Specification of William Edward Newton : manufacture of capsules.

  • William Edward Newton
Date:
1856
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Credit: Specification of William Edward Newton : manufacture of capsules. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Newtons Improved Apparatus for Manufacturing Capsules. enclosed in a kind of large capsule or bag. The plate A is then laid on it, a.nd slight pressure is applied in order to cause the edges of the two sheets of material to adhere well together. The apparatus is then turned over, and the plate C is introduced into the frame B, and on applying suitable pressure the o capsules D, D, D, will be completed, as shewn in the sectional view Figure 4. Having now described the Invention that has been communicated to me ___ * by my Foreign Correspondent as aforesaid, I would observe that it will be evident that various modifications may be made in the form of the apparatus as well as in the form, size, and number of the holes, and the ingredients or 10 materials of which the capsules are composed, without departing from the character and object of the Invention. I do not, therefore, mean to confine myself to the above details, which have only been given as one of the forms of carrying out the Invention, nor do I intend to claim the exclusive right of enclosing liquid or solid matters in capsules composed of gelatinous or gummy 15 matters. But that which I consider to be new, and therefore wish to claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is, making or producing capsules by means of an instrument or apparatus similar in its mode of operation to that above shewn and described, or any modification thereof. 20 In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Newton, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. W. E. (l.s.) NEWTON. 25 AND BE IT EEMEMBEBED, that on the same Twelfth day of November, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Edward Newton came before our Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi¬ cation aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the 30 tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided. Inrolled the Twenty-second day of November, in the year above written. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1856. WM Thodey Smith.