Improvements in Feeding Bottles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 10th. May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 10th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Feeding Bottles.
I ROBERT ORROCK of Wallis Road Hackney in the County of Middlesex
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is so to construct and fit feeding bottles of all
descriptions and especially those for infants that the nipples or teats thereof shall
be very firmly secured thereto and cannot readily be drawn away from the same
although they can be very easily affixed to the same while at the same time my
invention secures many other desiderata such for example as the rendering it
impossible that the nipples or teats can be drawn too far into the mouths.
To carry out this object I make a feeding bottle of any material and of any
desired style and size and shape and at or to any required part of this bottle I form
or attach or connect a mouth or opening in the shape of a collar or short tube. For
and to this mouth I fix a plug with a broad large head and this plug is preferably
secured in the mouth by being screwed thereinto any proper washers being fitted if
desired to make the same tight. Centrally through the plug is made an aperture
which is preferably much larger at the inner end of the plug than it is at the outer
end where also may be formed a flange or projection all round this aperture thus
still further narrowing the same. The nipple or teat may be made in any usual
manner and of any desired style and size and preferably has round its base a
bulbous enlargement or an external flange and this nipple or teat is passed through
and along the aperture in the plug from its inner end and drawn out through its
outer end until the base thereof is firmly held by the narrowed outer end of the
aperture when the plug can be screwed or otherwise secured in the mouth of the
feeding bottle which is then ready for use.
Dated this 10th day of May 1892.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Feeding Bottles.
I ROBERT ORROCK of Wallis Road Hackney in the County of Middlesex
Manufacturer 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 object of this my invention is so to construct and fit feeding bottles of all
descriptions and more especially those for infants that the nipples or teats thereof
shall be very firmly and safely secured and held therein and cannot by accident or
misadventure be drawn away or detached from the feeding bottles although they
can very easily and readily be affixed or attached to the same and further by this
my invention many and various other advantages and desiderata are secured where-
amongst I may mention the following that is to say-the prevention of the spilling
of any of the liquid in the bottle-the rendering it impossible that the nipple or
teat can be drawn too far into the mouth-and the easiness of performance and the
economy of time and material and therefore of expense whereby any desired or
necessary repair or renewal may be effected.
In order the more clearly to explain this my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing wherein I have
shewn & longitudinal section of part of a feeding bottle as constructed according to
and fitted with my invention..

page_text: The feeding bottle A may be made of any suitable and usual or other material
and of any desirable or expedient style and shape and size and at or in any
preferable or convenient part of or position in this bottle A is constructed or formed
therewith or is securely attached or connected thereto a mouth or opening B in
the style and shape of a collar or neck or a short tube of the desired size.
For and to the mouth B of the bottle A is constructed and fitted a plug D formed
with a broad enlarged head E and likewise made of any suitable and usual or other
material it may perhaps most conveniently be of the same material as the bottle A
and this plug D can be firmly and tightly secured in the mouth B in any convenient
and ordinary or other manner preferably perhaps as is indicated in the drawing by
being screwed thereinto by and through its enlarged head E any proper and
customary or other washer or washers F being if and when desired fitted and inter-
posed between the lips or end of the mouth B and the enlarged head E to assist in
making this plug tight. Longitudinally and centrally in and through the
plug D is made an aperture or passage H which most conveniently and suitably is
tapered as is shewn in the drawing or that is to say is larger at the inner end of the
plug D than it is at the outer end of the same at which outer end also may
preferably be formed an internal shoulder or flange or projection K all round this
aperture H whereby this the outer end of the same is still further contracted and
narrowed.
The nipple or teat M may be made of any suitable and convenient material in
any usual or other manner and of any desirable or expedient style and shape and
size and on and round the base or inner end N of the same is constructed or formed
therewith or is securely attached or connected thereto a bulbous enlargement as is
shewn in the drawing or it may be an external flange or other similar and suitable
excrescence whereby this base N of the nipple or teat M is larger than is ordinarily
customary.
To secure the nipple or teat M in the plug D the outer end thereof may be
passed through and along the aperture H in the plug D from its inner end and may
be pushed or drawn out through its outer end or conversely the base N of the
nipple or teat M may be pushed or drawn in it can conveniently be by a looped
string or other suchlike appliance through the outer end of the aperture H in the
plug D in both or either of these methods of procedure until the enlarged base N
of the nipple or teat M is properly placed as is shewn in the drawing just inside
the contracted and narrowed outer end of the aperture H in the plug D and the
shoulder or flange or projection K if any therearound whereby this nipple or
teat M is very firmly and safely secured and held in position in such plug D by its
enlarged base N as is desired.
The required liquid can then be poured into or placed in the bottle A and the
plug D can be screwed into or otherwise secured in the mouth B of the same when
this feeding bottle A is ready for use.
I may mention the fact that when the aperture H in the plug D is tapered as is
shewn in the drawing or that is to say when as is hereinbefore described the inner
end of such aperture H is larger than the outer end thereof it is not absolutely
necessary to form the aforesaid internal shoulder or flange or projection K ail
round such outer end although it may be preferable so to do but when the
aperture H in the plug D is of the same size throughout its length or that is to say
when the inner end of such aperture H is not larger than the outer end thereof but
is of the same size the aforesaid internal shoulder or flange or projection K must be
formed round the outer end of the aperture H in the plug D to secure the base N
of the nipple or teat M and firmly and safely to hold the same in position in such
plug D.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
'claim is

page_text: having a longitudinal aperture H wherein can be held the enlarged base N of a
nipple or teat M substantially as hereinbefore described and set forth.
2. The improvements in feeding bottles substantially as hereinbefore described
and shewn in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this Oth day of Foliary 1803
HART & Co.,
186, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agents.