Improvements in Feeding Bottles, Soothing Teats, Teething Pads, and such like articles used by Infants
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Nov., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Feeding Bottles, Soothing Teats, Teething Pads,
and such like articles used by Infants.
HYPPOLITE BESSON of 63 Alexandra Road Hornsey in the County of Middlesex
Mechanical Engineer and WILLIAM CHARLES HAWTIN of 26 Norman Terrace
Selby Road Leytonstone Essex, Foreman' do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Firstly, our invention relates to better means to assure or help the breathing of
the infant while drawing or sucking milk or such like food from a feeding bottle or
when using soothing or teething tents.
Secondly, relates to better means to protect the glass tube, which hahgs inside
the feeding bottle, from breaking, and also to prevent any thick sediment to pass
up the glass tube.
The first part of our invention consists of a small shield or protector formed
with corrugations or having rising surfaces and hollows so that the lips of the
infant can only come in contact with the said projecting surfaces in sucking while
the hollows caused by the said projecting surfaces will allow air to circulate freely
during teething or sucking.
The second part of our invention consists of a hollow bulb or balloon, spherical
or oval shape, or any such convenient shape, fitted to bottom end of glass tube
which hangs in feeding bottles. The bulb has very fine perforations or slits, made
thro' the thickness of its surfaces, so as to intercept all thick substance or sediment,
but will allow milk or such like food, pass freely, or we may replace the perforation
by fitting to the bulb or part of it, a small sieve.
Dated this Fifteenth day of August 1899
H BESSON.
W. C. HAWTIN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Feeding Bottles, Soothing Teats, Teething Pads,
and such like articles used by Infants.
HYPPOLITE BESSON Mechanical Engineer of 63 Alexandra Road, Hornsey
County of Middlesex and WILLIAM CHARLES HAWTIN Foreman of 26 Norman
Terrace Selby Road Leytonstone County of Essex, 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 :-
Our invention firstly relates to better means to assure or help the breathing of
the infants while drawing or sucking milk or such like food from a feeding bottle
or when using a soothing teat or teething pad.
Also our invention secondly relates to better means to protect the glass tube
which hangs inside the bottle from grinding or breaking by coming in contact with
the feeding bottle and also to prevent any thick sediment to pass up the tube.
In order that our said invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect, we will now proceed to describe the invention with the drawings hereunto
annexed in which the same letters indicate like parts.
The first part of our invention consists of a small pad or ring or breathing
protector P. Fig. 2 and 5 formed with corrugations or rising surfaces a, a, and
hollows b, b so that the lips of the infant can only come in contact with the said
rising surfaces a, a when sucking, while the hollows b,b caused by the said projecting
surfaces, will allow the air to circulate and pass freely during breathing or sucking.

page_text: The pad, ring, or breathing protector Pas seen in Fig. 1 and 4 is fitted round
the teat T and rests upon the bone shield S but in some cases we may fix it to
the teat as shewn in Fig. 7 by forming a stem g, with annular rim or projection g¹
Fig. 2,,5 and 7, this said stem is held with the stem of the teat T by the bone
shield S which passes over both, to fit in the hollow of the glass union u.
The shape of the rising surfaces a, a and hollows bb formed upon the pad or
ring, can be varied so as to obtain the best result to allow breathing, they may
be formed of small cubes, pyramids, cylinders, semi spheres, or oval or round forms,
or weaved ribs, or any such combined shapes.
The outline of the pad, ring or breathing protector, may be round, oval, square,
triangular, star outline, or any such combined outline.
The pad ring or breathing protector may be manufactured of any of the
following materials india rubber, gutta percha, vulcanite, celluloid, porcelain, ivory,
bone, or metal.
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The second part of our invention consists of an enlarged bulb L Fig. 8 made
of india rubber, or any such elastic compressive material, having several leach bite
or other shape holes o, o made through the thickness of its form, it has a stem
which the inner glass tube which hangs in feeding bottle, can be fitted, the enlarged
bulb may be made spherical, semi-spherical, or balloon shape, or any such shape
which presents a very enlarged diameter, so as to obtain the best result to protect
the inner glass tube, when coming in contact with the feeding bottle.
We would remark here, that the shape of the enlarged bulb really protects the
inner glass tube from breaking, as no matter how hard the inner tube is jerked in
the bottle, the glass tube can in no case touch it.
Having thus fully described the nature of our invention, and the manner by
which it is performed, we declare that we claim.
1. A corrugated pad, ring, or breathing protector, having rising surfaces, and
hollows, or the like, formed substantially as and for the purpose herein described
and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. A bulb or glass tube protector, having an enlarged diameter, substantially as
and for the purpose herein described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of November 1892.
HYPPOLITE BESSON.
WILLIAM CHARLES HAWTIN.