Improvements in Nursing Bottles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Nov., 1897-Accepted, 29th Jan., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Nursing Bottles.
We, JAMES CONNER ROACH, Dramatic Author, of Bay 10th Bath Beach, in the
County of Kings, and RICHARD JOSEPH KEEFFE, Clergyman, of 329 W. 42nd Street,
New York City, both in the County & State of New York, United States of
America, 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 nursing bottles; the object thereof
being to supply an article of this character which is so constructed as to prevent
injury to a child while using it. Children sometimes swallow the detachable
rubber nipples common to nursing bottles. They also frequently take into the
stomach, large quantities of air from the body of the bottle. Our invention com-
prises means for preventing the accidental removal of the rubber nipple from the
neck of the bottle and also prevents the discharge of injurious quantities of air
from the bottle body.
The invention will be hereinafter fully described and specifically set forth in
the annexed claims.
In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification:
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of our improved bottle; and
Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional elevation thereof.
In the practice of our invention, we employ a rectangular or other suitable
shaped bottle body, A, this said body having two openings a leading therefrom
which are respectively connected to diverging channels B of the bottle neck B.
This said neck is supplied at its upper end with a flange which engages with a
rubber nipple C. This said nipple has formed integrally therewith, two cords e
and they are connected to a ring D. All of these said parts are permanently
attached to each other so that when the ring D is forced over the neck of the
bottle, the nipple forms practically a part of the bottle, and although it can be
detached from the flange b by force it cannot be entirely detached from the bottle,
thus it will be an impossibility for a child to swallow a nipple connected in this
manner, while at the same time, for purposes of cleaning, the nipple can be prac-
tically disconnected from the bottle by passing it through the aperture A¹ in the
direction of the arrow 1.
In the operation and use of this device, the channels B¹, owing to their con-
tracted proportions are always filled with milk while the bottle is placed in the
horizontal position commonly used for feeding a reclining child; therefore, the
child cannot draw injurious quantities of air from the body of the bottle.
The peculiar shape of our bottle also makes it a very easy bottle for the child
to handle as the tubular channels B are of such a size that they can be readily
grasped by the hand of a small child.
We do not confine ourselves to the specific details of design or construction as
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page_text: herein shown and described, as it is obvious that under the scope of our invention
we are entitled to slight variations.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is: -
1. As a new article of manufacture, a nursing bottle having a passage or open-
ing therethrough, in combination with a ring adapted to engage the neck of the
bottle, said ring having flexible cords extended therefrom connected to a nipple
adapted to pass through said opening and engage the mouth of the bottle, said
ring, cords and nipple being integral, thereby forming a loop attachment of the
nipple to the bottle, substantially as shown and described.
2. In a nursing bottle of the character described and embodying an aperture
through the upper portion thereof a nipple adapted to engage the mouth of
the bottle and provided with flexible cords extended from opposite sides thereof
and attached to an elastic ring adapted to engage the neck of the bottle, said cords
passing through the aperture, and the nipple, ring and cords being integral,
whereby the said nipple is secured in engagement with the body of the bottle and
the neck thereof, substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 29th day of November 1897.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.