Specification of George Horatio Jones : adapting artificial teeth.

  • Jones, G. H. (George Horatio)
Date:
1876
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Credit: Specification of George Horatio Jones : adapting artificial teeth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Specification. Jones' Improvements in Adapting Artificial Teeth. sixteenth of an inch wide, by a rivet at one end to the artificial palate, which is countersunk to receive it on the side of the spring next the palate. A piece of india-rubber or any other substance answering the same purpose is attached so as to cover an aperture or hole previously made in the artificial palate, by which means the re-entrance of air is 5 prevented. This arrangement constitutes the most simple form of valve for this purpose. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said George Horatio Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st February 1876. 10 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Geouge Horatio Jones, of No. 57, Great Bussell Street, in the Parish of Bloomsbury, in the County of Middlesex, Surgeon Dentist, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 15 Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-nineth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said George Horatio Jones, •Her special licence that I, the said George Horatio Jones, my 20 executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Horatio Jones, 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 25 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ An Improved Method of Painlessly Adapting Artificial Teeth by Atmospheric Pressure/j upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Horatio Jones, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or 30 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 Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. 35 i