An Improved Feeding Bottle.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 12th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 16th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Feeding Bottle.
1, HELENA OTTONIA FLODIN, of Upsala in the Kingdom of Sweden, Midwife,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
Feeding bottles as at present constructed are usually unsuitable for the purpose
for which they are used, partly because they are very difficult to clean and partly
because they cannot be left standing in a kettle of boiling water in order to boil
the milk they contain.
Such bottles are generally furnished with a cork or stopper and a rubber tube,
which may both be dangerous because of their being liable to retain bacteria.
In order to keep the food of the child entirely free from bacteria, the bottle
formning the subject of the present application is provided with a flat bottom so as
to enable it with its contents to be left standing in a kettle of boiling water.
Meanwhile the bottle is kept shut with a plug made of chemically cleaned cotton
which is placed in the neck of the bottle. This cotton plug must not be removed
before the bottle is to be used by the child, when a glass tube is inserted which is
widened upwards, so that it fills or covers the space at the neck, and over the
protruding end of which a rubber mouth-piece is placed so that it partly covers the
neck of the bottle.
The bottle is bent lengthwise, or to describe same more fully, has one side flat
and the remainder rounded, the neck being bent towards the flat side, and is
tapered so that no rounding remains at the bend. The bottle can stand on its flat
bottom.
In the bottle is inserted a tube which is curved similar to the bottle itself. This
tube also serves as a plug, as its protruding end is widened, so that it exactly fits
in or covers the mouth of the bottle.
The above mentioned widening may be either solid or hollow. Lastly, on the
outside of the neck is fixed a rubber mouth-piece.
The advantage of this invention is that the child may suck milk, even if the
bottle stands upright, consequently there is no need of having the bottle pressed
against the lips of the child.
Dated this 23rd day of June 1891.
DRAG
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Feeding Bottle.
I HELENA OTTONIA FLODIN of Upsala, Sweden, Midwife, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in infants feeding bottles, and has for its
object a bottle that can be easily cleansed, and that will stand in a perpendicular
position, and also one that will not harbour bacteria.
The feeding bottles hitherto in use were particularly unsuited for the purpose to
which they were intended firstly, because of the difficulty experienced in cleansing
same, secondly because they could not be left standing on their bases a proceeding
which is rendered necessary when the bottle is to be placed in a vessel of boiling
water in order to boil the food contained in such bottle, and thirdly, because of
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page_text: their liability to harbour bacteria through the medium of the cork stopper and the
rubber conveying tube.
By my invention I overcome these defects, as will be readily seen by the
following description with reference to the accompanying sheet of illustrative
drawings wherein-
Fig. 1 is a side view of the bottle with part of same broken away at the top,
showing portions thereof in section,
Fig. 2 being a section of the bottle on line a- Fig. 1.
« is the bottle of glass or similar material, fashioned in the form shown, with one
of its sides a' convex, and the other a plane, for the greater portion of its length,
the neck being concave.
The bottle is formed with a plane bottom or base so as to enable same to be
left standing in a vessel of boiling water, or when similar occasions required it to
be left in a standing position.
During the operation of warming the contents of the bottle, a plug composed of
chemically purified cotton wool is inserted into the neck of same, and is only
removed, to be replaced by a glass, or other curved tube b formed with a circular
shoulder which rests upon the rim a³ of the mouth piece of the bottle, and so
entirely covers same.
The said shoulder may be either of a solid or hollow construction as desirable or
convenient.
Over the upper portion of the conveying tube b, I place an india rubber capsule
or teat e also covering the upper portion of the neck of the bottle, which may be
provided with an abutting rim to facilitate the rubber or other capsule or teat c
retaining its position upon same.
The capsule or teat is provided with an aperture c' through which the food is
drawn by the infant.
By the arrangement described, the contents of the bottle can always be drawn
up by the infant, even when the bottle is in a vertical position, so that the
necessity that hitherto prevailed, of pressing the bottle against the infant's lips is
obviated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. A feeding-bottle formed with a plane side and a curved or convex side, and a
plane base, the convex side of the neck of such bottle gradually tapering towards
the mouth, substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
2. In a feeding-bottle of the form described, the curved conveying tube provided
with a circular shoulder which rests on the rim of the bottle, and the flexible
capsule or teat covering the upper portion of the tube and the mouth of the bottle,
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. The complete feeding-bottle, substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 12th day of March 1892
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, Agents.