Specification of Henri Adrien Bonneville : mineral teeth.

  • Bonneville, Henri Adrien.
Date:
1869
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Henri Adrien Bonneville : mineral teeth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bonneville's Improvements in the Manufacture of Mineral Teeth. Chaussee d’Antin, Paris, in the Empire of Prance, and 10, Sackville Street, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 5 Letters Patent, hearing date the Eirst day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her special licence, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my 10 executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, 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 15 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in the Manufacture of Mineral Teeth, and in the Method of Fixing such Mineral' Teeth to the Dental Piece,’’ a communication from Jean Baptiste Abel Duchesne, a person resident at Hue Lafayette, in Paris, aforesaid, Surgeon, upon the condition 20 (amongst others that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, 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 he performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent 25 Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and 30 by the following statement;— The Invention communicated to me relates to a new and improved system of fixing mineral teeth to the dental piece and consists in a new and improved mode of producing mineral teeth. Each tooth is furnished with a hollow of a size exceeding that of the orifice through the tooth, 35 by which orifice the rubber in its plastic state enters into the tooth, assuming inside the internal configuration, and outside, as it were, the shape of a nail head of a pyramidal form or of the form of a flattened cone, and the rubber being properly vulcanised the tooth becomes firmly