Improvements in Feeding Bottles for Infants.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 12th May, 1891-Accepted, 15th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Feeding Bottles for Infants.
EDWARD HARRIS, Watch Manufacturer, 57 Whitechapel, Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This improved feeding bottle for infants is unbreakable and indistructible in
ordinary use and is more easily cleansed by boiling water or other liquids at high
temperature.
The unbreakable and indistructible feeding bottle consists of being made of iron,
tin, zinc, lead, copper, nickel, aluminium, silver or any of their alloys; also of
india rubber, vulcanite, guttapercha or of any other suitable substance."
The shape or form of the improved unbreakable and indistructible feeding bottle
may be cylindrical, oblong, pyramidal, square, spherical or polyhedral.
Dated the Twenty-fourth day of February 1891.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Feeding Bottles for Infants.
EDWARD HARRIS, Watch Manufacturer, 57 Whitechapel, Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, 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 improved feeding bottle for infants is unbreakable and indistructable in
ordinary use, and is more easily cleansed by boiling water or other liquids at high
temperature.
The unbreakable and indistructable feeding bottle consists of being made of
iron, tin, zinc, copper, silver, aluminium, lead, nickle or of any of their alloys also
enameled or electroplated or of india rubber, gutta percha, vulcanite, papier
maché or of any other suitable material.
The shape or form of the improved unbreakable and indistructable feeding
bottle may be cylindrical, oblong, pyramidal, square, spherical, polyhedral or
discoid but I prefer the shape as shown in the annexed drawings for general use.
The lid or cover of the improved unbreakable and indistructable feeding bottle
may be fastened by any of the following joints.
(a) Telescopic.
(b) Screw.
(c) Bayonet.
(d) Corrugated consisting of one or more segments of a circle overlapping each

page_text: In the unbreakable and indestructible feeding bottle forming my invention, every
part of the bottle can be thoroughly cleansed owing to its mouth being sufficiently
large to easily admit the hand to every part of its cavity.
The contents of the unbreakable and indestructible feeding bottle can be warmed
by the bottle being either immersed in boiling water or by being placed in contact
with flame or other heating media.
Fig. IV shows side elevation of lid and diaphragm as above.
Fig. V shews lid with corrugated joint in section.
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. Being unbreakable.
2. In the unbreakable and indestructible feeding bottle forming my invention,
thorough cleanliness is secured, the hand being accessible to every part of cavity of
the bottle.
3. In the unbreakable and indestructible feeding bottle forming my invention is
a moveable diaphragm acting as a stopper to the bottle and regulating the supply.
of liquid food through the suction tube."
4. In the unbreakable and indestructible feeding bottle forming my invention,
facility is afforded of warming the contents of the bottle either by immersion in
boiling water or being placed in contact with flame.
Dated this 4th day of August 1891.
EDWARD HARRIS.