Capsule Removal Device
date: label: date made
content: 1879
notes: label: Description
content: Frederick A. Hubel (1846-1927) was born in Bavaria and came with his family to the United States in 1852. In 1874, after clerking in a drug store and apprenticing to a sheet metal worker, he began manufacturing perfumes and extracts, and thinking about gelatin capsules. In time he became the largest capsule manufacturer in the U.S., with some 150 employees making capsules sold to Parke, Davis & Co. This item is probably the patent model model for Frederick A. Hubel, “Device for Removing Capsules from Mold,” U.S. Patent (December 30, 1879).
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04384
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: catalog number
content: M-04384
label: patent number
content: 223,140
objectType: label: Object Name
content: removal device
label: Object Name
content: patent model