Specification of Henry Newman : artificial teeth, &c.

  • Newman, Henry.
Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Provisional Newmans Improvements in the Construction of Artificial Teeth, §c. through which is passed longitudinally or otherwise a stud or pin fastened in the frame. Teeth so made can be easily repaired, and they are not liable to be broken bv sudden contact with a hard substance. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Henry Newman in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5 19th November 1859. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Henry Newman, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Dentist, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord 10 One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry Newman, Her special license that I, the said Henry Newman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Newman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at 15 any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Im¬ provements in the Construction op Artipicial Teeth, and in the Mode or 20 Manner op Appixing the same to the Frame,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Newman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same 25 to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Newman, 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 follow- 30 ing statement (that is to say) :— My improvements in dentistry relate to the construction and mode of affixing to the frame artificial teeth; by the former they are strengthened or supported, and enabled to resist or sustain sudden pressure or contact with hard substances ; by the latter any or every tooth in a case can be removed 35