Improvements in Feeding-bottles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Dec., 1895-Accepted, 26th Mar., 1896
Improvements in Feeding-bottles.
JOHN PILSON HEWITT 117 Campbell Road Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire
Artist Designer Etcher JOHN GEORGE MOWBRAY JEFFREY Artist and
Designer Cleveland Terrace, High Lane Burslem, Staffordshire do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A new and improved feeding bottle-stopper and glass suction tube, to be made
of glass or other material as may be found necessary or advisable, and in the
following manner or design.
The bottle must be larger towards or near the top and gradually be made narrow
towards the base. The opening at the top or broader part must be made to receive
a screw stopper, and at a certain distance (to be more fully ascertained and
described) up the side or front of the bottle, a line or mark must be shown in or on
the glass.
The stopper can be a screw stopper with the ordinary flat or flanged top and
can either terminate in the ordinary screw but longer or have a continuation in the
form of a hollow cylinder of glass which must be of sufficient length to reach (when
the stopper is screwed down) almost to the line or mark in the bottle.
It must also have two or more holes, or apertures in it, reaching from the top
of the stopper to the base of the screw, that is, from the outside air to the milk
through the screw or cylinder.
The glass suction-tube must have a minute hole pierced in it at a point just
below its attachment to the rubber-tubing.
The advantages of the above bottle-stopper, and suction-tube, are very many,
for if the bottle is made as above and of proportions to be hereinafter more fully
described, the milk, (if only enough is poured in the bottle to reach the line or
mark in or round the bottle) will not run out (as is the tendency with the present
existing bottles) through the hole in the stopper, when the bottle is upset, but will
run round the outside of the cylinder and remain there, neither will it run through
the suction tube, because of the minute hole aforesaid, this preventing the usual
leakage (as through a syphon) whilst permitting a full flow when in use. The
extra hole or holes in the stopper allow at all times free access of air to the milk,
this rendering unnecessary the removal of the stopper, when the milk is put to warm,
for the milk will not go sour in this bottle, under such conditions, but it often does
in the existing class of bottle, at the same time it is impossible for the milk to run
out through the holes should the bottle by any accident be upset.
These we think are very important facts, for we do away in a great measure,
with the danger of children getting sour milk, and at the same time, confer a great
boon on those who are in the habit of feeding children by means of a bottle, for it
effectually prevents leakage & through that broken rest.
This we have found out by actual experiments and never, so far as we know,
has the subject been similarly treated.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1895.

page_text: Improvements in Feeding-bottles.
JOHN PILSON HEWITT 117 Campbell Road Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire
Artist, Designer, Etcher JOHN GEORGE MOWBRAY JEFFREY Cleveland
Terrace High Lane Burslem Staffordshire Designer, 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 :-
A. new and improved feeding bottle, stopper and glass suction tube, to be made
of glass or other material as may be found necessary or advisable and in the
following manner or design.
The bottle must be larger towards or near the top and gradually to be made
narrow towards the base. The opening at the top or broader part must be made
to receive a screw-stopper and at a certain distance up the front or side of the
bottle a line or mark must be shown in or on the glass.
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The stopper can be a screw-stopper with the ordinary flat or flanged top and can
either terminate in the ordinary screw but longer or have a continuation in the
form of a hollow cylinder of glass which must be of sufficient length to reach (when
the stopper is screwed down) almost to the line or mark in the bottle.
It must also have two or more holes or apertures in it reaching from the top of
the stopper to the base of the screw, that is from the outside air to the milk
through the screw or cylinder.
The glass suction tube must have a minute hole pierced in it at a point just
below its attachment to the rubber tubing.
The shape of bottle herein before described is shown in drawing & marked
Figure A both in section & plan of top.
The screw stopper is cylindrical in shape and is shown inserted in bottle in
drawing and marked Figure B and the two air holes (herein before described) in
it are marked Figure C both in section & plan of top.
The suction-tube with minute hole (herein before described) is shown in drawing
and marked Figure d but is not marked so in plan of top because it is unnecessary
for the minute hole is fully shown in section drawing.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
1. That a feeding-bottle cylindrical stopper with air holes in it and suction
tube all as herein before described are novelties and never before so far as we
know have feeding-bottles been similarly designed.
Dated this 21st day of December 1895.
JOHN GEORGE MOWBRAY JEFFREY,
Co-inventor.