A METHOD OF COVERING ARTIFICIAL TEETH, AND ALSO DECAYED NATURAL TEETH AND GUMS, WITH A COMPOSITION OR SUBSTANCE THAT WILL ADMIT OF BEING COLOURED, SO AS TO IMITATE THE NATURAL TEETH AND GUMS, AND THAT WILL NOT CORRODE, STAIN, OR LOSE ITS COLOUR IN THE MOUTH
Year: 1778

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
GILLANDERS, of Red Lyon Street, Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex,
Enameller, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-second day of October, in the eighteenth year of His
reign, did give and grant to me, the said Francis Gillanders, His special
licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Francis
Gillanders, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully
might, during the term of years therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and
vend, throughout that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "A METHOD OF COVERING ARTIFICIAL TEETH, AND ALSO DECAYED
NATURAL TEETH AND GUMS, WITH A COMPOSITION OR SUBSTANCE THAT WILL ADMIT
OF BEING COLOURED, SO AS TO IMITATE THE NATURAL TEETH AND GUMS, AND THAT
WILL NOT CORRODE, STAIN, OR LOSE ITS COLOUR IN THE MOUTH;" in which said
recited Letters Patent is contained a provisoe obliging me, the said Francis
Gillanders, by writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular of the

page_text: nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
said Letters Patent and the Statute in that behalf made, relation being there-
unto respectively had, may more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, and in pursu-
ance of the said Statute, I, the said Francis Gillanders, do hereby declare that
my said Invention is composed, made, and performed in manner herein-after
mentioned, that is to say:-
Such artifical teeth as have hitherto been used being made of ivory and other
bony substances, have been liable to change their colour from the variety of
juices to which they are exposed in the mouth. The object of my Invention
is to prevent that inconvenience, by covering such artificial teeth, either in
whole or such parts of them only as are exposed to view, with vitrified
enamel, coloured so as to imitate the natural teeth, and even such decayed
part of the natural gums as they are to supply, which will either corrode or
change the original colour; and this is effected, either by coating artificial
teeth, made of gold or any other metallic substance or composition that may be
found fit for the purpose, with enamel, or by covering such artificial teeth as
are made of ivory or any other kind of bone, or such parts of them only as are
exposed to view, with gold or such other mettallic substance or composition
as may be found fit for the purpose, enamelled and coloured with enamel
colours vitrified so as to match or imitate the natural teeth or teeth and gums
with which they are to appear; and such gold or metallic substance thus fitted
and enamelled ar fixed to the artificial teeth by studds, pivots, or screws
soldered thereto before they are enamelled, or by means of such cements,
glues, or other substances as may be found most effectually to connect such
enamelled fronts or casings to the artificial teeth.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Nine-
teenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and seventy-nine.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Nineteenth day of February, in
the year of our Lord 1779, the aforesaid Francis Gillanders came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late
King and Queen W and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seven-
teenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine.