Pacifier with a cloth handle

A pacifier clamped to a cloth handle by two interconnected members, one on each side of the cloth.

FIELD OF INVENTION 
This invention relates to pacifiers for small children, i.e., rubber 
nipples resembling the standard nipples on baby bottles which young 
children to chew upon for enjoyment. 
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION 
Most pacifiers consist of a nipple and some type of support assembly such 
as a plastic handle which both provides the child with a means to grasp 
the nipple and prevents the child from swallowing the nipple. 
Nipples are fabricated of some type of non-porous, rubbery material such as 
latex upon which the child can safely chew.

SUMMARY OF INVENTION 
The invention is shown in FIG. 1 and 2. The invention consists of a 
specially manufactured pacifier nipple attached to a soft, towel like 
cloth. The cloth in this invention serves the same purpose as the plastic 
handle assembly of the typical pacifier 1, i.e., it provides the child 
with a convenient means to grasp the nipple and it prevents the child from 
swallowing the nipple. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT 
A child's pacifier device in accordance with the present invention is 
identified in FIGS. 1 and 2 by the numeral 10 and includes a nipple 12 
attached to a cloth blanket 14. The exploded view presented in FIG. 1 
shows how both the blanket and the nipple are clamped in place by 
threading the male retaining ring into the female cap. Both the threaded 
retaining ring 16 and the cap 18 are fabricated of a resilient, non-toxic 
plastic. The nipple is solid silicon rubber. The cloth blankets come in 
various styles and colors. Blankets are interchangeable and a new blanket 
may be installed while the original blanket is being cleaned. 
The nipple 12 is part of a solid nipple assembly 20 with a disc-shaped base 
22 fabricated, such that said disc-shaped base is attached to the mounting 
end 24 of the nipple, and with the flat surface 26 of the disc-shaped base 
perpendicular to the longitudinal axis 28 of the nipple, such that said 
nipple assembly may be secured in place by clamping to the disc-shaped 
base. 
The nipple assembly 20 with the disc-shaped base 22 is secured to the cloth 
blanket 14 by the threaded female cap 18 having internal threads 32 and 
the threaded male retaining ring 16 having external threads 34, the former 
being similar to the threaded female cap used to secure a nipple to a 
standard baby bottle assembly and the latter resembling the threaded 
portion of the bottle of a standard baby bottle assembly. 
The blanket or cloth 14 has front and back surfaces or sides 14F and 14B. 
The cap 18 has a front annular shoulder 40 circumscribing an opening 41, 
and the base 22 has an annular outer rim 42 surrounding 8 a raised inner 
ridge 44 which extends forwardly toward the sucking end of the nipple 12. 
As shown in FIG. 1, the outer diameter of the ridge 44 is approximately 
equal to the inner diameter of the opening 41, and the axial lengths of 
the ridge 44 and the shoulder 40 are approximately equal. When the nipple 
and the base are brought together in the assembly 20, the ridge fits 
snugly within the opening by the shoulder, the shoulder mates against the 
rim, and the front surface of the ridge is flush with the front surface of 
the shoulder. Also, the cap has a skirt 46 which is of substantially the 
same length as the length of the ring 16 so that the ring fits 
substantially completely within the cap when the ring is fully threaded 
into the cap.