IMPROVEMENTS IN UNIONS FOR ATTACHING TEATS ΤΟ FEEDING BOTTLES
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Aug., 1887
Complete Left, 25th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 29th Mar., 1888
We, EDWIN WOODHAM, of 169 Hanbury Street, Mile End, in the County of
Middlesex, Glass Bottle Manufacturer, and PIERCE OCKENDEN, of 119 London Wall,
in the City of London, Mercantile Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN UNIONS FOR ATTACHING TEATS ΤΟ FEEDING
BOTTLES to be as follows:-
The fittings attached to babies feeding bottles are usually a source of trouble on
account of the difficulty of keeping them clean, and a considerable part of this
difficulty is in most cases due to the union by which the flexible tube from the bottle
is attached to the teat, the diameter of the union being generally too small to admit
of its being easily and thoroughly cleaned.
According to our invention we make the union Cup-shaped or funnel-shaped with
an opening through the bottom preferably of sufficient size to admit of its being
cleaned with the ordinary brush, round this opening on the outside of it is a rim over
which the tube from the bottic is stretched and by which it is retained. At the upper
or large end of the cup or funnel shaped union is another rim over which the teat
is stretched and drawn.
We make use of a teat much larger at its base or rim than is usual, so as to admit
of its being stretched over the rim of the before described union.
Unions thus constructed require no shield because the union itself is of sufficient
size to prevent its being taken into a childs mouth and the part of the rubber teat
stretched at its junction with the union forms a smooth soft surface to come in
contact with the childs lips.
Dated this 10th day of Avausi 1887
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in Unions for Attaching Teats to Feeding Bottles.
We EDWIN WOODHAM, of 169 Hanbury Street, Mile End, in the County of
Middlesex, Glass-bottle manufacturer and PIERCE OCKENDEN, of 119, London Wall,
in the City of London, Mercantile Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of the said
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN UNIONS FOR
BOTTLES and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
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ATTACHING TEATS TO
FEEDING
The fittings attached to babies feeding-bottles are usually a source of trouble on
account of the difficulty of keeping them clean and a considerable part of this
difficulty is in most cases due to the union by which the flexible tube from the bottle
is attached to the teat, the internal diameter of the union being generally too small
to admit of its being easily and thoroughly cleaned.
According to our invention we make the union externally of cup or funnel shape
as shown in the annexed drawings Figs. 1, 2 and 3 in which Fig. 1, represents our
improved union with a tube and a teat attached, Figs. 2 and 3 represent sections of
two slightly differing varieties of form. Fig. 4 represents a teat disconnected.
The part marked A is the body of the Union through which is a longitudinal
opening of sufficient diameter to admit of its being easily cleaned, and it may be
either cylindrical as shown in Fig. 2, or larger towards the larger end of the union
as shown in Fig. 3. At the small end of the union is a rim marked b over which the
tube cis drawn and by which it is retained.
At the large end of the union is another rim & over which the teat E is stretched
and drawn and we prefer to make the end more or less concave or hollow as shown
in Figs. 2 and 3, so that the stretched fabric of the teat may not be in contact with
the union except at the rim, in order that it may present a soft and yielding surface.
We make use of a teat much larger at its base than is usual as shown in Fig. 4,
which represents one in its unstretched condition.
Teats and unions of the form above described require no shield because the union
is of sufficient size to prevent its being taken into a child's mouth and the part of the
rubber teat stretched at its junction with the union forms a smooth and very soft and
flesh like surface to come in contact with the child's lips.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is.
1 Constructing unions for connecting the teats with the tubes of feeding bottles,
with the end to which the teat is attached of considerable size so that a shield is not
required, substantially in and for the purposes herein before described.
2 Constructing unions for feeding-bottles the exterior of which is either conical or
cup-shaped or nearly so, with a rim at each end with which to connect the tube and
the teat respectively substantially as and for the purposes described and set forth.
Dated the 25th day of February 1888.
Agent for the Applicants.