Improvements in the Manufacture of Chemical and Medicinal Tablets, Pearls, and Effervescing or other Lozenges.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 4th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 19th Oct., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Chemical and Medicinal Tablets,
Pearls, and Effervescing or other Lozenges.
CORNELIUS WILLSON, Chemist and Dentist of Number 452 Victoria Strect, Grimsby,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It consists in combining and mixing with the chemicals, salts, alkaloids substances,
or medicinal compounds or combinations of them, before forming them into tablets,
pearls and lozenges by compression or otherwise, a suitable proportion of the
substance called saccharine, or coal tar saccharine, known also as Ortho Sulphamine
Benzoic Acid and by other names and by Fahlberg's or whatsoever process prepared
or produced or any of its salts compounds or combinations, for the purpose of covering
the flavours of these various chemicals, salts alkaloids or substances or their compounds
or combinations and rendering them more palatable.
Dated this 22nd day of November 1887

page_text: Pearls, and Effervescing or other Lozenges.
CORNELIUS WILLSON 452 Victoria Street Grimsby Chemist & Dentist, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement
I combine and mix with the Chemicals, salts, alkaloids, substances or medicinal and
other compounds of any and every kind whatsoever and their salts compounds or
combinations, such being fluids, and solids or solids, or semi solids or any of them
singly or together, in substance fluid or semi fluid paste or powder and in any order of
mixing. A sufficient quantity of the substance called saccharine or coal tar saccharine,
known also as Ortho-sulphamine Benzoic Acid and by other names, and by Fahlberg's
or whatsoever process prepared or produced or any of its salts compounds or
combinations, and rendered soluble or more soluble by its combination with any of the
Alkaline Carbonates, such as those of soda or Potassa if desired, and with or without
sugar, sugar of milk, starch, gelatine, gums, glycerine, glucose or any other simple or
medicinal substance or fluid or flavouring required or desired, before forming them or
any of them or any mixtures or combinations of them into tablets, pearls of lozenges
of all kinds, and by whatsoever names they may be called, such as pastiles, pearls,
pellets, tablets, tabloids, voice, glycerine, gum, throat, ginger, cough, ipecacuanha
morphia, peppermint, camphor, globules. pilules effervescing, Lemon kali, pate de
lichen, delectables and any and every kind of simple and medicated lozenge, & by
whatsoever process prepared, by cutting, rolling, stamping, moulding or pouring or by
rotation in a pan or vessel or by any other means or process, to cover the flavours of
the various drugs, chemicals & compounds when required to be covered and to render
tablets, pearls & lozenges of all kinds more sweet & palatable.
With some chemicals I form them first into small blocks or pellets and then
combine them with the substance saccharine or its combinations as above described,
by compression, or by rotation in a pan or vessel to produce a tablet pearl or pellet.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
1 claim is
The introduction and combination of the substance called saccharine & its salts,
compounds & combinations with the substances above described & for the purposes
above referred to.
Dated this Thind day of Santambor 1988