IMPROVEMENTS IN FEEDING BOTTLES
Year: 1885

page_text: I RICHARD CHARLES BAKER Manager of Thompson, Millard and Company
Limited of Curtain Road Great Eastern Street in the City of London Druggists'
Sundriesman do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
FEEDING BOTTLES to be as follows:-
These improvements have reference to feeding bottles of the description known
from their shape as the "boat" kind and one particular object of the invention is
to obtain a bottle of a simple highly efficient character adapted for use in hot
climates where it is advisable to employ as little india rubber, small tubular
passages or recesses or secretive places for food to effect lodgement in, so as to
escape removal in cleansing with even a moderate amount of care or employment
of parts rapidly deteriorated by tropical climatic influences.
For this object I form my improved feeding bottles of glass having at one end a
throat or contracted outlet or hollow neck on which to apply a suitable teat and
communicating with the bottle which becomes larger in diameter from that neck
towards or to the other end without side opening or the bottle may become
enlarged to or before reaching the middle and diminish again in size but in any
case it has a comparatively large opening at its end adapted to give ready and
direct access to the entire bottle for cleansing by brushing or otherwise without
danger of any part escaping contact. This opening is formed with a neck or throat
having a screw thread or such like means of attachment for securing thereto a
metal cap lined or padded with cork, india rubber or other suitable material, or in
place of a cap of metal, a closing piece of other suitable readily cleansible material
may be adopted.
By these means I am enabled to produce a vessel adapted for the administration
of food of the simplest and most durable character readily accessible and cleansible
in every part by a brush or rubber and not having perishable parts difficult of
renewal a great boon in a hot climate.

page_text: I RICHARD CHARLES BAKER, Manager of Thompson, Millard and Company,
Limited, of Curtain Road, Great Eastern Street, in the City of London, Druggists'
Sundriesman, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
FEEDING BOTTLES and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
These improvements have especial reference to feeding bottles of the description
known from their shape as the "boat" kind and one particular object of the
invention is to obtain a bottle of a simple highly efficient character, adapted for
use in hot climates, where it is advisable to employ as little india rubber, small
tubular passages, recesses or secretive places for food to effect lodgement in as
possible and thereby to avoid any undesirable deposits of the food to escape
removal in cleansing with even a moderate amount of care or the employment of
parts rapidly deteriorated by tropical climatic influences.
For this object I form my improved feeding bottles of glass having at one end a
throat, or contracted outlet, or hollow neck, on which to apply a suitable teat and
communicating with the bottle which becomes larger in diameter from that neck
towards, or to the other end, substantially without side opening for escape of food
or by its cover to interfere with the even contour of the sides of the bottle or the
bottle may become enlarged to, or before reaching, the middle and diminish again
in size, but in any case it has a comparatively large opening at one of its ends,
adapted to give ready and direct access to the entire bottle for cleansing by
brushing, or otherwise, without danger of any part escaping contact with the
cleansing implement This cleansing opening is formed with a neck, or throat,
having internally or externally a thread, or inclined lugs, or such like means of
attachment for securing thereto a metal cap lined, or padded with cork, india
rubber, or other suitable material, or in place of an external cap of metal or a plug
of glass with rubber washer a closing piece of any other suitable readily cleansible
material may be adopted.
By these means I am enabled to produce a vessel adapted for the administration
of food of the simplest and most durable character readily accessible and cleansible
in every part by a brush, or rubber, and not having perishable parts difficult of
renewal a great boon in a hot climate and other places where from the conditions
of the climate and other reasons peculiar difficulties attend the use of perishable
materials.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 indicates one of the broader sides of a boat-feeder bottle A constructed
according to my invention with an external screw cap B to close one end (1)
Figure 2 is an edge view of the same, Figure 3 is a like view of the end (1) of the
bottle A with the cap B closing the cleansing end (as here arranged) in section,
Figure 4 shews an end and Figure 5 a side view of the cap B separately. Figure 6
shews a modification of the closing means by the substitution of an internal screw

page_text: stopper C for the cap B Figure 7 shews the screw stopper C separately--Figure 8
shews another type of modifications of the means of carrying out my invention,
by making one opening (1) serve in place of the two ends (1) and (2) of the
previous figures by the employment of an internal stopper C carrying a tube d and
teat e with their ordinary adjuncts passed through an opening provided in the
stopper C instead of that stopper being solid. c¹ throughout the figures indicates
the washer or pad as the case may be for making a tight joint-The arrangement
of tube and parts for feeding shewn by Figure 8 is adaptable to the bottle shewn
in Figure 6 by closing the then disused end F shewn by broken lines by the
ordinary teat or other closer. G is an air inlet.
Other modifications in detail will readily suggest themselves to adapt my
improved bottle to various forms of stopper or cap-such as a metal or other cap
lined on its inner side walls with cork or other material or an internal stopper
with, or constructed of, cork-without departing from my invention which is
constituted by a boat-feeder-bottle with a substantially large end opening directly
accessible to the cleansing means and with very limited extent of packing or
perishable parts exposed to act on, or be acted on by, the food.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. The construction of a boat feeding bottle with a wide mouth or opening at its
end closable by a closing piece, adapted to afford direct and ready access to the
interior for cleansing as set forth.
2. The arrangements or combinations of parts of feeding bottles as shown and
described.