Rotary Die Encapsulating Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1931
name: label: maker
content: Scherer, Robert Pauli
notes: label: Description
content: Robert Pauli Scherer (1907-1960) received a chemical engineering degree from the University of Michigan in 1930, and, in 1933, established the R. P. Scherer Corp. in Detroit, Mich. Using machinery that Scherer devised, that firm became the world’s largest supplier of soft gel capsules. This is an early experimental model of Scherer’s machine.
label: Description
content: Ref: Robert P. Scherer, “Apparatus for Forming and Filling Capsules,” U.S. Patent 2,288,327 (June 30, 1942).
label: Description
content: “Capsule Pioneer Dies at 53,” Detroit Free Press (July 28, 1960), p. 24.
label: Description
content: “Robert Scherer, Inventor, 53, Dies,” New York Times (July 29, 1960), p. 25.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine; Pharmacy
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of R. P. Scherer Corporation, Gelatin Products Division
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06807
label: catalog number
content: M-06807
label: accession number
content: 205238
objectType: label: Object Name
content: rotary die encapsulating machine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 41 1/2 in x 13 in; 91.44 cm x 105.41 cm x 33.02 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 42 in x 16 in x 37 in; 106.68 cm x 40.64 cm x 93.98 cm