Specification of Henry Newman : artificial teeth, &c.

  • Newman, Henry.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Specification of Henry Newman : artificial teeth, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LETTERS PATENT to Henry Newman, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Dentist, for the Invention of “Improvements in the Con¬ struction of Artificial Teeth, and in the Mode or Manner of Affixing the same to the Frame.” Sealed the 18th November 1859, and dated the 20th May 1859. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Newman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 20th May 1859. I, Henry Newman, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Dentist, do 5 hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Improvements in the Construction of Artificial Teeth, and in the Mode or Manner of Affixing the same to the Frame,” to be as follows:— I make the fronts of artificial teeth of porcelain, or any of the other light- colored substances at present used, and the backs of metal; I.fasten these parts 10 together by screws, rivetts, or other mechanical contrivance, or by an adhesive material. In the metal or back of each tooth for affixing is an aperture