Specification of John Frederick Wieland : portable apparatus, &c. for cleansing the teeth.

  • Wieland, John Frederick.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of John Frederick Wieland : portable apparatus, &c. for cleansing the teeth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Portable Apparatus, &c. for Cleansing tlie Teeth. (This Invention received Provisional Protection, but notice to proceed with the application for Letters Patent was not given within the time prescribed by the Act,) PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Frederick Wieland at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd April 1857. I, John Frederick Wieland, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North 5 Britain, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “Improvements in Portable Apparatus and Materials tor Cleaning the Teeth,” to be as follows, that is to say :— This Invention relates to the so constructing and arranging tooth brushes or cleansing apparatus for the mouth that extreme portability may be secured 10 in such articles, and to a novel and improved tooth powder or cleansing composition. Under one modification of this improved apparatus, it takes the form of a short cylindrical tubular case or holder, of ivory, bone, or other material, externally resembling the cylindrical cases of portable shaving or lather 15 brushes. This case is solid or closed up, immoveable at one end, whilst the other end has a deep head cap screwed upon it. When this head cap is screwed off it discloses the actual tooth brush contained within it. This brush is of the ordinary construction, except that the handle is very short, projecting but a short distance beyond the brush head, this short handle being formed with 20 a screwed end. As this brush lays in the case its screwed handle ends enters into a small recess in the inner face of the solid end of the case, so as to economise length. When removed from its case for use the end of the short