A New or Improved Milk Sterilizing Device or Apparatus more particularly intended for Domestic Use.
Year: 1899

page_text: A New or Improved Milk Sterilizing Device or Apparatus more
particularly intended for Domestic Use.
I. HERBERT CHILD, of 101, Oxford Road, Reading, Berks, Surgeon, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved sterilizing device or apparatus
more particularly intended for domestic use, and in connection with the steri-
lizing of milk for the feeding of infants, the object being to provide an in-
expensive device or apparatus by means of which the required quantity of milk
for the feeding of infants can be thoroughly sterilized at home, without recourse
being had to elaborate and expensive apparatus.
In carrying this invention into practical effect, this improved device or
apparatus comprises any required number of small bottles or other receptacles
preferably corresponding to the number of meals the child is to receive during
the day, and these bottles are loosely arranged within a wire or other stand, so
that the whole may be readily plunged within a saucepan or other suitable
culinary utensil.
When required for use the required quantity of milk for one meal is placed
in each of the bottles or receptacles, and the top of each bottle is then closed
or plugged with absorbent cotton wool, or a rubber teat may be employed for
this purpose. The whole are then lifted and plunged into a saucepan or other
suitable culinary utensil containing water to the height of the milk in the
bottles or receptacles, which is then heated to the required degree.
Dated this 7th day of December 1899.
F. G. CASSELL
(Of Cassell & Co.),
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agents for the Applicant.
A New or Improved Milk Sterilizing Device or Apparatus more
particularly intended for Domestic Use.
I, HERBERT CHILD, of 101, Oxford Road, Reading, Berks, Surgeon, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to a new or improved device or apparatus for the
pasteurization or sterilizing of milk more particularly intended for domestic
use, and in connection with the pasteurization or sterilizing of milk for the

page_text: feeding of infants, the object being to provide an inexpensive device or
apparatus by means of which the required quantity of milk for the feeding of
infants can be thoroughly sterilized at home without recourse being had to
elaborate and expensive apparatus.
In carrying this invention into practical effect, this improved device or
apparatus comprises any required number of small bottles or other receptacles,
preferably corresponding to the number of meals the child is to receive during
the day, and these bottles are loosely arranged within a wire or other stand, so
that the whole may be readily plunged within a saucepan or other suitable
culinary utensil.
When required for use, the required quantity of milk for one meal is placed
in each of the bottles or receptacles, and the top of each bottle is then closed
or plugged with absorbent cotton wool, or a rubber teat may be employed for
this purpose. The whole are then lifted, and plunged into a saucepan or other
suitable culinary utensil containing water to the height of the milk in the
bottles or receptacles, which is then heated to the required_degree.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood I will now proceed
do describe same with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which:-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the device.
Fig. 2 is a plan.
In carrying this invention into practical effect, and in the form shewn in the
rawings, I prefer to employ a stand consisting of circular metal plates a a
supported the required distance apart by wires c. the lower extremities of which
pass through the lower plate a¹ and are suitably bent to form feet e¹, while
through the centre of the plates a a¹, I arrange a vertical wire, the upper
extremity of which is bent into circular form to form a handle w².
I further provide a sufficient number of receptacles (6 for example), preferably
taking the form of small bottles such as b, and in the top plate a of the stand, I
form a corresponding number of openings through which the bottles 6 pass, so
as to rest upon and he supported by the lower plate a¹ of the said stand, while the
mouth of each bottle, I prefer to close by a plug 9 of absorbent cotton wool, but
I may use a rubber teat for this purpose, or sufficiently close the top of the
bottles in any other convenient and suitable manner.
In practice, the bottles cach receive a sufficient quantity of milk for one
meal, and are placed in the stand, and the whole is then lowered into a sauce-
pan or other culinary utensil containing a sufficient quantity of water to reach
to the height of the milk contained within the bottles or recentacles b. which
is then sufficiently heated for the pasteurization or sterilizing of the milk.
In this manner a sufficiently quantity of milk is always ready for each meal,
and if not of the required temperature, may be sufficiently warmed before plac-
ing in the feeding bottle or the like by removing one of the bottles from the
stand. and immersing it a sufficient length of time in hot water contained in
any suitable receptacle.
Although I prefer to employ a stand of the kind shewn in the drawings, I
wish it to be understood that I do not restrict myself in this respect, as I may
employ a stand constructed wholly or partially of wire or other suitable
material, the only essential being that it shall efficiently support the bottles as
required.
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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/. A new or improved device or apparatus for the pasteurization or sterilizing
of milk, more particularly intended for domestic use, arranged and operating
substantially as herein described and shewn with reference to the accompanyings,
and for the purposes specified.
2. In a device or apparatus for the pasteurization or sterilizing of milk, and

page_text: more particularly intended for domestic use, the combination with bottles or
receptacles such as b, the mouth of each of which is designed to be closed by a
plug of absorbent cotton wool, or by an india-rubber teat or in any other con-
venient and suitable manner; of a suitable stand designed to support the said
bottles in such a manner as to allow of their being simultaneously lowered into
a saucepan or other culinary utensil, and there heated to the required degree,
substantially as herein described and shewn with reference to the accompanying
drawings, and for the purposes specified.
3. In a device or apparatus for the pasteurization or sterilizing of milk and
more particularly intended for domestic use, the combination with bottles or
receptacles such as ; of a stand consisting of an upper perforated plate such as a
through which the bottles pass, a lower or base plate al designed to support the
said bottles, and retained at the required distance from the plate a¹ by wires
such as c, the lower extremities of which are suitably bent to form supporting
feet c, and having a central vertical wire w passing through the plates a a¹,
bent at its upper extremity into a ring as at ¹, to form a handle for lifting the
device the whole combined, arranged and operating substantially as herein de-
scribed and shewn with reference to the accompanying drawings and for the
purposes specified.
Dotad thin 7th day of Cantankou 1000
F. G. CASSELL
(Of Cassell & Co.),
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W..
Agents for the Applicant.
F. G. CASSELL
(Of Cassell & Co.),
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agents for the Applicant.