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 U. Lumley9 s Improved JPill Machine. the piece K it will depress it and move the wheel I in a reverse direction, and in this manner each stud will produce alternate circular motion of the cylinder E, producing a rubbing motion upon the partly shaped pills and rubbing them into a spherical form, after which the teeth of the wheel L gearing into the wheel I will cause the cylinder E 5 to rotate as before, and simultaneously with such movement the knife k is raised, the sheet advanced, cut off, and made into perfect pills as before, and so on in succession, the operator powdering the sheet to prevent adhesion thereof to the cylinders and other parts of the machine. The cylinder E should have a flat filed on it, as at 8, Eigure 4, to allow 10 the sheet to come close against it whilst it is being cut or divided by the knife, and to ensure the divided strip being taken hold of by the cylinder E and advanced between it and the piece O. Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of our said Invention for “ An Improved Machine for the Manufacture 15 of Pills,” together with the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect, we would remark in conclusion that we hereby declare our Invention to consist in and we claim, the mechanical arrangements and combinations of parts above described with reference to the accompanying Drawing as constituting “ An Improved 20 Machine for the Manufacture of Pills.” In witness whereof, we, the said John Lumley and Edwin Lurnley, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. . 25 JOHN LUMLEY. (l.s.) EDWIN LUMLEY. (l.s.) LONDON: Printed bv George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode. %/ * Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1868.