IMPROVEMENTS IN INFANTS FREDING BOTTLES
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 11th July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 17th Aug., 1888
I, ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON of 46, Southampton Buildings Holborn in the
county of Middlesex and 31, Lincoln Place, Leinster Street, Dublin, Patent Agent
do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN INFANTS
FREDING BOTTLES, a communication to me from abroad by Ernest Louis Philippe
Lelièvre, Manufacturer of the city of Paris in the Republic of France, to be as
follows:
This invention relates to certain improvements on a former Patent granted to me
under the No. 3251 dated 8th March 1886 such improvements being intended to
facilitate and insure the perfectly cleanly preservation of the bottle, the free admission
of air into its interior, and prevention of the liquid running out, no matter what
position the bottle may be placed in, whilst at the same time the suction required to
draw the liquid from the bottle no matter what quantity it contains, is very slight.
In the drawings accompanying this specification, Fig. 1 represents an external
view of a feeding bottle of the description embodying my invention, the whole
being constructed of glass, it is seen from the side where the marks are made
showing the proportions of water to be added to the milk in a full bottle.
Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 are vertical
sections of the said bottles furnished with tubes plunging into the interior of the
bottle and hereinafter described.
Fig. 5 shows the air holes used when the stopper is emery ground instead of screw
threaded.
Fig. 6 represents the neck of a bottle closed by a screw threaded stopper, the
air tightness of which is insured by a truncated portion which is emery ground.
The glass bottle a, at the bottom is perfectly rounded, to prevent any incrustation
at the bottom, and to facilitate cleaning.
At a', a², the bottles sides are flat, so that it may lie steadily. On one of these sides
is either impressed or moulded the Trade Mark, and on the other the marks indicating
the quantities or proportions of milk and water with which to fill the bottle, as the
infant increases in age.

page_text: The stopper b, is moulded with a screw thread 6', which serves.to fix it in the neck
of the bottle, which latters bears corresponding threads vide Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6.
To insure airtightness, an india rubber washer or ring c, may be placed between
the head, of the stopper, and the mouth of the bottle, vide Figs. 3 and 4.
The stopper may also be adjusted in the neck, by merely emery grinding it, vide
Fig. 5, and terminating it, in a glass mouth piece c¹, Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 6, or a tube
of more or less length.
Fig. 3 itself terminating in a mouth piece c¹, which allows the child to suck
whilst lying down.
The mouth piece may be of the shape represented by Fig. 6 on which an india
rubber teat can be placed.
The tube d, instead of being of a piece with the stopper can be fitted by emery
grinding and lengthened by a piece f, plunging to the bottom of the bottle as shown
by Fig. 4.
In applying the movable plunging tube f (vide Fig. 3) it may be fixed to the
stopper by a ball, turning in a second stopper g, which screws onto the first.
The screw threaded part 6', of the stopper b, Fig. 6 may be preceded by a truncated
part 63, emery ground, with the view of doing away with the india rubber washer as
shown by Figs. 3 and 4.
The air enters the bottle through the small holes x, pierced through the projecting
piece, on the bottle neck vide Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, or by grooves or channels y, of
variable number hollowed in the rim of the stopper vide Figs. 1 to 6 inclusive.
When the stoppers are fitted by emery grinding the grooves y, are continued inside
the neck of the bottle in form of longitudinal hollows a², made either in the stopper
or the neck vide Figs. 5 and 6.
Either one or other of the air entries may be applied to the bottles, or both may be
used simultaneously.
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page_text: I ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON of 46, Southampton Buildings, Holborn in the
county of Middlesex and 31, Lincoln Place, Leinster Street, Dublin, Patent Agent
do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN INFANTS
FEEDING BOTTLES and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, a communication
to me from abroad by Ernest Louis Philippe Lelièvre, Manufacturer of the city of
Paris in the Republic of France :-
This invention relates to certain improvements on a former Patent granted to me
under the No. 3251 dated 8th March 1886 such improvements being intended to
facilitate and insure the perfectly cleanly preservation of the feeding bottle, the free
admission of air into its interior, and prevention of the liquid running out no matter
what position the bottle may be placed in, whilst at the same time the suction required
to draw the liquid from the bottle (no matter what quantity it contains) is very
slight.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is an external view of a feeding bottle of the
description embodying my invention, the whole being constructed in glass; seen from
the side where the marks are made, showing the proportions of water to be added to
the milk in a full bottle.
Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 are vertical
sections of the said bottles furnished with tubes plunging into the interior. Fig. 5
shows the air holes used when the stopper is emery ground instead of screw threaded.
Fig. 6 represents the neck of a bottle closed by a screw threaded stopper, the air
tightness of which is insured by a truncated portion which is emery ground.
The glass bottle a, at the bottom is perfectly rounded to prevent any incrustation at
the bottom, and to facilitate cleaning. At a', a², the bottles sides are flat so that it
may lie steadily. On one of these sides is either impressed or moulded the Trade
Mark, and on the other the marks indicating the quantities or proportions of milk and
water with which to fill the bottle, as the infants age increases. The stopper b, is
moulded with a screw thread 61, which serves to fix it in the neck of the bottle, which
latter bears corresponding threads vide Figs. 2, 3, 4 and 6.
To insure air tightness an india rubber washer or ring c, may be placed between
the head b, of the stopper and the mouth of the bottle, vide Figs. 3 and 4.
The stopper may also be adjusted in the neck by merely emery grinding it, vide
Fig. 5, and it, may terminate in a glass mouthpiece c¹, Figs. 1, 2, 5 and 6, or a tube d,
of more or less length, Fig. 3, itself terminating in a mouth piece c', which allows
the child to suck whilst lying down. The mouth piece may be of the shape
represented by Fig. 6, on which an india rubber teat can be placed.
The tube d, instead of being of a piece with the stopper, can be fitted by emery
grinding, and lengthened by a piece f, plunging to the bottom of the bottle as shown
by Fig. 4.

page_text: In applying a movable plunging tube f, Fig. 3 it may be fixed to the stopper, by
a ball turning in a second stopper g, which screws on to the first.
The screw threaded part 1, of the stopper b, Fig. 6 may be preceded by a truncated
part 6, emery ground, with the view of doing away with the india rubber washer
as shown by Figs. 3 and 4.
The air enters the bottle through the small hole x, pierced through the projecting
piece ¹, on the bottle neck, vide Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4, or by grooves or channels y, of
variable number hollowed in the rim of the stopper vide Figs. 1 to 6 inclusive.
When the stoppers are fitted by emery grinding the grooves y, are continued inside
the neck of the bottle in form of longitudinal hollows a³, made either in the stopper,
or the neck, vide Figs. 5, and 6.
Either one or other of the air entries may be applied to the bottles, or both
may be used simultaneously.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is;
1st. In the construction of glass feeding bottles, the perfectly rounded bottom,
so that it can only be laid on one or other of its sides, on one of which is the
Trade Mark, whilst on the other are the marks showing the quantities of milk and
water, to be mixed in a full bottle according to the age of the infant.
2nd. In glass feeding bottles, such as embodying my invention, either fixing the
stopper in the neck of the bottle, by emery grinding, without the use of screw
threads, or emery grinding a part, and screw threading the other.
3rd. In glass feeding bottles, such as my invention, either moulding the mouth
piece with the stopper, or connecting a tube with the stopper, or moulding the stopper
with a small projecting pioce, on which an india rubber teat can be fixed.
The tube fitting in the stopper by emery grinding, and descending in a rigid
manner into the bottle, and reaching near the bottom.
4th. In glass feeding bottles of the description herein mentioned, a fixed or movable
suction tube, connected with the stopper by a ball turning in a second stopper,
'screwing into the first.
5th. In glass feeding bottles as herein described, making the stopper water tight,
by placing an india rubber ring or washer between the lower part of the stopper, and
the rim of the neck, or mouth of the bottle.
6th. In glass feeding bottles, the method of admitting air through a small hole
made in an external, or internal projection on the bottle neck, or by making one or
more grooves, or channels on the rim of the neck, and continuing them by longitu-
dinal grooves or channels either on the stopper, or neck of the bottle, when the stopper
is fitted by emery grinding. Or admitting air through an aperture made in the
shoulder of the stopper simply.