Specification of Thomas Bushby : pill-making machine.

  • Bushby, Thomas.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Specification of Thomas Bushby : pill-making machine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    jBushby's Improvements in Pill-making Machines. second machine, and as the shaft r revolves the feeding bar y moves upwards, backwards, and downwards, and then by a forward movement intermittently advances the sheet under the knife o, which descends and cuts off a bar or strip which falls between the stationary and revolving grooved cutters, and is while entering and rolling between them cut and shaped into pills, there 5 being a toothed doctor gl placed across the face of the roller q to remove any pills that may remain in the grooves after leaving the segment. When desired instead of using the roller and shell with their corresponding grooved cutters as before described I employ two grooved rollers in com¬ bination with a knife. 10 In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Bushby, have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twelfth day of February, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. THOMAS BUSHBY. (l.s.) Signed, sealed, and delivered by 15 the within-named Thomas Bushby, in the presence of G. Septimus Hughes, Patent Agent, Manchester. 20 LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1868.