IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE AND PREPARATION OF PILLS, AND SOME OTHER ARTICLES OF A MEDICINAL OR REMEDIAL NATURE
Year: 1842

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PALMER, of Sutton Street, Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex, Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-first day of March, in the fifth year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William
Palmer, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said William Palmer, my exors, adiiors, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said William Palmer, my exors, adñiors, or assigns should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE AND PREPARATION OF
PILLS, AND SOME OTHER ARTICLES OF A MEDICINAL OR REMEDIAL NATURE;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said William
Palmer, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and im-
mediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, 1, the said
William Palmer, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to bo perforined, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following description thereof, reference being had
to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say:―
My Invention consists, first, in a mode of covering pills by cementing them
between two pieces of pasted or otherwise prepared thin paper, or other suitable
material, and forming a covering by two hollow hemispheres; secondly, in the
employment of charcoal as the principal ingredient in lozenges, pills, and other
remedial articles.
I will now, in order that my Invention may be more fully understood,
proceed to explain the nature of them, reference being had to the Drawings
hereto annexed.
To cover the pills I provide myself with a frame A, such frame carrying a
piece of metal having a hemispherical hole A' sunk in it. B, B, B, are rollers
paper and
on the other part of the frame A, to facilitate the movement of the
the pills. 1 also provide an instrument of metal having a corresponding hemi-
spherical holo in one end of it, as is shewn at C, and D is a guide for tho
instrument C. 1 take a strip of paper and paste it, and lay pills on it in a
row at any convenient distance from each other, say half an inch. I then
pasto a corresponding piece of paper and lay it over the other piece of paper,
the pills being between the two, and the pasted sides of the two surfaces of
I then lift the pasted paper and pills on to the
paper are towards each other.
rollers B of the frame A, and bring the first pill over the hole A', at the
same time I place the instrument C with its hole downwards on the top of the
paper covering the pill, and by gently pressing on the instrument C, the pill
will be brought into both hemispherical holes, and then, on increasing the
pressure, the rim of the instrument C will have fastened the two pasted papers
together, and the pill will be covered. I then draw the papers on, and
successively press the remaining pills; when dry, the strip of paper with pills
enclosed is to be brought under a cutter to cut off the superfluous paper. The
instrument employ is shewn at D, D, partly in section. The pills thus
covered are then rolled between the hands or on the table, to rub down the
edges of the paper.
The second part of my Invention relates to the application of charcoal for
remedial purposes. I form them into lozenges in the usual way. I use for
lozenges half of charcoal and half sugar; the larger the proportion of charcoal
the better. The charcoal should be quite fresh, as fine as possible, and a little

page_text: benzoin or other matter, according to fancy, may be mixed with it, to flavor it.
The charcoal pills are prepared by mixing large quantity of charcoal with any
apericut that may be deemed best, and form them into pills in the usual way
The uses are in all cases intended to purify the breath.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that what I
claim is,―
First, the mode of covering pills by pasting or cementing two surfaces of
paper or other material, as above described.
And, secondly, I claim the application of charcoal in the making of pills and
lozenges.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Palmer, have hercunto set my
hand and scal, this Twenty-first day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-two.