Improvements in Apparatus for Making or Rolling into a Globular Shape Pills and the like for Medicinal or other Purposes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1888
Complete Left, 2nd May, 1888
Complete Accepted, 22nd June, 1888
Improvements in Apparatus for Making or Rolling into a Globular
Shape Pills and the like for Medicinal or other Purposes.
I, FREDERICK DANIEL DELF of 50 Westgate, Dewsbury, in the County of York,.
Manufacturing Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The invention has for its object, an apparatus applicable for making or rolling pills
of any required size, the said apparatus being adjustable, so that globular articles of
larger or smaller diameter can be made or rolled. The invention is not, however,
limited to making pills for medicinal purposes, as it is also applicable for rolling into a
sphorical shape, sweetmeats and other globular articles.
In carrying out the invention, I provide a flat surface or plate, which is adjustable
as regards its distance from the table or plate on which the blocks or pieces to he
rolled into pills, are placed. This plate is provided with an adjustment screw or rod,
passing through a nut or collar attached to or forming part of a frame or casing, which
is intended to rest upon the table on which the pills are rolled. The said frame pre-
ferably surrounds the flat plate, the latter being adjustable as regards its height from
the table by means of the screw. The screw can be locked in any desired position, by
means of a lock nut, and is furnished with a suitable handle to facilitate turning. If
a rod is provided instead of a screw, stops or their equivalent may be used for holding
the plate at any desired height, or the plate itself could be provided with screw
threads cut on its periphery, engaging threads on the inside face of the frame or
case.
The mode of action is as follows :-
The pieces or blocks to be made into pills are placed on the table within the frame,
the plate having been adjusted to the required distance from the table, so as to form
pills of the desired size. A rotary or circular motion is imparted by the hand to the
apparatus, which gives a rounded form to the pills, between the table and the plate, and
finishes them to a uniform size. If pills are required of smaller or larger diameter,
the plate is brought nearer to or further from the table as the case may be.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co..
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.

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Improvements in Apparatus for Making or Rolling into a Globular
Shape Pills and the like for Medicinal or other Purposes.
I, FREDERICK DANIEL DELF of 50, Westgate, Dewsbury, in the County of York,
Manufacturing Chemist 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:-
The invention has for its object, an apparatus applicable for making or rolling pills
of any required size, the said apparatus being adjustable, so that globular articles of
larger or smaller diameter can be made or rolled. The invention is not, however,
limited to making pills, as it is also applicable for rolling into a spherical shape,
sweetmeats, and other globular articles.
The invention may be described by reference to the drawing, which is a sectional 1
elevation of my improved apparatus.
I provide a flat surface or plate A, which is adjustable as regards its distance from
the surface of the table or plate B on which the blocks or pieces to be rolled into pills,
are placed, or against which they rest. This plate is provided with an adjustment screw
or rod C. The said rod passes through a nut or collar D, carried preferably by a
bridge picce D¹ attached to or forming part of a frame or curb E, which is intended
to rest upon or against the table B. on which the pills F are rolled. The said curb E
preferably surrounds the flat plate A, the latter being adjustable as regards its distanco
from the table B, by means of the screw C. Tlie screw can be locked in any desired
-position, by means of a lock-nut C, and it is furnished with a suitable handle to 2
facilitate turning. If a plain rod be provided instead of a screw, stops or thoir
equivalent may be used for holding the plate at any desired height, or the plate itself
could be provided with screw threads cut on its periphery, engaging threads on the
inside face of the frame or curb. E.
The mode of action is as follows:-
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The pieces or blocks to be made into pills are placed upon or against the table or
plate B within the curb E, the plate A having been adjusted to the required distance
from the said table, so as to form pills of the desired size. A rotary or circular motion
is imparted by the hand to the apparatus, which gives a rounded form to the pills,
between the table B and the plate A, and finishes them to an approximately uniform 3
size. If pills are required of smaller or larger diameter, the plate A is brought nearer
to, or further from the table B, as the case may be.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. An apparatus for rolling pills and the like, into a globular shape, consisting of a
preferably cylindrical curb, and a plate contained therein, parallel to the plane of the
lower edge thereof, and adjustable in a direction perpendicular to said plane, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose described.
2. The adjustable apparatus as a whole, substantially as described and shown, for
forming globular pills, and like articles of any required size.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.