Vented container for use with a bottle assembly and bottle assembly having a vented container
AssigneeDr. Brown's Company
InventorsScott Rhodes, Xiangwen Zhang, Mark D. Reed
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Abstract
A container for a bottle assembly defines a liquid chamber and includes an exterior surface, an interior surface, a closed bottom, an open top, a side wall extending from the closed bottom, and at least one vent for allowing air to enter the liquid chamber upon vacuum pressure within the liquid chamber reaching a predetermined threshold.
Claims20
A container for a bottle assembly, the container defining a liquid chamber and comprising an exterior surface, an interior surface, a closed bottom, an open top, a side wall extending from the closed bottom, and at least one vent for allowing air to enter the liquid chamber upon vacuum pressure within the liquid chamber reaching a predetermined threshold.
A nursing bottle assembly comprising:
- a container defining a liquid chamber and comprising an exterior surface, an interior surface, a closed bottom, an open top, a side wall extending from the closed bottom, and at least one vent for allowing air to enter the liquid chamber upon vacuum pressure within the liquid chamber reaching a predetermined threshold,
- a sleeve for overlying and supporting the container;
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- a collar assembly adapted for selective attachment to the sleeve for closing the nursing bottle assembly.
A container for a bottle assembly, the container defining a liquid chamber and comprising an exterior surface, an interior surface, a closed bottom, an open top, a side wall extending from the closed bottom, and at least one vent for allowing air to enter the liquid chamber upon vacuum pressure within the liquid chamber reaching a predetermined threshold, the predetermined threshold being between 2 millimeters of mercury vacuum pressure and 30 millimeters of mercury vacuum pressure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.