AN IMPROVED FEEDER FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Solomon Maw, of Aldersgate Street, in the City of
London, Surgical Instrument Maker, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
FEEDER FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD."
Sealed the 18th January 1859, and dated the 19th July 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Solomon Maw at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th July 1858.
I, SOLOMON MAW, of Aldersgate Street, in the City of London, Surgical
Instrument Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED FEEDER FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to prevent air being drawn in by a child
while feeding from a feeder, and at the same time to produce a simple
apparatus, and one readily kept clean and wholesome.
I construct my feeder thus:-Into an ordinary bottle with a short neck, or
into a jar, I introduce a tube extending to near the bottom of the bottle, and
slightly curved at its lower end; upon this tube I fix or cast a rim or collar,
which fits tightly into the mouth of the bottle and forms a stopper, the tube
tnen rises in a bent or curved direction from the outside of the collar, has a
nozzle or double ring formed thereon or applied thereto, and is continued for
about an inch therefrom; an india-rubber or other teat is placed over the
mouth of the tube and is fixed upon the nozzle or double ring.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Solomon Maw in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
19th January 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SOLOMON
MAW, of Aldersgate Street, in the City of London, Surgical Instrument
Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Solomon Maw, Her special licence that I, the said Solomon Maw,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Solomon Maw, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
FEEDER FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Solomon Maw, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Solomon Maw, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say:-
The object of my Invention is to prevent air being drawn in by a child
while feeding from a feeder, and at the same time to produce a simple
apparatus, and one readily kept clean and wholesome.
I construct my feeder thus:-Into an ordinary bottle with a short neck, or
into a jar, I introduce a tube extending to near the bottom of the bottle, and
slightly curved at its lower end; upon this tube I fix or cast a rim or collar,
which fits tightly into the mouth of the bottle and forms a stopper, the tube
then rises in a bent or curved direction from the outside of the collar, has a
nozzle or double ring formed thereon or applied thereto, and is continued for

page_text: about an inch therefrom; an india-rubber or other seat is placed over the
mouth of the tube and is fixed upon the nozzle or double ring.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings shews my feeder complete, and
Figure 2 the tube detached. A is a glass bottle with a lining of cork in the
inside of the mouth; B is a metal tube, which should be of tin or other
metal which will not affect the food imbibed through it; C is a metal stopper
through which the tube passes, and in which it is hermetically fixed; D is
a double ring formed on the tube for holding one of my improved india-
rubber nipples or other description of teat.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the improved
feeder constructed as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Solomon Maw, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of January, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine.