Improved Means for Giving Medicines and other Liquids to Children.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 19th May, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 19th Feb., 1900-Accepted, 5th May, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Giving Medicines and other Liquids to Children.
SAMUEL COOPER SHAW, 14, Beech Grove, Longsight, Manchester, Commercial
Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
The invention is to facilitate the giving of medicine or any liquid to babies
or young children. It is composed of a glass tube open at each end, bent near
the centre and flattened at this bend to allow for it to be stood on this flattened
surface so that any liquid in the tube would not run out at either end. One
end of this tube is tapered and then flattened to allow for an indiarubber teat
and bone ring shield to be fixed on, so that the child sucking the teat will draw
the liquid through the tube into its mouth.
Dated this 18th low of V 1000
Improved Means for Giving Medicines and other Liquids to Children.
I, SAMUEL COOPER SHAW, late of 14, Beech Grove, Longsight, Manchester,
Chemists' Agent, but now of 17, Claremont Grove, Didsbury, Manchester, 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 has for its object to facilitate the giving of medicine or any
liquid matter to babies or young children, and comprises a glass tube open at
each end, bent near the centre of its length and flattened at the bend to allow
the tube to stand without any liquid in the tube being able to run out at either
end. Whilst both ends are open and one end is, by preference, as wide as the
tube, the other end is tapered and flattened or prepared to receive an india-
rubber teat and bone shield through which a child may suck the contents of the
tube into its mouth.
To make my invention clear I have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings, in
which Fig. 1 illustrates a side view, and Fig. 2 a plan of my invention. Fig. 8
illustrates the teat end of the tube with the teat removed.
Fig. 4 illustrates a slight modification.
The device is made of glass and partakes of the form of a tube (A) about (by
preference) one inch wide and six inches long, bent in the centre of its length
and at the bend provided with a flattened portion (B) upon which to stand.
Both ends (C) and (D) are open, but the end (D) is left wide open whilst the
end (C) is formed as shewn in Fig. 3 to receive a teat (E).

page_text: The fluid to be taken is poured into the tube through the end (D) and drawn
or sucked out through the teat (E).
In lieu of fitting a teat on the end (C) I may form such end as shewn in Fig. 4,
and thus adapt the device for pouring purposes, and instead of a flat (B) I may
employ a bent tube only, with, or without, small studs, or with a set of edges
to act as feet, as shewn by dotted lines in Fig. 1.
Although preferring the device to be in glass which renders it light, cheap
and easy to clean, also enables the contents to be seen, I may make it of other
suitable materials.
To aid in measuring the liquid I may mark or mould the glass with lines as
in a medicine bottle.
As a further modification I may form the end (D) of the device as shewn by
dotted lines in Fig. 1 to facilitate the pouring in of the medicine or other liquids.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
1: An open ended bent tube adapted to stand without allowing the contents
to run out at either end and at one end formed to receive a teat, substantially
as and for the purposes herein. set forth.
SAMUEL COOPER SHAW.
By John G. Wilson & Co., Fels. I.P.A.,
Agents for the Applicant. 55, Market Street, Manchester.