Nipple assembly
AssigneeGerber Products Company
InventorsJohn M. Brown, Donald W. Herritz, Barbara L. Ottinger, Leland D. Westmas
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Abstract
A collar 10 and hood 30 are disclosed for use with a standard baby bottle and nipple. The collar has a beveled flange 14 which recesses the joint between the collar and nipple, making the joint less accessible and less likely to pinch a baby's lips.
Claims1
A nursing bottle collar including a conically shaped internally threaded skirt portion for attachment to a correspondingly threaded bottle and a flange portion surrounding a central aperture, said collar adapted for holding a nipple formed with an upper lip-engaging shoulder of a diameter less than the diameter of said collar and a bottle-engaging flange of a diameter intermediate said collar diameter and said upper shoulder diameter;
- the improvement comprising said flange portion being formed with a downwardly and inwardly bevelled top surface and a planar bottom surface, whereby when said nipple is disposed through said central aperture and a nursing bottle is threadably attached to said collar, said bottle-engaging flange is compressed to cause said lip-engaging shoulder to be drawn against said flange portion immediately adjacent the perimeter of said central aperture, thereby forming an obtuse angle to prevent a child's lip from being squeezed between said flange portion and said lip-engaging shoulder.
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