S. Limousin Apparatus for Capsuling Medicaments
date: label: Date made
content: 1879
label: patent date
content: 1879-06-03
name: label: maker
content: Limousin and Company
label: inventor
content: Limousin, Stanislas
notes: label: Description
content: Wood box with hinged lid and dividers, and inscription that reads “PROCEDE LIMOUSIN BTE S. C. D. G. / PARIS / PATENT-MEDICIN / OBLATE / SL.” The box contains: one rectangular wood plate with 12 perforations of various diameters and one round ceramic dish with felt pad inside; two wood reversible stamps with concave faces at each end and of differing diameters; two metal funnels of differing diameters. An embossed round metal embedded in wood plate reads: “Patent Number 216,197; Patented June 3, 1879; Application filed April 16, 1879.”
label: Description
content: Stanislaus Limousin (1831-1887) was a French pharmacist and inventor.
label: Description
content: Ref: Stanilaus A. A. Limousin, “Improvement in Processes of Capsuling Medicaments,” U. S. Patent 173,226 (Feb. 8, 1876).
label: Description
content: Stanislaus Limousin, “Improvement in Apparatus for Capsuling Medicaments,” U.S. Patent 216,197 (June 3, 1879).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04381
label: catalog number
content: M-04381
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 216,197
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cachet Apparatus
label: Object Name
content: cachet apparatus, patent model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (?? material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (parts(6) material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.5 cm x 26 cm x 23.7 cm; 2 3/16 in x 10 1/4 in x 9 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 10 1/4 in x 9 in; 5.715 cm x 26.035 cm x 22.86 cm