the said Manupactuee.” Sealed the 5th June 1863, and dated the 26th December 1862, PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Swainson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th December 1862, I, John Swainson, the younger, of Newton Stewart, in the County of 5 Wigton, North Britain, Wood Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Impeovements in the Manupactuee op . Pill Boxes and SIMILAE Boxes peom Solid Wood, and in Machineey to be employed in the said Manupactuee,” to be as follows :— My Invention consists of the improvements in the manufacture of pill boxes 10 and similar boxes from solid wood lengths, and in the machinery employed in the said manufacture herein-after described, by which said improvements great saving of wood and labour are effected. In making pill boxes and similar boxes according to my Invention I cut the wood into short lengths, the said lengths being somewhat greater than the