An Improvement applicable to Feeding Bottles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 11th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 9th May, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement applicable to Feeding Bottles.
We THOMAS EGGINGTON of 7 Grosvenor Street, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Surgical Instrument Maker, and JAMES MILLIN BREWER of
41 Dixon Street, Lincoln, Railway Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this.
invention to be as follows:-
It is a well known fact that infants' feeding bottles as at present constructed are
liable when placed on a table, or elsewhere, to part with their liquid contents owing
to the syphoning action which takes place through the india rubber tube when the
mouth piece or teat is below the level of the liquid in the bottle.
The object of this invention is to prevent such escape and waste of food, and the
improvement consists in the combination with the neck of such infant's feeding
bottle of means for supporting the mouthpiece or teat above the level of the liquid
contents of the bottle so as to prevent such syphoning action, or dripping, when the
bottle is placed upright on a table or otherwise.
In applying the invention to an ordinary glass feeding bottle a convenient way is
to attach a flat metallic hook to the neck of the bottle by means of an india rubber
ring, and to cut a slot near the edge of the flat ivory shield or disc which is
applied to the tube just below the mouth piece or teat, so that when not in use the
latter may be fastened or hooked to the neck of the bottle, and thus hold the
mouth-piece or teat above the level of the liquid in the bottle.
In applying this invention to such forms of feeding bottle as are supplied with a.
metal band or ring round the neck, the india rubber ring may be dispensed with.
and the hook be rivetted, or soldered, or otherwise fixed onto the metal band.
It will be evident that other simple means may be devised for temporarily
attaching the mouth piece or teat to the neck of the bottle so as to keep it above
the level of the liquid in the interior of the same, and thus prevent the waste of
the food by syphoning action or dripping as above described.
Dated this 11th day of July 1895.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square,. Manchester, Agents for the Applicants..
An Improvement applicable to Feeding Bottles.
We THOMAS EGGINGTON of 7 Grosvenor Street, Manchester in the County
of Lancaster, Surgical Instrument Maker, and JAMES MILLIN BREWER of
41 Dixon Street Lincoln, Railway Clerk, 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 :-
It is a well known fact that infants' feeding bottles as at present constructed are
liable when placed on a table or elsewhere to part with their liquid contents owing
to the syphoning action which takes place through the india rubber tube when the
mouthpiece or teat is below the level of the liquid in the bottle.

page_text: The object' of the present invention is to provide simple means for preventing
such escape and waste of food!
The nature of the invention and the manner in which the same is to be performed
will be readily understood on reference to the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed
and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 on the drawings is a side elevation and Fig. 2 a plan view of an infant's
feeding bottle with this invention shown as applied thereto, and Fig. 3 is a view of
the parts detached. Fig. 3 shews a modification thereof.
The invention consists in the combination with the neck of such feeding bottle of
simple means for supporting the mouthpiece or teat above the level of the liquid
contents of the bottle so as to prevent such syphoning action or dripping when the
bottle is placed, either upright, or lying down, on a table or otherwise.
In applying this invention to an ordinary glass feeding bottle (see drawing)
a convenient way is to attach a flat metallic hook a to the neck of the bottle by
means of an india rubber ring c, and to cut a slot (see Fig. 3) near the edge of the
flat ivory shield or disc d which is applied to the tube e just below the mouthpiece
or teat f, so that when not in use the latter may be fastened or hooked to the neck
of the bottle (as shown at Figs. 1 and 2) and thus hold the mouthpiece or teat f
above the level of the liquid in the bottle.
In applying this invention to such forms of feeding bottle as are supplied with a
metal band or ring round the neck the india rubber band or ring e may be dispensed
with and the hook a may be rivetted soldered or otherwise fixed onto the metal
band; and the hook a in any case may be of any suitable description such as a
plain hook see Fig. 3, or a safety or spring hook such as is illustrated at Fig. 3ª.
It will be evident that other simple means may be devised for temporarily
attaching the mouthpiece or teat to the neck of the bottle so as to keep it above
the level of the liquid in the interior of the same, and thus prevent the waste of food
by syphoning action or dripping as above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in. what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
'we claim is:-
The improvement applicable to infants' feeding bottles consisting in the
combination with the neck of such feeding bottle of a simple device (substantially
as herein before described) for temporarily attaching the mouthpiece or teat
thereto so as to support the same above the level of the liquid in the bottle so
as to prevent the waste of the food by the syphoning action or dripping as above
mentioned.
Dated this 9th day of Anril 1906
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.