Year: 1898

page_text: I, ALBERT JOANNES TEMPÈRE, of 168, Rue Saint Antoine, Paris, France,
Micrographer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved appliance for the use of infants when
teething and it has for its object to avoid the objections to the ordinary teething
appliances made of ivory, bone, tortoiseshell, metal, or other hard material,
which are liable to cause pain in the gums when bitten too forcibly by the child.
The teething appliance of this invention is designed to avoid this defect and
is accordingly made of elastic, supple, and tough material such as leather of
good quality or other more or less fibrous or felted material which, while allowing
of being impressed by the hard points of the gums, will not become disintegrated
or shredded by long continued biting.
My invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawing
wherein Figure 1 shews a face view, Figure 2 an edge view, and Figure 3 a
longitudinal section on line 1-2 Figure 1, of the improved teething appliance.
The appliance consists of a strip of leather or other equivalent material
provided with a hole for a cord by which to suspend the appliance round the
neck of the infant. The appliance is shown as tapered in the direction of its
length, but it will be evident that the form may be varied and that the hole b
may be replaced by any other means of suspension, or the strip a may be mounted
in a handle of any form made of metal, wood, ivory, or other material.
The strip of leather or other similar material possessing a certain degree of
porosity may be impregnated with any fluid substance capable of exerting a
beneficial or soothing action upon the gums of the infant, and as leather is capable
of withstanding long continued biting it may be so impregnated repeatedly, as
the substance absorbed becomes exhausted.
Dadd
1000
I, ALBERT JOANNES TEMPÈRE, of 168, Rue Saint Antoine, Paris, France,
Micrographer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
This invention relates to an improved appliance for the use of infants when

page_text: teething and it has for its object to avoid the objections to the ordinary teething
appliances made of ivory, bone, tortoiseshell, metal, or other hard material,
which are liable to cause pain in the gums when bitten too forcibly by the child.
With this end in view the appliance is made of elastic, supple and tough
material such as leather of good quality, or other more or less fibrous or felted
material which, while allowing of being impressed by the hard points of the
gums, will not become disintegrated or shredded by long continued biting.
My invention is illustrated by way of example in the drawing accompanying
my Provisional Specification wherein Figure 1 shews a face view, Figure 2 an
edge view, and Figure 3 a longitudinal section on line 1-2 Figure 1, of the
improved teething appliance.
The appliance consists of a strip of leather or other equivalent material a
provided with a hole 6 for a cord by which to suspend the appliance around the
neck of the infant. The appliance is shewn as tapered in the direction of its
length, but it will be evident that the form may be varied and that the hole b
may be replaced by any other means of suspension, or the strip a may be mounted
in a handle of any form made of metal, wood, ivory, or other material.
The strip being of leather or other similar material and consequently possess-
ing a certain degree of porosity may be impregnated with any fluid substance
capable of exerting a beneficial or soothing action upon the gums of the infant.
For example the strip may be steeped in alcohol at 95° (gay-lussae) containing
about one gramme of formic aldehyde, one gramme of saccharin and one gramme
of vanilla, per litre of alcohol so as to render the appliance completely aseptic
and impart to it an agreeable taste, or it may be impregnated with a teething
syrup chloral, cocaine &c.
As leather is capable of withstanding long continued biting the strip may be
so repeatedly impregnated as the substance which it absorbs becomes exhausted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1st. A teething appliance made of leather or equivalent, elastic supple and
tough material adapted to resist disintegration by long continued biting, sub-
stantially as specified.
2nd. A teething appliance of the kind specified in the preceding claim impreg-
nated with a fluid substance adapted to exert a soothing action upon the gums
and serving to render the appliance aseptic and impart to it an agreeable taste
<as specified.