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

Description:
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. 
    
    
     DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING 
     FIG. 1 is an exploded isometric view of the pacifier device of the present invention, which is drawn in full scale, except that the cloth blanket is not to scale, showing how the threaded male retainer ring is threadable into the female cap to support both the nipple and the cloth blanket. 
    
    
     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&#39;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.