Specification of Benjamin Goddard and William Finley : making pills, &c.

  • Goddard, Benjamin
Date:
1870
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Credit: Specification of Benjamin Goddard and William Finley : making pills, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Specification. Goddard Sf Finley's Improvements in Making Fills, Ointment, fyc.' and thereby the pill, mass, or ointments, or other plastic substances is removed from the cylinder. The cylinder can be worked by hand or steam. To make pills or other globular bodies from plastic substances we place on the frame aforesaid a pair of tooth wheels which are driven by a handle or shaft, these wheels are connected to a shaft that has two 5 or more cranks. We also mount on the same frame a pair of rollers with longitudinal grooves about seven inches long more or less, the diameter of which is one inch and three-eiglits more or less if required, to which is added the ordinary pinion gear, which is worked by a catch wheel with catch and lever connected to a small crank or eccentric, 10 thereby giving motion to the grooved rollers. The pill ingredients or other plastic substances are placed in a box above the grooved rollers, and as the grooved rollers revolve strings or rows are formed which fall on the surface of one of the plates, and by the plate or plates moving to and fro they are cut and rounded into pills or other globular forms. 15 The plates are mounted on the framework with grooves at right angles, which are connected to a pair or more cranks by means of two or more rods giving a to^and-fro motion to the plates. One or both may move or one can remain stationary. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1870.
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