IMPROVEMENTS IN ARTIFICIAL TEETH
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Anne Abbey Downes, of Stonnall, in the County
of Stafford, Spinster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ARTIFICIAL
TEETH."
Sealed the 18th March 1864, and dated the 21st September 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Anne Abbey Downes at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition, on the
21st September 1863.
I, ANNE ABBEY DOWNES, of Stonnall, in the County of Stafford, Spinster,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS. IN
ARTIFICIAL TEETH," to be as follows:-
My Invention refers to mineral teeth, in which a groove or channel is
formed to receive metal, in order to the teeth being secured to a plate or other.
medium for being placed in the mouth of the wearer.
My Invention consists in inserting pins, studs, or bars of metal transversely
to the tooth or at right angles to the groove, and in embedding or inserting
the ends of such pins under the sides of the groove. Instead of pins I some-
times use wire and bend it to and fro across the groove, and embed the loops
formed in turning the wire under the sides of the groove. Again, in some
cases, instead of carrying the pins or wires entirely across the groove I insert
the ends or loops under the sides of the groove, and leave a portion only

page_text: protruding or extending partly across the groove; I also sometimes take a bar
or plate of metal with ribs protruding from each side, and embed or insert the
ends of the ribs on each side under the sides of the groove.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Anne Abbey Downes in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 21st March 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANNE
ABBEY DOWNES, of Stonnal, in the County of Stafford, Spinster, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Anne Abbey Downes, Her special licence that I, the said Anne
Abbey Downes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Anne Abbey Downes, 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 ARTIFICIAL TEETH," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Anne Abbey Downes, 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 Anne Abbey Downes, 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 Invention refers to mineral teeth, in which a groove or channel is
formed to receive metal in order to the teeth being secured to a plate or other
medium for being placed in the mouth of the wearer.
My Invention consists in inserting pins, studs, or bars of metal transversely
to the tooth in every separate tooth or at right angles to the groove, and in

page_text: embedding or inserting the ends of such pins under the sides of the groove.
Instead of pins I sometimes use wire, and bend it to and fro across the groove
and embed the loops formed in turning the wire under the sides of the groove.
Again, in some cases, instead of carrying the pins or wires entirely across the
groove I insert the ends or loops under the sides of the groove, and leave a
portion only protruding or extending partly across the groove. I also some-
times take a bar or plate of metal with ribs protruding from each side, and
embed or insert the ends of the ribs on each side under the sides of the
groove.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First, inserting pins, studs, or bars of metal across and embedding the ends
of the same under the sides of the groove in every separate mineral tooth, and
that whether such pins, studs, or bars be carried entirely or only partly across
such groove.
Second, inserting a continuous wire in such groove, and embedding the
loops formed in bending the same across the groove under the sides thereof.
And, third, inserting in such groove a bar or plate parallel to the groove,
with arms or pins projecting from the sides thereof, the ends of which are
embedded under the sides of the groove.
In witness whereof, I, the said Anne Abbey Downes, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of March, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-four.
ANNE ABBEY DOWNES. (L.S.)