Multi-use infant-feeding nipple system

Details Multi-use infant-feeding nipple system Multi-use infant-feeding nipple system

1996-03-07

1997-11-18

Buiz, Michael

Surgery

Means for introducing or removing material from body for...

Treating material introduced into or removed from body...

15 111, 15 114, 604 77, 604 79, 606236, 606234, A61J 1100

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056882386

ABSTRACT:
An infant-feeding nipple and an infant-feeding nipple system in which the nipple may be used conventionally on a baby bottle or used in conjunction with an elongate conduit connected between the nipple and a container holding liquid to be drunk by the infant. The nipple has a radially enlarged flange on its base end, with a rigid safety ring insert which prevents the flange from being pulled from beneath the cap holding the nipple to a bottle, and which prevents the nipple from being swallowed by an infant when the nipple is detached from a container. In one form of the invention, the nipple has a flexible transverse wall across its base end, with a central opening therethrough for receiving one end of an elongate conduit whose other end may be extended into a container of liquid to be drunk by the infant. Different diameter conduits may be connected to the nipple. An adaptor is provided for sealably connecting the conduit to an open end of a container when the nipple is to be supported remote from the container. The conduit may have shaped ends to resist withdrawal from a nipple, and to prevent blockage of the inlet end by engagement with the walls of the container. A unique baby bottle is also disclosed, having an angled open end so that the longitudinal axis of a nipple engaged thereon is also angularly disposed relative to the longitudinal axis of the bottle, thereby improving the ergonomics of the bottle.

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