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

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 26th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 27th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Feeding Teats for Bottles, Soothing Teats and
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 to be as follows:-
Our invention is to develope our first invention No. 14708 accepted the
14th of September 1892.
It relates to give better means for the lips of the mouth of the infant to hold
the teat and also to facilate the breathing of the infant while drawing or sucking
milk or such like food from a feeding bottle or when useing a soothing teat or
teething pad.
The invention consists in forming the teat with corrugations, or having rising
surfaces and hollows, also to combine with the said teat a shield or protector
formed with corrugations or rising surfaces and hollows so that the lips of the
infant, while holding very safely the teat, will be protected from suffocation by the
shield or protector as described above. The shield or protector and, teat:may be
made in one piece or seperately.
Dated this 19th day of October 1892.
HYPPOLITE BESSON.
WILLIAM. CHARLES HAWTIN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Feeding Teats for Bottles, Soothing Teats and
Teething Pads, and such like articles used by Infants.
HYPPOLITE BESSON, Mechanical Engineer of 63 Alexandra Road, Hornsey
in the County of Middlesex, and WILLIAM CHARLES HAWTIN Foreman, of
26 Norman Terrace, Selby Road Leytonstone in the 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:-
This invention is to develope our first invention No. 14708 dated August 15th 1892.
It relates to give better means to the lips of the mouth of the infant to hold
the teat, and also to facilitate the breathing of the infant while drawing or sucking
milk, or such like food from a feeding bottle or when using a soothing teat or
teething pad.
The invention consists in forming the teat with corrugations or having rising
surfaces and hollows,, also to combine with the said teat a shield or protector
formed with corrugations or rising surfaces and hollows, so that the lips of the
infant while holding very safely the teat will also be protected from suffocation by
the shield or protector described above.
The shape of the rising surfaces and hollows' of the teat can be varied so as to
offer the most pleasing and safe holding to the lips or gums of the infant, without
departing from this invention. The rising surfaces and hollows may be formed of
semi-cubes, semi-spheres, or of small pyramids, cones, or of weaved ribs, corrugations
or bulbs or of any such combined, shapes.
An ordinary teat is composed of two parts, the bulb and the stem, the bulb is
the part held by the lips or gums of the infant and is the most enlarged part of

page_text: the teat, it is made either spherical, balloon, or oval shape, while the stem starts at
the rear of the bulb, with a décending curve, forming a narrow tube, which is
generally ended or strengthened by an annular projection or rim.
As the bulb in ordinary teats is the only part which is used by the infant to
hold the teat and being the only enlarged and projecting part of the teat, it is
evident the infant can easily let slip this only projecting bulb out of its mouth,
but by our invention, the teat being formed of several combined rising surfaces
and hollows, such as a teat shewn in Fig. 2, the infant may let slip one or two
rising surfaces or hollows, and still retain the teat in its mouth by the following or
last rising surface still left in its mouth; also the action of passing and repassing
to & fro of such a formed teat, between the gums, will produce comfort & enjoy:
ment to the infant especially while teething.
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 drawing
hereinto attached in which the same letters indicate like.parts.
Fig. 1 to Fig. 5 represent diagrams of various teats formed and made according
to this invention.
Fig. 2 and Fig. 3. represent two teats having the rising surfaces a. a. a. . . . and
hollows b. b. b. . . . formed of smooth or soft weaved forms. Fig. 1 is a section of the
teat Fig. 2. which shews the sectional thickness of the envelope or skin d. d..
even or equal at any part of the teat except at the rim or annular projection c.
The teat formed of smooth or soft weaved form is made by the ordinary
process of seamless teats, which will produce the same substance at any part of
its section, thus the rising surfaces will be the same thickness as the hollows, so
that a teat is obtained having the skin or envelope of even thickness and. also
having the inside surface always parallel to the outer surface similar to the
ordinary seamless teat.
Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 represent two teats formed of small and sharp rising
surfaces a. a. a.
and hollows b. b. b. in this case the rising surfaces and
hollows are only formed upon the outside skin or envelope of the teat, the interior
surface L. only follows the general shape of the teat, without following the
outside of the rising surfaces and hollows. In these teats the envelope is thicker
at the rising surfaces a. a. a. . . . than at the hollows b. b. b.
in reality the
outside rising surfaces and hollows are built up or formed on the skin of the
general inside outline L. see part section in Fig. 5.
We are aware that several attempts have been made to make the ordinary teat
to hold better in the mouth of the infant, either by enlarging the bulb or adding
an extra projection or rim at the largest extremity of the bulb, or by slightly
altering the shape of the bulb, but we are not aware that an india-rubber teat
has ever been made or formed with a combination of two or more rising surfaces,
and two or more hollows such as above illustrated.
Having thus fully described the nature of our invention, and the manner by
which it is performed we declare that we claim―
An india rubber teat, either to be used for feeding bottles, soothing teats;
teething pads, and such like articles used by infants, formed and combined of two
or more rising surfaces a. a. a.... and two or more hollows b. b. b. . . . substantially
to and for the purpose herein described and illustrated by accompanying
drawings.
Dated the 26th day of Anril 1893
HYPPOLITE BESSON.
WILLIAM CHARLES HAWTIN.