AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC CAPSULES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Eugene Rimmel, of the Strand, in the City of West-
minster, Perfumer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC CAPSULES."
Sealed the 18th February 1866, and dated the 17th August 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Eugene Rimmel at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th August 1865.
I, EUGENE RIMMEL, of the Strand, in the City of Westminster, Perfumer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC CAPSULES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in manufacturing capsules of pure tin or any other
metal or compound of metals possessing sufficient ductility from a diso of
metal laid in a fixed mould, engraved with any device desired to be stamped
on the capsule, and formed into the shape of a capsule by a plunger placed on
the disc and forced down by a stamping or other press.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Eugene Rimmel in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 17th February 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EUGENE
RIMMEL, of the Strand, in the City of Westminster, Perfumer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Eugene Rimmel, Her special licence that I, the said
Eugene Rimmel, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Eugene Rimmel, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC CAPSULES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Eugene Rimmel,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument .in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Eugene Rimmel, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that
is to say :-
My Invention consists in manufacturing capsules of pure tin or any other
metal or compound of metals possessing sufficient ductility from a disc of
metal laid in a fixed mould, engraved with any device desired to be stamped
on the capsule, and formed into the shape of a capsule by a plunger placed on
the disc and forced down by a stamping or other press.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is an elevation partly in section
of a screw-press suitable for carrying my Invention into effect. A is a mould
fixed to a bed B.; this would is represented detached in plan in Figure 2,

page_text: and in vertical section in Figure 3. C is a plunger represented detached in
Figure 4 secured to the lower end of the threaded shaft D of the press,
immediately above the mould A.
The operation is as follows:-A disc of metal E, Figures 5 and 6, is placed
in the mould, the plunger C is forced down into the mould by turning the
handles F, F, of the press, and the disc E is formed by the action of the
plunger into the shape of a capsule, as represented at E', Figure 1; the
plunger is then raised, the capsule removed, another disc placed in the mould,
and so on.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim manufacturing
metallic capsules substantially in the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Eugene Rimmel, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of February, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six.
EUGENE RIMMEL. (L.s.)