Improvements in or relating to Infants' Teething Rings and other Teething Devices.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 20th Feb., 1892
Improvements in or relating to Infants' Teething Rings and other
Teething Devices.
I FREDERIC PARKINSON of 29 Melbourne Road Leicester Merchant 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 has reference to improvements in or relating to infants teething
rings and other teething devices and also attaching the same and other articles to
teats, pads mounts and the like.
The object being (a) to make or form teething devices of a shape that will enable
infants to get them well to their side gums when teething as rings are often too large
for that purpose and if the said rings be stall the mounts to which they are attached
are invariably thick in construction and prevents them from so doing, (b) to
construct teething rings and other teething devices in such a manner as to give
children the choice of a hard or soft substance to use, (c) to connect teething rings
and other articles to teats, pads &c. by means of indiarubber bands so as to keep
the shield in a more fixed position thereby preventing it moving about on the teat
or pad.
For these purposes I construct the teething devices hereinbefore mentioned in a
manner which permits of various modifications several of which are hereinafter
referred to and which consist essentially (1) In making such teething devices of an
oval or a spoon shape either endless as in a ring or preferably by means of a length
of indiarubber tubing or solid indiarubber, vulcanite, bone or other suitable
material, this length I bend or form until its two ends are brought together and
forms an oval or a spoon shape device, the ends may be inserted and affixed in a
teat, pad or other article by cementing or other means though I prefer to first bind
or affix then together with a piece of cord, metal or other material so as to form
what may be designated a neck part; the ends of the tubing forming what is termed
a head part on or to which the teat or other article is affixed. (2) To afford an
infant the option of either a hard or a soft substance when using a teething ring or
other teething device I put on teething rings and other teething devices made of
soft material such as indiarubber one or more rings or bands of bone or other
sufficiently rigid material and on hard teething rings and other teething devices
such as bone, vulcanite and other like materials I combine one or more rings or
bands of indiarubber or other sufficiently soft material. (3) In connecting rings
and other teething devices to teats, pads, mounts and other articles by means of
indiarubber bands having a neck part and a head part formed by binding or affixing
their ends together as hereinafter described if indiarubber tubing is used to form
such bands it may have a piece of cord or other filling inserted in the hole to give
it solidity on the aforesaid head and neck part the teat or other article is
affixed.
In order to more clearly illustrate the invention I have made reference to the
accompanying drawings illustrating the invention and various modifications thereof
but it will be readily understood that other forms methods and combinations are
available and permissible within the main lines of the invention.
Fig. 1 shows an oval or spoon shaped teething device made by bending a length
of indiarubber tubing A until its ends are brought side by side and then bound
together firmly near the ends with cord metal or other suitable material as at B and
o'still tighten it the binding may be passed crosswise between the ends in direction
of dotted lines J. the binding forming an indention which constitutes the neck part C.

page_text: the ends of the tubing forming a head part D. if necessary to make the tubing more
solid I insert within it a piece of cord, string, or other suitable material. K shows a
ring made of any suitable material bone preferred this said ring may be any
required size and may be put on either teething devices or the bands which connect
teething rings &c. to teats and other articles.
Fig. 2 represents Fig. 1 in combination with a teat F and a shield E affixed on
the head part D and the neck part C respectively as shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 represents a spoon shaped teething device A 1 having a neck and a head
part C and D formed of an indiarubber ring tied or otherwise affixed at B as shown
or it may be formed spoon shape by having a part of the ring affixed in a teat, pad
or mount.
Fig. 4 is a length of indiarubber tubing A bent as shown with a hole pierced or
cut near each of its ends G having a rigid piece of bone or suitable material L with
enlarged ends one of which ends is put through each hole the upper enlarged end
preventing the tubing slipping off and on the lower enlarged end the teat or pad is
affixed.
Fig. 5 shows an oval or spoon shaped teething device A 2 made of vulcanite or
other sufficiently rigid material having a neck and a head part formed at or near
its ends C1 and D 1. this teething device may be formed ring or other shape if
desired.
Fig. 6 represents a circular or ring shaped teething device A 3 made of the same
material as Fig. 5. if preferred it may be of a spoon or other shape having a neck
part C 2 and a head part D 2 formed at one end only.
Fig. 7 shows an ordinary bone teething ring A 4 having an indiarubber band P
passed through it its ends are bound or otherwise affixed together at or near Bas
shown thus forming a neck part C and a head part D on which the teat, pad or
other article may be affixed.
Fig. 8 is a teething ring made of indiarubber tubing having when necessary a
piece of cord or other suitable packing or filling material inserted as shown by
dotted lines, the ends of the tubing are then connected by cementing or otherwise
fastened together at H.
The rings or bands S on Figs. 5 and 7. represent soft bands or rings of india-
rubber on teething devices of more rigid material such as bone vulcanite &c. in
Fig. 2 the ring S is of bone or other sufficiently rigid substance and the teething
ring or other teething device is made of indiarubber or other soft material by this
combination the teething ring or other teething device will possess in or on itself
(independent of mounts or other articles to which they may be attached) a hard
and a soft part, so that a child can use either.
It must be understood however that I do not limit myself strictly to the
particular method of combining the hard and soft materials as described as other
ways and means can be readily adopted to serve the same purpose and I reserve to
myself the option of using any suitable combination or construction of rigid and soft
substances for the purpose named.
Although I have described the aforesaid rings and other teething devices and
connecting bands as made of indiarubber tubing and as being chiefly affixed to teats
and pads yet they may be affixed to suitable mounts and other articles and also
made of any suitable material and of any desirable size. In case the head and the
neck part should not be affixed in the ends of teats, pads or mounts it would not be
necessary to bring the ends of the tubing or other material of which the teething
device is formed quite together as described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :
1. The use and manufacture of an elongated or oval shaped infants teething
device of either hard or soft material substantially as and for the purpose
described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

page_text: 2. In an infants teething ring or other teething device the use or employment of
a combination of hard and soft materials substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. In an infants teething ring or other teething device also in the connecting
band of indiarubber the method of forming a neck and a head part C and D of
Figures 1. 3. 5. 6 & 7 respectively upon which the teat, pad or other article is
mounted or affixed substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
4. In the manufacture of infants teething rings and other teething devices the
use or employment of indiarubber tubing either with or without filling substantially
in the manner described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
5. In an infants teething device the use or employment of a length of indiarubber
tubing having a hole pierced or cut near each end and a peg or mount passed
through the same to receive the teat or pad substantially in the manner described
and illustrated in Fig. 4 of the accompanying drawings.
6. The improvements in infants teething rings and other teething devices
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 13th day of January 1892.
FREDERIC PARKINSON.