A Cosey or Holder for Infants' Feeding Bottles.
Year: 1892

page_text: ate of Application, 2nd Feb., 1392-Accepted, 5th Mar., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Cosey or Holder for Infants' Feeding Bottles.
I, JOHN KURMAN trading as Jenkins Kurman & Co. of 3 Glendall Street,
Ferndale Road Brixton London S.W. Manufacturer of Art Needlework and
Novelty Goods, 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 consists in a receptacle adapted to contain an infants feeding
bottle and adapted to be secured upon the person of the infant in such a manner
that it is not liable to be overturned or to slip away from the position it is intended
to occupy to enable the infant to take nourishment therefrom. The invention
further consists in combining with this receptacle for the feeding bottle, a muff or
container for the hands of the infant in which muff or container the infants hands
may be lightly secured.
The main purpose and advantage of the invention is to keep the milk or food in
the feeding bottle at the desired temperature and more especially to prevent the
food from being chilled when in the open air; also to keep the bottle upright so
that the suction of air which would occur if the bottle were reversed, is avoided,
and to hold the bottle in the desired position in relation to the mouth of the infant
so that it cannot fall away out of the reach of the latter.
The further object of detaining the infants' hands and wrists in a muff is to keep
the same warm and also out of mischief.
The accompanying drawing illustrates the invention,
Fig. 1 being a view of the same combined with the muff,
Fig. 2 a view of the same not so combined.
The cosey or holder A is made of any suitable fabric and in any desired design
of needlework etc. It may be of felt or other fabric traced with a design intended
to be worked in needlework by the purchaser or it may be sold already ornamented
in any suitable way. It is preferably of the same general shape as the feeding
bottle it is intended to enclose, and it is open at the neck to admit of the bottle
being easily inserted or withdrawn. To secure the bottle in the holder A the latter
may be gathered at the neck by a string or ribbon as at B Fig. 1, or if slit down
one side as in Fig. 2 may be tied up by ribbons as C. C.
If the holder is not of a thick material non conductive of heat it is preferable to
line it with a quilted or padded lining or equivalent heat preserver.
An inner removeable lining of a material, such as oil-skin or American cloth,
impervious to liquid, D in Fig. 2, may be also inserted in case any liquid on the
outside of the bottle should soil the holder A.
Each holder is provided with strings cords or ribbons E by which it is slung
around the neck of the infant, these suspending strings or the like being of
importance to keep the holder upright and in position for the purposes before
mentioned so that a valuable feature is attained in this holder, namely that of not
requiring any supervision after it is secured properly in its place. The cords or the
like are secured at such places on the holder A that the upright position of the
bottle when suspended is assured.
When the holder is combined with a muff as beforementioned it is preferably
secured or made on the side of the muff, and in any case should be so made that the
bottle is upright when the muff is in its usual horizontal position. Around the
hand holes at the ends of the muff G the usual gathered pieces H, which may be
those usually found in muffs or additional pieces thereto, are provided with the
strings or equivalents J so that after the infants hands are inserted these gathered

page_text: pieces may be drawn tighter to prevent the infant from withdrawing his hands if so
desired.
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. The cosey or holder for an infants feeding bottle having the strings or
equivalent devices for its suspension, whereby the food in the bottle is maintained
at the desired temperature and the bottle is maintained in an upright or sub-
stantially upright position.
2. The combination of a cosey or holder for an infants feeding bottle with a muff
or container for the hands of the infant, the holder being upright or substantially so
in relation to the muff, the whole being adapted to be suspended with the objects
herein described.
Dotod this 2nd day of February 1802
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.