Patent ID: 7959021

Claim:
An air inlet for a baby bottle comprising a container, a teat and a collar, and the air inlet having a valve adapted to mount in the baby bottle between the container and the teat and having a body adapted to mount in an opening formed in a neck of the container so as to abut a bottom of the teat, the body having an annular surface; an outer end; an inner end; a single chamber formed in the outer end of the body; multiple separating blocks formed on and protruding from the annular surface of the body at spaced-apart intervals, and each separating block having a vent formed through the separating block, through the outer end of the body and separated from the chamber by the annular surface of the body; and multiple liquid channels formed radially through the annular surface of the body between the separating blocks and communicating with the chamber; an outer ring formed on and protruding from the outer end of the valve, around the chamber and separating the chamber and the vents; and an inner ring formed on and protruding from the inner end of the body below the separating blocks, and being formed with the outer ring as a single piece and having an internal surface; and multiple air inlets formed through the internal surface of the lower ring near the inner end of the body and communicating with the vents of the separating blocks; and a hollow air-inlet tube mounted detachably on the inner end of the body and having a mounting end corresponding to and being mounted around the inner ring of the valve, abutting the separating blocks and communicating with the air inlets and the vents; and a nozzle end formed on and protruding from the mounting end, and being tapered and adapted for communicating with the container of the baby bottle.