Improvements in and connected with Teats for Baby Soothers and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Teats for Baby Soothers and
the like.
1, AARON SMITH CARTWRIGHT of 75 Ford Street, Hockley, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to means for fastening dummy teats and also the teats of
infants feeding-bottle tubes, rattles, pacifiers, rings, whistles and the like, to the
shields, bodies, stems or other fixed parts of the said articles.
By the old method of attachment, the teats are liable to become disconnected or
drawn from their shields, stems or carriers when unduly pulled, and become loose
in the mouth and choke the infant using the same.
By my improvements the said teats are made more secure by so forming the
means of attachment that the greater the teat is pulled the faster it is held.
In carrying out one form of my improvements in connection with an ordinary
babies dummy teat and shield, I form the entrance to the throat or open back of
the teat, which is of india-rubber, with a rolled edge and I fit within the interior
of the same, a conical-sided cup, with or without a flange upon its edge, and having
holes within the closed end, wherethrough the ends of a shank formed from wire
are passed and secured.
Thus the shank, which is made from wire, is doubled up and the ends are passed
from the back of the cup through the holes therein and are then brought back
again loop-wise. This cup connection is passed into the entrance to the throat of
the teat, which is expanded thereby and the teat is then threaded through a hole
in the shield of an outside diameter a little greater than the diameter of the
narrower part of the cup, so that as the pull comes upon the teat, the cup is partly
drawn through the hole, and the walls of the rubber teat, at the throat part, are
nipped between the shield and the conical clamping attachment.
The outer end of the shank is then passed through a hole in a ring, when the
end, which extends inwards beyond the edge of the said ring, is then expanded into
a loop of a greater size than the hole in the ring, thereby forming a swivelling
connection.
Instead of employing a metallic shank, I may make the connection between the
ring and the cup attachment by a string passing through the piercing of the cup
and also through the ring and then subsequently tied, hence a flexible connection.
I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the means of connecting
the conical cup to the other parts as this may be done in other ways without
departing from the nature of my invention.
The application of my invention to means for connecting dummy and other teats
to feeding bottle tubes, rattles, pacifiers, whistles or the like, differs in no essential
respect from its application to the means of connection between a dummy teat and
a ring as herein before described, but I wish it to be understood that the cup
connection may be made of wood, vulcanite or other material than metal, and in
the case of feeding bottle teats, they have holes through them to admit of the

page_text: passage of liquid therethrough, the connection has a beading edge upon and over
which the conducting tube is slipped and secured.
Dated this 28th day of June 1895.
AARON SMITH CARTWRIGHT,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in and connected with Teats for Baby Soothers and
the like.
I, AARON SMITH CARTWRIGHT, of 75 Ford Street, Hockley, in the City of
Birmingham, 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:-
This invention relates to means for fastening dummy teats of rattles, pacifiers,
rings, whistles and the like, to the shields, bodies, stems or other fixed parts of the
said articles.
By the old method of attachment, the teats are liable to become disconnected or
drawn from their shields stems or carriers when unduly pulled, and become loose
in the mouth and choke the infant using the same.
By my improvements the said teats are made more secure by so forming the
means of attachment that the greater the teat is pulled the faster it is held.
In carrying out one form of my improvements in connection with an ordinary
babies dummy teat and shield, I form the entrance to the throat or open back of
the teat, which is of india-rubber, with a rolled edge and I fit within the interior
of the same, a conical-sided cup, with or without a flange upon its edge, and having
holes within the closed end, wherethrough the ends of a shank formed from wire
are passed and secured.
Thus the shank, which is made from wire, is doubled up and the ends are passed
from the back of the cup through the holes therein and are then brought back
again loop-wise. This cup connection is passed into the entrance to the throat
of the teat, which is slightly expanded thereby and the teat is then threaded through
a hole in the shield, of an outside diameter a little greater than the diameter of the
narrower part of the cup, so that as the pull comes upon the teat, the cup is partly
drawn through the hole, and the walls of the rubber teat, at the throat part, are
nipped between the shield and the conical clamping attachment.
The outer end of the shank is then passed through a hole in a ring, when the
end, which extends inwards beyond the edge of the said ring, is then expanded into
a loop of a greater size than the hole in the ring, thereby forming a swivelling
connection.
Instead of employing a metallic shank, I may make the connection between the
ring and the cup attachment by a string passing through the piercing of the cup
and also through the ring and then subsequently tied, hence a Hexible connection.
I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the means of connecting
the conical cup to the other parts as this may be done in other ways without
departing from the nature of niy invention.
The application of my invention to means for connecting duminy teats to feeding
bottle tubes, rattles, pacifiers whistles or the like, differs in no essential respect
from its application to the means of connection between a duminy teat and a ring
as herein before described, but I wish it to be understood that the cup connection
may be made of wood, vulcanite or other material than metal, and in the case of
leeding bottle teats, they have holes through them to admit of the passage of liquid

page_text: therethrough, and the connection has a beaded edge upon and over which the
conducting tube is slipped and secured.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents, in vertical section, a combined
dummy teat and jingle, (commonly known as pacifiers) with the said teat connected
to the stem by means constructed according to one form of my invention.
Figure 2 represents the dummy teat end of the said article.
Figure 3 is a cross section of Figure 1, upon the dotted line, looking towards
the shield.
Figure 4 is a front elevation and section of the shield, and
Figure 5 is a section and back elevation of the cup or attachment means.
In Figures 1 to 5, a is an india-rubber dummy teat, provided with a shield b,
through a hole 6', in which the entrance or mouth end a², of the said teat passes
and is secured by a cup or conoidal shell c, fitted within the mouth or entrance to
the said teat and being generally of greater diameter than the hole in the shield.
d is a sbank or wire, which passes through an axial hole e² in the stem e, and has
a loop end d', taking into the inside of the cup, and with the other end d², turned
outwards lying within the inside of the bell or jingle f
gis a cord passing round the stem for suspending the article.
Figure 6 represents a combined teat and ring, with the said teat connected to the
shield by a modified form of my invention.
Figure 7 represents the attachment cup and its tie separately and Figure 8 is a
side elevation of the component parts shown in Figure 7 put together.
a is the teat, with a mouth entrance a³, around which a shield b, is fitted and
within which a cup or conoidal attachment shell c, is located and is connected to
the ring e, by a shank d, whilst a cord g is passed through the looped end d', of the
said shank.
Figure 9 represents a still further form of my improvements.
Figure 10 represents the means of securing the teat to the ring separately.
In Figures 9 and 10, a is a dumny teat, b is the shield fastening over the mouth
end a', of the said teat, and with beads, spheres or their equivalents c, c', connected
together by a cord y, located within the interior a², of the said mouth end and
coming upon the two opposite sides of the shield.
By such an arrangement the teat is prevented from being drawn through the
shield or from off its connection means in either direction.
Figure 11 represents the application of my invention to a feeding bottle teat.
Figure 12 represents the conical shell separately. This shell has an all-through
passage through it.
Figure 13 is a separate view of the shield, the hole through which is less in
diameter than the largest end of the shell.
a is the teat, the shield, c is a conoidal shaped tubular shell with a shank c¹,
over which the end, of a conducting tube d, passes and is there affixed by the
beading or shoulder. The teat is prevented from being separated from the shield
by the clamping of the walls of the same between the outside of the conoidal end
of the shell c, and the edge of the hole in the shield.
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 :-
First. Securing teats against being disconnected from or drawn off their
connections by a cup, conoidal shell, bead or equivalent means located within the
interior and at the mouth end of the teat, substantially as herein described and set
forth.
Secondly. The means for securing teats to various articles substantially as
described and set forth in Figures 1 to 8 and 9 to 11.
Thirdly. The double locking means for securing teats to various articles and
preventing the same being drawn through their shields or being disconnected either

page_text: forwardly or backwardly substantially as herein described and set forth in Figures 9
and 10.
Dated this 13th day of January 1896
AARON SMITH CARTWRIGHT,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.