IMPROVED MEANS FOR SECURING ARTIFICIAL TEETH IN THE MOUTH
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin James Bing, of St. Mary's County,
State of Maryland, in the United States of America, but now residing
at No. 15, Finsbury Place, South, in the County of Middlesex,
Doctor of Dental Surgery, for the Invention of “IMPROVED MEANS
FOR SECURING ARTIFICIAL TEETH IN THE MOUTH,”.
Sealed the 14th July 1871, and dated the 23rd January 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin James Bing
at the Office of the Commissioners of Pateuts, with his Petition, on
the 23rd January 1871.
I, BENJAMIN JAMES BING, of St. Mary's County, State of Maryland,
in the United States of America, but now residing at No. 15, Finsbury
Place, South, in the County of Middlesex, Doctor of Dental Surgery, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED MEANS
FOR SECURING ARTIFICIAL TEETH IN THE MOUTH," to be as follows:-
The object of the Invention is to effect the security and permanent
fixture of artificial teeth in the mouth without the necessity of employing

page_text: plates, clasps, hooks, or pivots. For this purpose the artificial tooth or
teeth are connected to those adjoining by a metallic band or bar or
metallic bands or bars, the ends of which are passed into holes which
may already exist or are drilled for the purpose of receiving them in
such adjoining teeth or their roots, and these ends are there held by the
ramming therein of gold used in "stopping "teeth, or other suitable
cement. In some cases the artificial teeth may be connected to these
metallic bands or bars by rivetting, clipping, or otherwise, or the bands
or bars may be passed through or over portions of the artificial teeth. By
these means are obtained security and strength with other advantages.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Benjamin James Bing in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 21st July 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
JAMES BING, of St. Mary's County, State of Maryland, in the United
States of America, but now residing at No. 15, Finsbury Place, South,
in the County of Middlesex, Doctor of Dental Surgery, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Benjamin James Bing, Her
special licence that I, the said Benjamin James Bing, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Benjamin
James Bing, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any.
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVED MEANS FOR SECURING ARTIFICIAL TEETH IN THE MOUTH," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Benjamin James Bing,
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

page_text: the natural teeth. In place of the ends 6' being turned downwards or
towards the gums they may be turned and passed into adjoining teeth in
other directions.
Figure 5 shows a side view of an artificial tooth and Figure 6 an
under side view of the same, in which the metallic connecting band or
bar 6 is secured thereto by other metallic pins d, d, which I prefer to be
formed of platinum, and which are first secured in the artificial tooth,
and the projecting ends of these pins & are then turned down over a
band or bar b and soldered thereto, as shown by Figures 7 and 8. When
a band or bar 6 has been thus secured to the tooth, or it
be to a
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series of them, it is connected to adjoining natural teeth or parts thereof
by the ends of the bar 6 being passed into holes existing or provided for
them in such adjoining teeth, and by those holes being then filled up,
thus securing the ends of the bar 6 by the ramming therein of gold or
other suitable stopping cement; an illustration of this arrangement of
fixing is shown by Figure 9.
In place of the band or bar 6 being secured to the tooth by pins from
the tooth turned down on such bar, the connection of the tooth or teeth
to the bar may be by rivetting.
Figures 10 and 11 shew by front and side views a modification of my
improvements, in which connecting bars' e, e, which I prefer to form of
platinum, are obtained by the artificial tooth being formed on or applied
to the ends thereof.
Figures 12, 13, and 14 show a modification of this last arrangement,
in which the artificial tooth is formed with a groove f in each of its
sides to receive the bars or pins e when they are turned down therein.
This arrangement is particularly applicable to connecting the tooth
to another bar along the bottom to facilitate the connection thereof
to adjoining natural teeth or the stump thereof, and is particularly
applicable when fixing very short teeth.
Figures 15 and 16 show by plan view and a view from the inside of
the mouth an arrangement in which the connecting bar 6 passes over
the top of the artificial tooth to hold it in position by the ends of such
bar 6 being passed and held tightly by gold or other suitable cement in
holes formed for them in the natural teeth c, c.

page_text: It will, however, be readily understood that the arrangements may
be otherwise varied, and bars so applied to artificial teeth may be used
as means of connection thereof to metallic mouth plates.
Having thus described my Invention, and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise arrangements shown and described, as the
same may be varied without departing from the peculiar character of
my Invention; but what I claim is, the securing artificial teeth to other
teeth, or parts thereof, in the mouth by means of bars applied and held
substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin James Bing, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
BENJAMIN JAMES BING. (L.S.)