Specification of Thomas Godfrey : artificial teeth.

  • Godfrey, Thomas.
Date:
1867
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Thomas Godfrey : artificial teeth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Godfrey s Improvements in Artificial Teeth. artificial teeth, which base fits into the roof or upper portion of the mouth, and round this chamber I form a raised border or ridge, so that when placed in the mouth the suction alone will cause it to adhere closely to the flesh. SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Thomas Godfrey in 5 the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st January 1867. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Thomas Godfrey, of 17, Hanover Street, Hanover Square, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters 10 Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth, year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Godfrey, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas Godfrey, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas 15 Godfrey, 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 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 “ Improvements in 20 Artificial Teeth,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Godfrey, 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 to be filed in the Great 25 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 Thomas Golfrey, 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 30 following statement:— My Invention has for its object, 1st., to increase the strength and diminish the weight of the body or base of artificial teeth ; 2ndly., to increase the adhesive or holding power of the base or artificial to the natural palate. For effecting the first part of my said Invention I form the base of artificial 35 teeth of ebonite or vulcanite, and fix a thin stratum of gold un the upper