IMPROVEMENTS IN FEEDING BOTTLES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Waters Coleman, of the City of London,
Engineer, and Samuel Turton, of Heaton Norris, in the County
of Lancaster, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FEEDING BOTTLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Waters Coleman and
Samuel Turton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 1st July 1869.
We, WATERS COLEMAN, of the City of London, Engineer, and SAMUEL
TURTON, of Heaton Norris, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FEEDING BOTTLES," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is so to construct a feeding bottle as to
keep a child's food good and free from taint during the whole of the
time that the child is likely to suck at the bottle so that the bottle also
shall not allow the food to spill. The feeding bottles now in use are

page_text: very objectionable as the food fouls rapidly immediately the cork or
stopper is inserted, inasmuch as the stopper prevents the due admission
of air which is necessary to preserve a food containing milk free from
taint. For this purpose we provide in the side or other convenient
part of the bottle an opening for the free admission of air, and the
contents of the bottle are prevented escaping from this opening by a
tube or hollow truncated cone extending from the opening into the
bottle, and terminating within the bottle at such a point that when the
bottle is not over filled the contents may not be able to flow out through
it in any position of the bottle. The mouth of the bottle receives a
suitable stopper provided with a flexible tube with an india-rubber
nipple at the end at which the child sucks. The bottle is by preference
made of glass, but it may be made of other materials,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Waters Coleman and Samuel Turton in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 31st December 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WATERS
COLEMAN, of the City of London, Engineer, and SAMUEL TURTON, of
Heaton Norris, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Waters Coleman and Samuel Turton,
Her special licence that we, the said Waters Coleman and Samuel
Turton, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said Waters Coleman and Samuel Turton, our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FEEDING BOTTLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Waters Coleman and Samuel Turton, our executors or administrators, by

page_text: an instrument in writing under our or their hands and scals, or under
the hand and seal of one of us or them, should particularly 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 Waters Coleman on behalf of
myself and the said Samuel Turton, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is so to construct a feeding bottle as to
keep a child's food good and free from taint during the whole of the
time that the child is likely to suck at the bottle and so that the bottle
also shall not allow the food to spill. The feeding bottles now in use
are very objectionable as the food fouls rapidly immediately the cork or
stopper is inserted, inasmuch as the stopper prevents the due admission
of air which is necessary to preserve a food containing milk free from
taint. For this purpose we provide in the side or other convenient part
of the bottle an opening for the free admission of air, and the contents
of the bottle are prevented escaping from this opening by a tube or
hollow truncated cone extending from the opening into the bottle, and
terminating within the bottle at such a point that when the bottle is
not over filled the contents may not be able to flow out through it in
any position of the bottle. The mouth of the bottle receives a suitable
stopper provided with a flexible tube with an india-rubber nipple at the
end at which the child sucks. The bottle is by preference made of
glass, but it may be of other materials.
Various methods in which the feeding bottles may be constructed are
shown in the annexed Drawings.
Figure 1 is an arrangement in which the air cone or tube is introduced
into the side of the bottle, a socket or mouth being there formed to
receive it. Into this socket tlie cone or tube is fitted, and a ring of
cork or other soft material is placed around its shoulder to make a
tight joint, or the air cone or tube may be ground into its socket, or
the air cone or tube may be formed in one piece with the side of the
bottle.

page_text: Figure 2 shows a similar arrangement with the air cone or tube
entering the bottle lower down and inclined upwards in place of
downwards.
Figure 3 shows the air cone or tube inserted at the bottom of the
bottle, and Figure 4 shows it inserted at the top, in which case it may be
fitted into the cap.
In witness whereof, I, the said Waters Coleman, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
WATERS COLEMAN. (L.S.)