Improved Means for Indicating the Temperature of the Contents of Feeding Bottles and other Vessels.
Year: 1893

page_text: השתגע
Improved Means for Indicating the Temperature of the Contents of
Feeding Bottles and other Vessels.
We GUSTAV MORITZ, News Publisher, of. 12, Deutsche Strasse, and GUSTAV
MATTHIAS, Traveller, of 45, Bogislavstrasse, both in Stettin, in the Empire of
Germany, 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 relates to vessels for containing food, such as feeding bottles for
infants and other vessels to contain, for example, food for invalids, etc., and
it has for its object to enable the nurse or attendant to see at a glance the
temperature of the contents of the vessel and thus avoid all risk of administering
the food in an excessively heated condition to the patient or infant.
To this end our invention consists in the employment of a frame or stand adapted
to receive the vessel and of a thermometer of such form and so combined with
the vessel that it will be very sensitive to the heat of the contents whose temperature
it will accurately indicate.
The invention will be described with reference to a bottle of the form shewn in
the accompanying drawings, but it will be understood that our invention is not
limited in this respect.
In the drawings,
Figure 1 shews the bottle in clevation with our device applied.
Figure 2 is a plan and Figure 3 a cross-section on line A-B Figure 1.
a is the bottle and the thermometer which, instead of being of the ordinary
round shape, is of ellipsoidal form and curved to correspond to the contour of the
bottle, as shewn at c, so as to bring a comparatively large surface of the thermometer
into close proximity with the vessel and thus cause the temperature of the liquid
to be readily transmitted to the indicator. The base d of the frame is dished to
receive the bottom portion of the bottle a and is enlarged to receive the bulb of the
thermometer and protect it from injury. The thermometer is secured at the top
to the ring e forming the upper part of the frame which is attached to the base d
by means of legs or distance pieces f.
The frame may be applied to a bottle or glass, etc., of any character provided
that it fits the vessel so as to cause the thermometer to come into close contact
with the vessel.
This contrivance is extremely handy for ascertaining the approximate temperature
of liquids when feeding patients, etc., as it furnishes an expeditious means of
communicating the heat of the liquid contents of the bottle to the mercury in
the thermometer, from which the temperature can be accurately read off.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
The herein described means for enabling the temperature of the contents of a
feeding bottle, glass, or other vessel for containing food, to be readily ascertained,
consisting of a thermometer and a frame or support for the thermometer, the
thermometer being of such form that it presents a comparatively large surface to
contact with the vessel, and the frame being adapted to be applied to and receive

page_text: the bottle or other vessel and maintain the thermometer in position, substantially as
shewn and described.
Dated this 6th day of December 1893.
G. MORITZ,
G. MATTHIAS,
.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
G. MORITZ,
G. MATTHIAS,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.