Specification of Henry Gilbert : connecting and supporting artificial teeth.

  • Gilbert, Henry
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of Henry Gilbert : connecting and supporting artificial teeth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1854 .N° 493. Connecting and Supporting Artificial Teeth. (This Invention received Provisional Protection, but notice to proceed with the application for Letters Patent was not given within the time prescribed by the Act.) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Gilbert at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st March 1854. I, Henry Gilbert, of Suffolk Street, Pall Mall East, in the County of Middlesex, Dentist and Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of the said In- 5 vention for “ Improvements in Connecting and Supporting Artificial Teeth ” to be as follows:— I cover springs of steel or other suitable material which are to be employed for connecting and supporting the upper and lower sets of teeth with prepared gutta percha or prepared india-rubber separately or combined. I also, in some 10 cases, apply a thin coating of gold by the electrotype process to the exterior of the india-rubber or gutta percha covering. I also construct springs for the above-mentioned purpose of steel covered by a thin coating of gold applied by the electrotype process. I also construct springs for the above-mentioned purpose, of solid or tubular form, of prepared india-rubber or gutta percha 15 separately or combined. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1854.
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