A New or Improved Appliance for or Adjunct to Feeding Bottles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 24th July, 1889-Accepted, 28th Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Appliance for or Adjunct to Feeding Bottles.
We ALFRED GREENBERG of 16 Fellows Road, South Hampstead in the County of.
Middlesex, Commercial Traveller and ALBERT GREENBERG of 1 Nelson Villas, Norfolk
Crescent, Bath in the County of Somerset, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
Our Invention has for its chief object providing a holder or attachment for infants'
feeding bottles whereby the bottle may be securely attached to the dress of the child,
nurse or mother, to the bed clothes, perambulator, or any convenient article, in order
to obviate all risk of its contents being spilled, or the bottle broken, and which shall
at the same time admit of the contents being drawn off with as much facility as if
the bottle were free.
According to one mode of carrying out our Invention in order to effect this object,
the holder or attachment consists of a skeleton frame, cup or pocket of metal, alloy,
wood, bone, ivory, wicker, leather or other suitable material, made of a convenient
shape to receive the lower part or body of the bottle and provided with a chain or
chains or the like, carrying a safety pin or its equivalent for attachment to the dress
or other article; or in lieu of the chain or chains, a rigid connection of wire or the
like working on a hinge or joint or otherwise may be employed between the frame,
cup or pocket and the safety pin or its equivalent. Or the holder or attachment
may consist of a clip partially encircling the body or neck of the bottle, or of a ring,
band or collar encircling the neck of the bottle and provided with the chain or chains
or the like, or the rigid connection, carrying the safety pin or its equivalent. The
holder or attachment is by preference so constructed as to be readily removable from
the bottle at will, or it may be fixed to the bottle if desired.
By means of our Invention, the desideratum of a means of attaching the feeding
bottle to the child is supplied in a simple and efficient manner, at a small cost, thus
bringing it within the reach of all classes of the community.
1000
THOS. J. HANDFORD,
50, Bedford Row, London, W.C., Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Appliance for or Adjunct to Feeding Bottles.
We, ALFRED GREENBERG, of No. 16, Fellows Road, South Hampstead, in the
County of Middlesex, Commercial Traveller, and ALBERT GREENBERG of No. 1,
Nelson Villas, Norfolk Crescent, Bath in the County of Somerset, also a Commercial
Traveller, 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 :-
Our invention relates to improvements in appliances adapted in virtue of their
special construction to facilitate the fixation of the bottle in, the best position for the
fulfilment of its specific purpose.
In order that our invention, and the best means by which the same is to be carried
into practical effect, may be thoroughly understood, we will now describe them in
detail, referring in so doing to the accompanying drawings, which are to be taken as
part of this specification and read therewith.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a feeding bottle to which our invention has been
applied.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view illustrative of our invention.
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view of a preferable form of ring shewing it open.

page_text: We are fully aware that certain improvements in ring-devices for holding feeding
bottles have been already invented, and it must be distinctly borne in mind that
this, our specification of our invention, is intended to be construed accordingly, that
is to say in a sense strictly limiting it to our invention.
The
Referring to the aforesaid figures, A is the well known stopper; and B, the
bottle-neck. This is the part of the feeding bottle to which our invention relates.
C is our improved attachment, consisting of a metal ring of any convenient width,
split transversely, and provided with a pair of tabs c, c', and a tightening screw.
chain-and-pin device for fixing the bottle in position are attached to the ring. We
prefer that the ring should be a metal band, and that it should have both top and
bottom edges turned inwards so as to the better adapt it to grip a ring cast upon the
bottle-neck. We attach considerable importance to the material of which the ring is
made, and prefer metal; because it is non-corrosive and strong. The ring must be
split so that it can be opened for the purpose of removing it from the bottle-neck, and
be provided with a screw fixation device by means of which the ring can be fixed on
the neck of any sized bottle. We do not limit ourselves altogether to the use of metal
for this part of the invention, but may use such a material as vulcanite or ebonite ;
but we purposely discard all softer and more elastic materials.
The screw is provided with a milled head c². It works in a female thread in the
tab c; its opposite end or nose being connected to the tab e in such a way that it can
be rotated therein, but not without either pushing or pulling the said tabs, away
from, or towards each other; thereby opening or closing the ring accordingly.
It is clear therefore that our improved adjustable metal ring and screw fixation
device provides a ready and efficient means for securely holding a full bottle of any
size by its neck, and in proper position; and at the same time the ring and fixation
device can be kept perfectly sweet and clean.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, .we declare that what we
claim is :―
1. The combination of split detachable ring and feeding bottle, as and for the
purpose set forth.
2. The combination of fixation-device, detachable ring, and feeding bottle, as set
forth.
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3000
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
No. 22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.