Improvements in Apparatus for Cleansing the Tubes of Infants' Feeding Bottles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 13th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Cleansing the Tubes of Infants'
Feeding Bottles.
I FREDERICK WILLIAM GELDER of 24 Elmifield Terrace, Savile Park, Halifax
in the County of York, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
The apparatus now employed for cleansing the tubes of feeding bottles consists
of a metallic brush with stem; when drawing the brush through the tube, the
stem of the brush has to be bent or doubled down to get the necessary grip and
afterwards straightened before it can again be passed through the tube, this bending
frequently breaks the stem and renders the brush useless.
I construct the stem of my brush preferably with a narrow loop at the end, in
which is pivotted a cross piece so constructed and arranged that, when it is required
to pass the stem through the tube it lays in a horizontal position within the loop,
and when the brush requires pulling through the tube, the cross piece can be put at
right angles to the stem, and used as a handle to same, so giving the required grip
without bending the stem.
Dated this Second day of June 1891.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Cleansing the Tubes of Infants'
Feeding Bottles.
I FREDERICK WILLIAM GELDER of 24 Elmfield Terrace, Saville Park, Halifax
in the County of York, Manager, 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 :-
The apparatus now employed for cleaning the tubes of feeding bottles, consists
of a brush with metallic stem; when drawing the brush through the tube, the stem
of the brush has to be bent or turned down, to get the necessary grip, and afterwards
straightened before it can again be passed through the tube; this bending
frequently breaks the stem or pierces the tube, and renders the brush or tube
useless.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shows side elevation of brush with cross piece in position for passing
through the tube.
Fig. 2 is a front elevation of brush with cross-piece (at right angles to brush) in
position for pulling the brush through the tube.
I construct the stem A of my brush B, preferably with a narrow loop C at the
end, in which is pivotted a cross-piece D, so constructed and arranged that when it
is required to pass the stem through the tube, it lays in a horizontal position within
the loop, see Fig. 1: and when the brush requires pulling through the tube, the
cross-piece can be put at right angles to the stem, see Fig. 2; and used as a handle
to same, so giving the required grip without bending the stem.
Price 8d 1

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that, what I
claim is
Upon brushes for cleaning the tubes of feeding bottles or other tubes, the use
and employment of a cross-piece or handle, which can be placed either in a
horizontal position, or at right angles to the brush stem, for the purposes such as
shown and described.
Dated this Twelfth day of W 1802
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Agent for the Applicant.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Agent for the Applicant.