Breast-Cups
date: label: date made
content: 1875
label: patent date
content: 1875-08-17
notes: label: Description
content: Taylor E. Daniels, of Detroit, Michigan, designed a "device to be worn upon the person under the clothing for the purpose of receiving and retaining the fluid involuntarily discharged from the breast” and submitted this model with his patent application.
label: Description
content: The device consisted of a flattened nipple cap with a small tube (shown in record MG.M-04340.01) connected to a longer flexible tube leading to a receptacle which could be carried in the pocket or other suitable place. This model shows the second part of the patent described as "a soft pad or shield recessed to receive and retain the [nipple] cap." The pads are rendered in wood for the purpose of the patent model, but Daniels recommended making them of soft rubber. The nipple caps could be used alone or with the pads, and the pads could also be used alone "simply for expanding the bust."
label: Description
content: Ref: Taylor E. Daniels, “Improvement in Breast-Pads for Females,” U.S. Patent 166,686 (August 17, 1875) (filed July7, 1875).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04340.02
label: catalog number
content: M-04340.02
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: US166686A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shields, Nipple
label: Object Name
content: patent model, nipple shields
label: Object Name
content: nipple shields
label: Object Name
content: patent model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (shields(2) material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 3 7/8 in; 3.175 cm x 9.8425 cm