Konseal Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on the lid of the wooden box reads “Konseal Filling and Closing Apparatus / [PATENTED.] / J. M. GROSVENOR & CO. / Boston, Mass., U.S.A.” A paper on the inside of the lid provides instruction for use.
label: Description
content: Stanislaus Limousin (1831-1887) was a pharmacist in Paris who devised a way of encapsulating medicines in water soluble capsules (which he called “cachets”) in the early 1870s. Karl Morstadt, in Prague, introduced a cachet closing apparatus in 1891, later receiving U.S. Patents 582,021 and 648,594. J. M. Grosvenor & Co., the U.S. sales agent for the Morstadt apparatus, used the word Konseal rather than Cachet.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-13065
label: catalog number
content: M-13065
label: accession number
content: 321641
label: catalog number
content: 321641.036
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Konseal, Filling and Closing Apparatus
label: Object Name
content: konseal filling and closing apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (parts(16) material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (parts(16) material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (parts(16) material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/16 in x 17 7/16 in x 10 3/16 in; 5.55625 cm x 44.29125 cm x 25.87625 cm