IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING LIQUID NOURISHMENT TO INFANTS AND INVALIDS, AND IN THE APPLICATION OF SUCH IMPROVEMENTS TO THE FEEDING OF ANIMALS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Albert Dauncey, of Bury, in the County of
Lancaster, Yarn Agents' Salesman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING LIQUID NOURISHMENT TO INFANTS AND INVALIDS,
AND IN THE APPLICATION OF SUCH IMPROVEMENTS TO THE FEEDING OF ANIMALS."
Sealed the 10th December 1861, and dated the 12th June 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Albert Dauncey
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th June 1861.
I, JOHN ALBERT DAUNCEY, of Bury, in the County of Lancaster, Yarn
Agents' Salesman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING LIQUID NOURISHMENT TO INFANTS AND
INVALIDS, AND IN THE APPLICATION OF SUCH IMPROVEMENTS TO THE FEEDING OF
ANIMALS," to be as follows:-
The Invention relates, first, to a certain description of apparatus used for
supplying liquid nourishment to invalids and infants, and which is now well
known, wherein an elastic tube is employed externally, and a rigid internal
tube to convey the liquid from the vessel to the consumer.
My improvement consists in the employment of a jointed tube, for the
external tube in contradistinction to the continuous clastic one now used, so
that it may be disunited for the purpose of cleaning, and also in the use of an
clastic tube having its lower extremity weighted instead of a rigid one internally,

page_text: so that the open end of the said tube may always be submerged in the liquid
in whatever position the vessel may be placed, the two tubes being secured
to the stopper of the vessel as usual, in which small tubes or orifices are
arranged for the admission of air. If required, a number of tubes may bo
fitted to one vessel so as to supply many consumers from one vessel.
Secondly, my Invention relates to the feeding of animals, such as lambs
and calves, and consists in arranging a flexible vessel above the receptacle of
the feeding liquid, such flexible vessel being composed of caoutchouc or other
suitable material, and either suspended by springs in a framing or secured by
means of a flexible washer on to the lower vessel to give elasticity instead of
having it rigid as hitherto used. The teats for sucking are placed in the sides
of the upper or flexible vessel, and communicate with the liquid by tubes
jointed for the purpose of cleaning.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of. the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Albert Dauncey in the Great Seal Patent-Office on-
the 12th December 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
ALBERT DAUNCEY, of Bury, in the County of Lancaster, Yarn Agents' Sales-
man, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Albert Dauncey, Her special license that I, the said John
Albert Dauncey, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said John Albert Dauncey, 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 Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING LIQUID NOURISHMENT TO
INFANTS AND INVALIDS, AND IN THE APPLICATION OF SUCH IMPROVEMENTS TO THE
FEEDING OF ANIMALS," upon the condition, amongst others, that I, the said
John Albert Dauncey, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
ju what manner the same, was to be performed, and cause the same to be

page_text: 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 John Albert Dauncey, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by tho
following statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say) :-
The Invention relates, first, to a certain description of apparatus used for
supplying liquid nourishment to invalids and. infants, and which is now well
known, wherein an elastic tube is employed externally and a rigid internal tube
to convey the liquid from the vessel to the consumer.
My improvement consists in the employment of a jointed tube for the
external tube, in contradistinction to the continuous elastic one now used, so
that it may be disunited for the purpose of cleaning, and also in the use of an
elastic tube having its lower extremity weighted instead of a rigid one internally,
so that the open end of the said tube may always be submerged in the liquid
in whatever position the vessel may be placed, the two tubes being secured to
the stopper of the vessel as usual, in which small tubes or orifices are arranged
for the admission of air. If required a number of tubes may be fitted.to
one vessel so as to supply many consumers from one vessel.
Secondly, my Invention relates to the feeding of other animals, such as
lambs and calves, and consists in arranging a flexible vessel above the receptacle
of the feeding liquid, such flexible vessel being composed of caoutchouc or
other suitable material, and either suspended by springs in a framing or secured
by means of a flexible washer on to the lower vessel to give elasticity instead
of having it rigid as hitherto used. The teats for sucking are placed in the
sides of the upper or flexible vessel, and communicate with the liquid by tubes
jointed for the purpose of cleaning.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings made upon a scale of
about four inches to a foot, Figs. 1, 2, and 3 being shewn full size.
In Fig..1, a, a, is the bottle or receptacle to contain the liquid, within
which the clastic tube 6 descends from the exterior tube c, the internal tube
being provided with a weight or ferrule of metal, glass, or porcelain d, for the
purpose of insuring the end being submerged in the liquid in whatsoever
position the bottle may be placed. The external tube is formed in sections cach
connected by means of the double conical junction tube or union joint e, as
seen in the detailed view, a similar junction being used between the glass
internal tube f, Figs. 2 and 3, and the external tube when a glass tube is used
instead of the flexible one.

page_text: Fig. 4 is a side view of an apparatus adapted to the feeding of animals, such
as lambs and calves, in which an elastic chamber g is suspended clastically in
a framework h, the teats i, i, being inserted in the elastic hemispheres secured
to or formed on the sides thereof, and communicating with the liquid contained
in the vessel k by means of the tubes 1, 1, 1, which may be made in short
lengths jointed together as above described; Fig. 5 is a plan view of the same;
and Fig. 6 is a side view of a modification wherein the elastic chamber is secured
upon the vessel without the use of an extra framing.
Fig. 7 is an end view of an apparatus particularly adapted to the feeding of
pigs, wherein the same principles are embodied in another and more suitable
form...
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
manner of carrying the samo into practical effect, I would remark in conclusion
that I claim,
First, the use of a jointed external tube instead of a continuous length, as
the sections are more readily cleaned.
Secondly, the method of effecting-the-junction of such sections or pieces by
means of the conical or double conical union joints.
And, thirdly, the use of an elastic internal tube, having a weight at its
lowest extremity.
And last, I claim the novel construction and general arrangement of appa-
ratus for feeding lambs, calves, and the young of cattle, as herein-before
described, set forth, and fully illustrated in the Drawings attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Albert Dauncey, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
D
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JOHN ALBERT DAUNCEY.