Improvements in Administering Medicines and in the Preparation of the same for use.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 28th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 5th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Administering Medicines and in the Preparation
of the same for use.
I, WILLIAM OPPENHEIMER, of 1 and 3 Sun Street, and 39 Wilson Street,
Finsbury Square, London E.C. Manufacturing Chemist do hereby declare the
nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the forms of medical preparations which are known as
capsules, wafers, pills, granular, or compressed drugs, which are intended to dissolve
in the stomach, and thus set free the medicine where it is intended to operate; and
the object of my invention is to improve and extend the use of such preparations
by manufacturing them in the form of compound carpels, with a different kind of
medicine in each carpel, so arranged that mixture of the medicines will not take
place until the capsule wafer, pill, granule or any form of compressed drugs is
dissolved in the stomach or elsewhere and the medicines are free to mix.
In carrying out my invention, I use capsules wafers, pills, granules or any form
of compressed drugs of any convenient form, such as the lentil or double convex
lens, globular, semi-globular, double-globular, or of any other preferred shape; and
containing two or more kinds of medicine consisting of compatible or incompatible
drugs, which are kept entirely separate by a division wall or walls, formed of soluble
or insoluble substances, which will enable the medicines to mix together when taken
into the stomach.
The enclosed medicine may be in the form of powder, fluid, or solid, as found
best suited to the required treatinent.
The medicines so prepared may be dissolved or mixed in water or any other
suitable matter and taken as a draught, if preferred.
Dated 29th January 1891
GEO. DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Administering Medicines and in the Preparation
of the same for use.
I, WILLIAM OPPENHEIMER, of 1 and 3 Sun Street and 39 Wilson Street,
Finsbury Square, London E.C., Manufacturing Chemist, do hereby declare the
nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to those forms of medicine which are conveyed into the
system intact, and medicines of a compound matter which in the compound form
are subject to deterioration and are only intended to dissolve and intermix after
being taken into the stomach or elsewhere, where they are intended to operate;
and the object of my invention is to improve and extend the use of such
preparations, by manufacturing them in the form of compound carpels, cells or
receptacles with a different kind of medicine or drug in each carpel.
In carrying out my invention, 1 make the compound medicines as capsules,
wafers, pills, or granules, of any convenient form, such as the lentil or double
convex lens or globular, semi-globular, double-globular, or of any other preferred
shape; and of any suitable substance such as a compound of gelatine gum and
sugar or other suitable material which will open in the presence of aqueous moisture

page_text: and containing two or more kinds of medicine or drug of compatible or incompatible
natures, compressed or otherwise.
The medicines or drugs are kept entirely separate by a division wall or division
walls, formed of the same material as the capsule or if preferred this wall may be
made of other suitable substance which will dissolve or which will separate from
one side of the capsule in the presence of aqueous, moisture and, thus release the
medicines or drugs and ciable them, to mix together.
The enclosed medicines or drugs may be in the form of powder, fluid (not
aqueous) or solid, as found best suited to the required treatment.
The medicines so prepared as herein described may, if preferred, be dissolved or
mixed in water or other suitable fluids containing sufficient water for dissolution
and taken as a draught.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascer-
tained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a section of a globular capsule, drawn to an enlarged scale, having an
external wall a, a division wall and two spaces or cells c d. for containing different
medicines or drugs which are intended to combine.
Fig. 2 illustrates a double globular form of capsule containing two cells.
Fig. 3 shows the lentil or double convex lens form, with two cells.
Fig. 4 shows a rectangular form, also with two cells.
Figs. 5 and 6 are further illustrations of the lentil or double convex lens form,
with three cells c d and e.
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Other forms may be adopted in carrying out my invention, the number of cells
being arranged according to the number of separate drugs required to be enclosed,
the principle of my said invention being to keep these medicines or drugs separate
until the proper time and occasion for their combining.
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 I
claim is
1. The improved preparation. of, medicine, so made up and combined in one
cover, that, two or more kinds of medicine or drugs are contained therein, the said
medicines or drugs being kept separate from each other and prevented by one or
more division wall or walls from mixing until the proper occasion has arisen for
their combining substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. As an improved article of manufacture, a capsule internally divided into two
or more chambers containing different kinds of medicine or drugs, substantially as
and for the purpose described.
3. The improvements in administering medicines and drugs and in the preparation
of the same for use, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the
drawings.
GEO. DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.