Specification of John Lumley and Edwin Lumley : pill machine.

  • Lumley, John
Date:
1868
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Credit: Specification of John Lumley and Edwin Lumley : pill machine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    » J. 8f E. Lumley's Improved Till Machine. The following is an example of the construction of the machine :—A suitable framing supports three rotating cylinders haying grooves formed around their peripheries. Two of the aforesaid cylinders are employed to conduct the mass of ingredients into the machine and partly divide it lengthwise, the said cylinders being of equal diameters, the mass then 5 passes under a knife which is worked by the third cylinder, the diameter of which is about four times that of the aforesaid smaller cylinders. An adjustable curved guide piece is also adapted to the larger cylinder, grooves being formed in the said guide piece corresponding with the grooves in the cylinder. The knife after having entirely divided the 10 mass crosswise conducts it between the guide and the cylinder, and thus ensures its being taken hold of thereby and rolled into pills which fall into a receptacle. Combs are adapted to the grooves of the cylinders for preventing clogging thereof, and the spindle of the larger cylinder may have a fly wheel fixed thereon, into which a handle may be fixed for 15 imparting rotatory motion to the machine. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said John Lumley and Edwin Lumley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th December 1868. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, John 20 Lumley and Edwin Lumley, both of Kirk Hammerton, in the County of York, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-first 25 year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said John Lumley and Edwin Lumley, Her special licence that we, the said John Lumley and Edwin Lumley, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Lumley and Edwin Lumley, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at 30 any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ An Improved Machine for the Manufacture of Pills,” 35