AN IMPROVED MEDICAMENTAL AND ANTI- CONVULSIVE TOY FOR THE DENTITION OF CHILDREN
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alphonse Clair Noblet, of Boulevard Saint Denis, No. 1,
at Paris, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MEDICAMENTAL AND ANTI-
CONVULSIVE TOY FOR THE DENTITION OF CHILDREN."
Sealed the 30th September 1879, and dated the 4th April 1879.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alphonse Clair Noblet at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th April 1879.
ALPHONSE CLAIR NOBLET, of Boulevard Saint Denis, No. 1, at Paris.
IMPROVED MEDICAMENTAL AND ANTICONVULSIVE TOY FOR THE DENTITION OF
CHILDREN."
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During the period of the first cutting of teeth the doctors generally recommend a
piece of marsh mallow root in order to soften the gums and facilitate the passage of
the teeth, and this root being as a rule attached around the neck of the child stains
its clothes, and becomes soiled by dust and impurities floating in the air, without
taking into account the difficulty for the child to hold it in its hand when it has
become sticky and slippery by means of the saliva.
Now, to obviate these inconveniences, and to help at the same time to easily
administer to the child all medicines required, I place at the end of a straight or
curved handle of bone, horn, ivory, or other suitable substance, carrying a short
screw at its upper extremity, a slightly conical bone or horn ring, screw threaded
on its interior, and which is mounted on the screw of the handle. On this ring is
fitted a perforated teat of india rubber, cow's udder, gold beater's skin, or other
suitable material, and corrugated in the direction of its length or of its roundness.
This teat receives a piece of marsh mallow root, licorice, or other emmolient to be
spred over the gums under the action of the child's saliva; or other medicine,
which in melting is swallowed by the child, and is destined to prevent or to cure
the affections which threaten it or with which it is attacked.
This apparatus may be made in all forms and materials, the teat alone, which is

page_text: mounted on a ring more or less long, being the basis of the Invention. It can also
be applied to all kinds of toys now in use, or to be made and destined for infants.
Its object is, 1st., the cleanliness in the treatment of the gums of children by
marsh mallow root or other emmolient destined to facilitate the cutting of the teeth;
and, 2ndly, to administer easily to children any medicine prescribed, by onclosing
same in the teat by means of all toys or objects most pleasing to the child.
Patent-filed-by-
SPECIFICATION-in-pursuance-of-the-conditions-of-the-Letters
the said Alphonse Clair Noblet in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd
October 1879.
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ALPHONSE CLAIR NOBLET, of Boulevard Saint Denis, No. 1, at Paris.
"AN
IMPROVED MEDICAMENTAL AND ANTICONVULSIVE TOY FOR THE DENTITION OF
CHILDREN."
During the first period of the dentition of children doctors generally order a piece
of marsh-mallow root to be used in order to soften the gums and ease the cutting
of the teeth.
The marsh-mallow root fastened to the neck of the child stains its garments,
collects dust and impurities from the air, besides the difficulty of the child keeping
the root in its hand when it gets gluey with saliva.
In order to obviate these inconveniences and serve at the same time to administer
to the child well known medicinal means to aid dentition, according to this Inven-
tion, a capsule or hollow mouth piece a is fixed to the handle of a toy A, as shown
by (Figure 1) of the Drawing annexed, made of bone, horn, ivory, or other suitable
material, straight or curved, and having a screw formed at the upper end which
screws into a slightly conical collar or socket al (see Figure 2) of bone, horn, ivory,
or other suitable material formed with a screw thread, and being fixed in the end
of the hollow mouth piece a, and by which it is mounted on to the handle of the
toy A.
"On the screw socket a' the capsule is mounted, shown separately at (Figure 3),
in the form of a dug or nipple of flexible india rubber, channelled in its length or
around it, and pierced with a number of small holes; this capsule a contains a piece
of marsh-mallow root, licorice, or any other suitable emollient which will dissolve
and exude on to the gums by the action of the saliva of the child, or any other
medicament which in melting is swallowed by the child, thus serving to prevent or
cure the complaint the child is threatened or afflicted with.
The small apparatus or improved medicamental and anticonvulsive toy for the
dentition of children may be made in any other form or material. The novelty of
this Invention consists in the application of the hollow capsule a, see Figure 3,
mounted on a tubular socket a¹, see Figure 2. It may also be applied to any
other suitable kind of toy for the use of children.

page_text: The advantages to be derived from the use of this Invention are, first, cleanli-
ness in treating the gums of children by the marsh-mallow root or any other
emollient used for easing and assisting the dentition of children; second, improved
means of administering readily to children any suitable medicine which may be
prescribed, enclosed in the capsule a applied to any suitable kind of toy.
Having thus described the nature of this Invention, and the manner of
performing or carrying the same into practice, I hereby declare that I do not claim
any of the parts separately, which are well known and in common use, but what I
claim is,-
The improved arrangement, construction, and application of medicamental and
anticonvulsive toys made of any suitable material, having a hollow dud or nipple a
containing the medicament for aiding the dentition of children, substantially as
herein before fully described and shown in the Drawing annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alphonse Clair Noblet, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty fourth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.
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