Suppository Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1924
name: label: maker
content: Druggist Appliance Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Aluminum machine with an “Applebaum Suppository Machine / MFD. By Druggists Appliance MFG. Co., Port Richmond, N.Y. Pats. Pending.” Samuel Karl Applebaum (1877-1942) was a Russian Jew who immigrated to the United States in 1896 and graduated from the Columbia University College of Pharmacy in 1912. In 1918, he was producing and selling drugs under the Montauk Chemical Company. In the 1920s he moved to Los Angeles.
label: Description
content: Ref: Samuel K. Applebaum, “Suppository-Making Machine,” U.S. Patent 1,507,303 (Sept. 2, 1924).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Schrader's Pharmacy, through Harry L. Schrader
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302607.095
label: accession number
content: 302607
label: catalog number
content: 302607.095
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Machine, Suppository
label: Object Name
content: suppository machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, aluminum (mold, inserts, rectal(2) material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (mold, inserts, rectal(2) material)
label: Measurements
content: mold one: 1 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 2 1/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 6.35 cm x 5.3975 cm
label: Measurements
content: mold two: 1 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 2 1/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 6.35 cm x 5.3975 cm
label: Measurements
content: mold three: 1 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 2 1/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 6.35 cm x 5.3975 cm
label: Measurements
content: screw: 4 3/4 in x 3 1/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 12.065 cm x 7.9375 cm x 6.0325 cm
label: Measurements
content: screw base: 1 1/2 in x 2 5/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 6.6675 cm x 6.35 cm