Specification of Noah Fellows : feeding bottles.

  • Fellows, Noah.
Date:
1874
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Noah Fellows : feeding bottles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fellows' Improvements in Feeding Bottles. Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in Feeding Bottles,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Noah Fellows, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe 5 and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Noah Fellows, do hereby declare 10 the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say :— By the present arrangement of infants’ feeding bottles the cleansing of the flexible tube is difficult and imperfect, owing to the difficulty of 15 access, whereby the milk remains in the interior of the tube and becomes sour, contaminating the whole, and thereby engendering sickness and complaints. The object of my Invention is to obviate these defects in an easy, complete, and expeditious manner. To carry out my Invention I employ two tubes of equal length of 20 india-rubber, gutta percha, or other flexible material, one within the other. The inner tube is slit or cut longitudinally, the slit extending nearly to both its extremities. The inner tube fits in the outer tube so as to be easily removeable therefrom, but sufficiently tight to keep the slit or cut closed by the pressure of the outer tube. The upper ends of the inner and outer tubes are fitted to the mouth¬ piece or teat by means of a union, and the lower ends are passed over and thus fitted to the upper end of the usual glass tube in the bottle. The inner tube may also be made of a strip or sheet of india-rubber, gutta percha, or other flexible material rolled into the required form. 30 It is obvious that when required to cleanse the inner tube the same may be withdrawn and spread open flat so as to expose its inner surface, and allow it to be washed thoroughly clean, and then replaced. After being cleaned its elasticity will cause it to take its original form. Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the 35 manner of carrying the same into effect, what I claim is, the employ¬ ment of two tubes of elastic and flexible material placed one within the