Quinidine gluconate sustained medication tablet

Claim 1

A PROCESS OF MAKING A THERAPEUTIC TABLET CONTAIN ING QUINIDINE GLUCONATE SUITABLE FOR ORAL ADMINISTRATION TO CONTROL HEART ACTION WHICH PROCESS CONSISTS OF MIXING ANMD HEATING THREE AND ONE-HALF PARTS BNY WEIGHT OF HYDROGENATED CASTOR OIL AND ONE PART BY WEIGHT OF ETHYL CELLULOSE UNTIL BOTH ARE THOROUGHLY MELTED AND A HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURE OS FORMED, SEPARATELY MIXING FOUR AND ONE-HALF PARTS OF QUINIDINE GLUCONATE BY WEIGHT WITH ONE PART OF STARCH BY WEIGHT AND ONLY A SUFFICIENT AMOUNT OF ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL TO RENDER THE MIXTURE DAMP, ADDING THE DAMP MIXTURE TO THE MOLTEN MIXTURE WHILE HEATING THE MOLTEN MIXTURE, STIRRING TWO MIXTURES AND CONTINUING THE STIRRING AND HEATING UNTIL THE HYDROGENATED CASTOR OIL, ETHYL CELLULOSE, QUINIDINE GLUCONATE AND STARCH BECOME INTERMIXED AND FORM A HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURE, POURING THE MIXTURE UPON TRAYS AND PERMITTING IT TO COOL AND SOLIDIFY, GRANULATING THE SOLIDIFIED MATERIAL BY FORCING IT THROUGH A 12 MESH SCREEN, ADDING A TRACE OF MAGNESIUM STEARATE TO THE GRANULES AND THROUGHLY INTERMIXING THE MAGNESIUM STEARATE WITH THE GRANULES AND THEREAFTER COMPRESSING THE THUS OBTAINED MIXTURE INTO TABLETSS OF THE DESIRED SIZE.