Improvements in INFANTS' FEEDING BOTTLES, AND IN CAPS OR COVERS FOR THE SAME.
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Francis Lynch, of Aldersgate Street, in
the City of London, for the Invention of "Improvements in INFANTS'
FEEDING BOTTLES, AND IN CAPS OR COVERS FOR THE SAME.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Francis Lynch.
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 16th July 1873.
I, THOMAS FRANCIS LYNCH, of Aldersgate Street, in the City of
London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for " IM-
PROVEMENTS IN INFANTS' FEEDING BOTTLES, AND IN CAPS OR COVERS FOR THE SAME,'
to be as follows:-
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The Invention has for its object improvements in infants' feeding
bottles and in caps or covers for the same, whereby the cap or cover is
capable of being readily and instantaneously securely fixed on the neck
thereof, and yet so that the infant cannot disengage the one from the
other. For this purpose instead of forming the bottle and the cap or

page_text: cover with complete screws to connect them together as heretofore, I
form on the neck of the feeding bottle a number of studs or projections
(three by preference), and I form in the cap or cover a similar number
of projections with inclined faces, so that when the cap or cover is
applied to the neck of the feeding bottle in such manner that the studs
or projections on the neck come between the projections in the cover,
then by pressing the cap or cover down and giving only a partial
rotation thereto it is instantly and securely fixed on the neck of the
feeding bottle. The crown of the cap or cover is suitably packed so
that when resting on the edge of the neck the contents of the feeding
bottle cannot escape therefrom.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Francis Lynch in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 16th January 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
FRANCIS LYNCH, of Aldersgate Street, in the City of London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Francis Lynch, Her
special license that I, the said Thomas Francis Lynch, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Francis
Lynch, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN INFANTS' FEEDING BOTTLES, AND IN CAPS OR COVERS FOR THE
SAME," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas
Francis Lynch, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,

page_text: such manner that the studs or projections 6 on the neck a come between
the projections c¹ in the cap or cover, then by pressing the cap or cover
down and giving only a partial rotation thereto it is instantly and
securely fixed on the neck of the feeding bottle, and cannot be disengaged
therefrom by the infant. The crown of the cap or cover c is suitably
packed with a disc of cork or other material c³, so that when resting and
held down on the neck a the contents of the feeding bottle cannot
escape therefrom.
The cap or cover c as shown in the Drawings is supposed to be made
of wood, but when made of other materials the form and mode of
manufacture of the parts will be modified as will be well understood.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the mode
in which I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood that
what I claim as my Invention is, the peculiar construction of the necks
of infants' feeding bottles and of caps or covers for the same in manner
and for the purpose substantially as herein shown and described.
In witness whereof I, the said Thomas Francis Lynch, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of January, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.