AN IMPROVED FEEDING BOTTLE
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Primerosc Howard Vaughan, F.C.S., of
67, Chancery Lanc, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent,
for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED FEEDING BOTTLE."--A communi-
cation from abroad by Jules Brière, residing at Paris, in the
Republic of France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Primerose
Howard Vaughan at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with his Petition, on the 18th March 1875.
I, EDWARD PRimerose Howard Vaughan, F.C.S., of 67, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED FEEDING BOTTLE,"
being a communication to me from abroad by Jules Brière, residing at
Paris, in the Republic of France to be no

page_text: tubes of which are so arranged as to facilitate suction, while preventing
accidental escape of the liquid or the accumulation of solid deposits
under the stopper.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing is a vertical section of this
bottle; Figure 2 is a side view of the same; Figures 3, 4, are top and
bottom views of the stopper.
A is a wooden tube, the bore of which is widened at the lower end,
where it is provided with a valve B of gut or other suitable material;
C is an air passage formed in this valve; D is a hole pierced through
the cork, in one end of which is set the valve socket A, while the other
forms an air chamber, communicating by D' with the free space round
the suction tube E, which passes through a hole E¹ of somewhat larger
diameter drilled through the cap F.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan in the Great 1
Scal Patent Office on the 17th September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
PRIMEROSE HOWARD VAUGHAN, F.C.S., of 67, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agont, sond greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
cighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan, Her
special licence that I, the said Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan, my 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,

page_text: of heat and becoming unserviceable, in which case too great a supply of
air causes the choking of the child and loss of the milk; and even
assuming that this does not occur solid matter always accumulates under
the stopper between the valve and the suction tubes, necessitating
frequent cleansings, without which the milk turns or sours. These
defects are obviated by the modifications and improvements hercin-after
described.
This improved feeding bottle is suitably arranged for the various
positions it must occupy, to contain a sufficient quantity of liquid for
the child, and is of a pleasing form.
The suction tube, composed of glass, india-rubber, wooden tip, and
nipple with washer, is similar to that of other feeding bottics, and fitted
almost in the same manner, with the exception of some slight but well
considered and practical modifications, as may be seen on the accom-
panying Drawing, the principal modification being in the tighter fitting
of the india-rubber tube in the cork.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawing Figure 1 is a vertical section
of a feeding bottle embodying this Invention; Figure 2 is a side view of
the same; and Figures 3 and 4 are top and bottom views of the stopper.
A indicates a wooden tube turned with grooves for fixing the cover,
forming valve, and for securing it in the stopper; this piece of wood is
pierced in its entire length with a hole, the orifice of which on the side
toward its head is of larger diameter in order that the aforesaid cover
may be more vibrating; B, covering of gut, bladder, skin, or other
suitable material forming valve; C, small hole in B for passage of air;
D, hole pierced in the cork, receiving at one end the turned piece of
wood of the valve, and its other end forming air chamber communicating
by rebound at D₁ with the inlet preserved around the suction tube E;
E¹, hole in the cap F of larger diameter than the india-rubber suction
tube E, this difference of diameter permitting an easy communication of
the outer air with the chamber D.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of the Invention,
communicated to me as aforesaid, I desire it to be understood that I do
not limit myself to the use of any particular material nor to any par-
ticular form or dimensions in the manufacture of this improved feeding

page_text: bottle, and that I claim as of this Invention, the combination in a feeding
bottle of the tube A and valve B with the air chamber D, D¹, and
hole E¹, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of Sep-
tember, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five.
E. P. H. VAUGHAN. (L.S.)