AN IMPROVED POWDER OR COMPOSITION AND PRECEDWING TUR TEETH
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Pierre Garbai, of Paris, in the French Empire,
Gentleman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED POWDER OR COMPOSITION
AND PRECEDWING TUR TEETH"
Sealed the 22nd February 1856, and dated the 14th September 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Pierre Garbai at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th September 1855.
I, JEAN PIERRE GARBAI, of Paris, in the French Empire, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED POWDER OR
COMPOSITION FOR CLEANING AND PRESERVING THE TEETH " to be as follows:-
My improved powder or composition for cleaning and preserving the teeth is
composed of sea salt mixed with suitable quantities of iron in solution, coffee,
chicory, sugar, rice flour, saffron, and rhubarb, or with substances possessing
similar properties. I do not confine myself to any particular proportions of
these ingredients, but I have found the following answer well in practice:-
250 parts sea salt, mixed with
15
iron in solution;
33
"
150 coffee and chicory;
250
33
sugar;
2000
rice flour;
"
6
دو
saffron ;
15
rhubarb.
"

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jean Pierre Garbai in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 29th February 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEAN
PIERRE GARBAI, of Paris, in the French Empire, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Jean Pierre Garbai, Her special licence that I, the said Jean Pierre
Garbai, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Jean Pierre Garbai, 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 "AN IMPROVED POWDER
OR COMPOSITION FOR CLEANING AND PRESERVING THE TEETH," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Jean Pierre Garbai, 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 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 Jean Pierre Garbai, 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 following
statement thereof, that is to say-
My improved powder or composition for cleaning and preserving the teeth is
composed of sea salt mixed with suitable quantities of iron in solution, coffee
and chicory, sugar, rice flour, and saffron, to which rhubarb may be added, and
also (when intended for daily use for cleaning the teeth) cream of tartar and
ivory powder.
Instead of the ingredients before mentioned as being mixed with sea salt,
my improved powder may be composed of sea salt mixed with other substances
possessing similar properties, or it may be composed of sea salt mixed with any
one or more of the before-mentioned ingredients instead of using all the
substances mentioned.

page_text: The powder can either be employed as a remedy for, or as an antidote or
preservative against, the tooth-ache, or daily as a powder for cleaning and
preserving the teeth.
I do not confine myself to any particular proportions of these ingredients,
but I have found the following answer well in practice :-
250 parts sea salt, mixed with
15
وو
iron in solution;
150 coffee, either with or without chicory;
250
2,000
6
15
"
وو
"
وو
"
sugar;
rice flour;
saffron ;
rhubarb.
And the powder is prepared in the following manner :-Ground coffee and
chicory are mixed with a proper quantity of rice flour, or rice powder and
saffron in a liquid state is poured over the mixture, which is then left to dry.
The sea salt is next added, then the sugar, and if rhubarb be employed it
is next added; the whole is reduced to powder, sifted, and well mixed up
together. The powder thus prepared may be applied to the teeth by means of
a brush, or inserted into the cavity of a diseased tooth in any suitable manner.
When intended for daily use for cleaning the teeth, then cream of tartar
and ivory powder may be added in the following or any other suitable pro-
portions:-10 parts cream of tartar, and 5,000 parts ivory powder.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as of my said
Invention, the improved powder or composition for cleaning and preserving the
teeth, herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jean Pierre Garbai, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of February, in the year One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
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Witness,
CH. ARMENGAUD, Ing" Civil,
6, Rue Filles du Calvaire, à Paris.
J. P. GARBAI. (L.S.)