IMPROVEMENTS IN FEEDING BOTTLES AND VESSELS, FOR CHILDREN INVALIDS AND OTHERS
Year: 1885

page_text: I SIDNEY JOB Pocock, of 8 South Lambeth Road, Vauxhall, in the county.
of Surrey, Milk Contractors do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN FEEDING BOTTLES AND VESSELS, FOR CHILDREN INVALIDS AND
OTHERS, to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to enable a person to give food to children
invalids or others at any desired temperature.
For this purpose I make an indentation on the exterior of one side of a Feeding
Bottle, or invalids cup, or drinking vessel.
In the indentation I place a thermometer which is fixed on the indentation in-
the process of glass-blowing or other manufacture of the vessel.
The thermometer is marked in degrees, and the bulb portion of it being in the
indentation of the vessel permits the liquid in the vessel to have sufficient, access to
the thermometer for the latter to register its temperature.
In cases where the Feeding Bottle or drinking vessel is being prepared by a-
child or person of small experience I have marked the thermometer in such a way
that the mercury of the thermometer (if it is a mercurial thermometer) can be
permitted to reach the mark, and thus obviate the necessity of the person so
preparing it having any knowledge of a thermometer.

page_text: I SIDNEY JOB Pocock of 8 South Lambeth Road Vauxhall, in the county of
Surrey, Milk Contractor do hereby declare the nature of this invention for AN
IMPROVEMENT IN FEEDING BOTTLES AND VESSELS FOR CHILDREN INVALIDS AND
OTHERS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of my Invention is to enable. a person to give food to children
invalids or others at any desired temperature.
In the accompanying drawings I shew a few cases of its application.
In Figure 1. I show a bottle in the front or side of which I make an indentation,
and in this indentation I place and fix a thermometer so constructed that the
mercurial bulb of it can pass watertight through the front or side of the bottle.
The thermometer is marked in degrees and the bulb portion of it being in
contact with the contents of the vessel: the thermometer is capable of shewing the
temperature of the contents of the Feeding Bottle.
In Figs. 2 and 3. I obtain the same results by fixing a thermometer in an
indentation of the bottle or drinking vessel in such a way that although the bulb
portion is still exterior to the liquid the latter by partly surrounding the bulb can
still have sufficient access to it for the thermometer to register its temperature.
It is evident that these illustrations are only representative of many vessels to
which my said Invention could be applied.
In cases where the Feeding Bottle or other vessel is being prepared by a child
or person of small experience and where some specific temperature is desired I mark
the thermometer on its exterior or upon the side of the Feeding Bottle cup or
vessel, that it can readily be seen when the mercury of the thermometer (if it is
a mercurial thermometer or other the liquid used in the thermometer) has reached
the required temperature thus obviating the necessity of the person so preparing it
having any knowledge of a thermometer.
Fig. 1. shews its application to a Feeding Bottle when the bulb of the
thermometer passes into the liquid.
Fig. 2. shews its application to a Feeding Bottle when the bulb of the
thermometer is exterior to the liquid.
Fig. 3. shews its application to a drinking vessel.
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
The adaptation of a thermometer to a Feeding Bottle or drinking vessel, or other
vessels, for the purpose of registering the temperature of its contents in the way
and manner hereinbefore described.