IMPROVEMENTS IN FEEDING BOTTLES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Noah Fellows, of South Hackney, in the County
of Middlesex, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN FEEDING BOTTLES."
Sealed the 9th June 1874, and dated the 16th December 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Noah Fellows at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th December 1873.
I, NOAH FELLOWS, of South Hackney, in the County of Middlesex,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FEEDING BOTTLES," to be as follows, that is to say :-
By the present arrangement of infants' feeding bottles the cleansing
of the flexible tube is difficult and imperfect, owing to the difficulty of
access, whereby the milk or other liquid remains in the interior of the
tube and becomes sour, contaminating the whole, thereby engendering
sickness and complaints. The object of my Invention is to obviate these
defects in an easy, complete, and expeditious manner.

page_text: To carry out my Invention I employ two tubes of equal length of
india-rubber, gutta percha, or other flexible material, one within the
other. The inner tube is slit or cut longitudinally, the slit extending
nearly to both its extremities. The inner tube fits in the outer tube so
as to be easily removeable therefrom, but sufficiently tight for the slit or
cut to be kept closed by the pressure of the outer tube.
The upper end of the inner tube is suitably fitted to the mouth-piece
or teat, and the lower end is fitted over the upper end of the usual glass
tube placed in the bottle. The outer tube is adjusted in like manner
over the fittings of the inner tube.
It is obvious that when required to cleanse the inner tube the same
may be withdrawn and spread open flat so as to expose its surface to be
wiped or washed thoroughly clean and then replaced. After being
cleaned its elasticity will cause it to take its original form. The inner
tube may be made of a strip or sheet of india-rubber or gutta percha :
rolled into form.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Noah Fellows in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 16th June 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, NOAH
FELLOWS, of South Hackney, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of December, 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 Noah Fellows, Her special licence that
.I, the said Noah Fellows, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
'such others as I, the said Noah Fellows, 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

page_text: Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FEEDING BOTTLES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Noah Fellows, 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, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Noah Fellows, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
By the present arrangement of infants' feeding bottles the cleansing
of the flexible tube is difficult and imperfect, owing to the difficulty of
access, whereby the milk remains in the interior of the tube and becomes
sour, contaminating the whole, and thereby engendering sickness and
complaints. The object of my Invention is to obviate these defects in
an easy, complete, and expeditious manner.
To carry out my Invention I employ two tubes of equal length of
india-rubber, gutta percha, or other flexible material, one within the
other. The inner tube is slit or cut longitudinally, the slit extending
nearly to both its extremities. The inner tube fits in the outer tube so
as to be easily removeable, therefrom, but sufficiently tight to keep the
slit or cut closed by the pressure of the outer tube.
The upper ends of the inner and outer tubes are fitted to the mouth-
piece or teat by means of a union, and the lower ends are passed over
and thus fitted to the upper end of the usual glass tube in the bottle.
The inner tube may also be made of a strip or sheet of india-rubber,
gutta percha, or other flexible material rolled into the required form.
It is obvious that when required to cleanse the inner tube the same
may be withdrawn and spread open flat so as to expose its inner surface,
and allow it to be washed thoroughly clean, and then replaced. After
being cleaned its elasticity will cause it to take its original form.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of carrying the same into effect, what I claim is, the employ-
ment of two tubes of elastic and flexible material placed one within the

page_text: other, the interior tube being cut or slit or formed of an open material
as and for the purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Noah Fellows, have hereto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Witness,
W. A. GILBEE,
4, South St.,
Finsbury.
NOAH FELLOWS. (L.S.)