Specification of Edwin Thomas Truman : artificial teeth.

  • Truman, Edwin Thomas.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Specification of Edwin Thomas Truman : artificial teeth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Trumans Improvements in Palates or Holders for Artificial Teeth. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Edwin Thomas Truman in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st May 1856. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Edwin Thomas Truman, of Old Burlington Street, in the County of Middlesex, 5 Dentist in Ordinary to Her Majesty’s Household, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, 10 the said Edwin Thomas Truman, Her special licence that I, the said Edwin Thomas Truman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edwin Thomas Truman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and 15 lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channels Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for 44 Improvements in Palates or Holders for Artificial Teeth,’’ upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edwin Thomas Truman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or 20 their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascer¬ tain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. 25 NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edwin Thomas Truman, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :— My Invention consists in the employment of aluminum, or, as it is sometimes 30 called, aluminium, either alone or combined with gutta percha, or with another metal, or with both gutta percha and another metal, for artificial palates or holders for holding artificial teeth. By the employment of aluminum combined with gutta percha for the palates or holders of artificial teeth, I secure with great lightness (aluminum being 35 about one-tenth of the weight of gold) sufficient rigidity in the body of the palate or holder to prevent it getting out of shape while the gutta percha surrounding it and coming in immediate contact with the gums, and extending
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