Improvements in Pessaries and Suppositories and in the Moulds for the Manufacture thereof.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 12th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 20th Dec., 1890
IDIONAL DIECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pessaries and Suppositories and in the Moulds for
the Manufacture thereof.
NICHOLAS HENRY MARTIN and CHARLES EDWARD STUART, Pharmaceutical Chemists
trading as Brady & Martin 27, 29 & 31 Mosley Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention has for its object to improve upon the suppositories and pessaries
at present in use by making them in a mould or moulds so as to produce them
in the shape of hollow cones closed with attachable lids or covers to the open end
so that they may be used to contain in the hollow space in their interior any medicine
or medicinal substance or food or aliment either solid or liquid desired to be conveyed
to the interior of the rectum or vagina.
Our invention consists in a hollow cone made of cocoa butter or of mixtures of cocoa
butter with other substances or of glycerine and gelatine or of any other material
commonly in use for making suppositories and pessaries. In the substance of the
wall of the cone we make a thread or slot or groove or other means of attachment by
which a separate lid or cover of similar material and provided with a complimentary
means of attachment may be securely held in position to close the orifice of the hollow
cone and so secure the contents from escape and of the moulds for the production of
these suppositories and pessaries.
The first mould for the cones of the pessaries or suppositories is the same as is
commonly in use for the purpose with the addition of a bar containing a series of
plugs to form the hollow and the screw thread or other closing device in the pessaries
or suppositories.
A second mould is used which consists of a flat bar into which has been drilled the
cavities which will form the lids of the pessaries and suppositories with the
complimentary screw thread or other attachment formed in the hollow cones by
the first mould.
The pessaries and suppositories are cast in the usual manner.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pessaries and Suppositories and in the Moulds for
the Manufacture thereof.
We NICHOLAS HENRY MARTIN and CHARLES EDWARD STUART Pharmaceutical
Chemists trading as Brady and Martin, 27, 29 & 31 Mosley Street, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne 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:-
This invention has for its object to improve upon the pessaries and suppositories at
present in use by making them in a mould or moulds so as to produce them in the
shape of hollow cones closed with attachable lids or covers to the open end so that
they may be used to contain in the hollow space in their interior any medicine or
medicinal substance or food or aliment either solid or liquid desired to be conveyed
to the interior of the rectum or vagina.
Our invention consists in a hollow cone made of cocoa butter or mixtures of cocoa
butter with other substances or of glycerine and gelatine or of any other material
commonly in use for making pessaries and suppositories.

page_text: In the substance of the wall of the cone we make a thread or slot or groove or
other means of attachment by which a separate lid or cover of similar material and
provided with a complimentary means of attachment may be securely held in position
to close the orifice of the hollow cone and so to secure the contents from escape and
of the moulds for the production of these pessaries and suppositories.
The accompanying drawing shows the details of the moulds for the purpose of
forming the pessaries and suppositories and the separate lids or covers.
Figure 1 shows the end elevation and Figure 2 the side elevation of the mould for
forming the hollow and the screw thread in the pessaries and suppositories.
a is the plate in which are drille holes with a female screw; b b are plugs with
smooth or milled heads, the central portion c fitting the holes in a and the lower
portion tapering to a round end, d d are plugs by which the mould is centred on to
the mould Figures 3 and 4 for the body of the pessary or suppository:
Figure 3 shows the end elevation and
Figure 4 a vertical section through the centre line of the mould for forming the
body of the pessary or suppository, ee the two halves of the mould, f is a bar with a
hinge and screw and nut m, by which the two halves of the mould are clamped
together, is a plug in the left half fitting into a hole in the right half to secure
accurate apposition, d' d' holes into which fit the plugs d d Figures 1 & 2, k k the
hollow for forming the body of the pessary or suppository and are shallow grooves
to permit overflow of excess of the material used to compose the pessary or suppository.
Figure 5 shows the end elevation and Figure 6 a vertical section through the centre
line of the mould for forming the lid or cover of the pessary or suppository, nn shows
the two halves of the mould, o is a bar with a binge p and screw and nut r by means
of which the two halves of the mould are clamped together, s plug and hole similar
to h in Figures 3 & 4, t the hollow for the lid or cover of the pessary or suppository,
the upper part is smooth, the lower part has a female screw which is the exact counter-
part & pitch of the male screw on 6 Figures 1 & 2.
The pessaries and suppositories are cast in the usual manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
1st. Hollow pessaries and suppositories with lids attachable by means of thread,
slot or groove.
2nd. The above pessaries and suppositories made of cocoa butter, gelatine or any
substance or mixture of substances used in making pessaries or suppositories.
3rd. The moulds as described for the production of the above.
Dated this 11th day of September 1800.
NICHOLAS HENRY MARTIN.
CHARLES EDWARD STUART.