Medicine dispensing baby bottle
OwnerLynne M. Bottsinventor
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Abstract
A medicine dispensing apparatus outwardly resembles a traditional nursing bottle assembly. The bottle has an internal but open ended receptacle to hold medicine, and the nipple has an integral tube to connect the receptacle to a nipple outlet hole to dispense the medicine. Simultaneous dispensing of the medicine along with the liquid inside the bottle is obtained. A syringe fits inside the receptacle and allows regulated dispensing of medicine.
Claims12
A liquid and medicine dispensing apparatus for infants comprising:
- a bottle having an open end,
- a nipple mounted on the open end of said bottle, said nipple having at least two discharge holes,
- a medicine tube disposed within said nipple and connected to one of said holes,
- a medicine receptacle disposed within said bottle and removably connected to said tube for dispensing medicine through said one hole,
- said receptacle being smaller than the inside dimension of said bottle to define a liquid reservoir in said bottle for receiving a liquid,
- said other discharge hole operably communicating with said liquid reservoir;
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- said nipple permitting said liquid and medicine to be dispensed into an infant's mouth simultaneously.
A liquid and medicine dispenser for infants comprising:
- a bottle having a bottom end and an open top end;
- a medicine syringe including a barrel member and a plunger;
- a syringe receptacle disposed within said bottle and having bottom and top ends, said receptacle extending inside said bottle from the bottom of the bottle towards the open bottle top, the bottom end of said receptacle defining a port in the bottle bottom and said bottle bottom being otherwise closed while leaving the receptacle bottom end open at said port to receive said medicine syringe within said receptacle,
- a nipple having at least two discharge holes,
- a medicine tube integrally formed within said nipple and integrally connected at one end to one of said holes, said tube formed at another end to receive the top end of said receptacle for dispensing medicine from said syringe through said one hole,
- said receptacle being smaller than the inside dimension of said bottle such that a liquid reservoir is formed within said bottle outside said receptacle,
- said other discharge hole operably communicating with said liquid reservoir;
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- securing means for securing said nipple to the open end of the bottle,
- whereby when the nipple is secured to the bottle, the medicine tube operably connects with the receptacle, and medicine can be dispensed from said syringe through one of said discharge holes in said nipple simultaneously with dispensing of said liquid through another of said discharge holes from said reservoir into the infant's mouth.
A medicine dispenser for simultaneously dispensing medicine and a separate liquid to infants, and comprising:
- a bottle,
- a receptacle within the bottle;
- an opening in the bottom of the bottle into the receptacle;
- a medicine syringe disposed in said receptacle,
- said receptacle having a forward end;
- a nipple for operable connection to said bottle and having at least two discharge openings, a first opening for passing medicine from said receptacle to an infant and a second opening communicating with the interior of said bottle outside said receptacle for passing liquid therein to an infant separately from but simultaneously with said medicine;
- a tube integral with said nipple communicating with said first opening and extending rearwardly to the forward end of said receptacle;
- said tube operably connected to said receptacle;
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- said syringe having a forward end sealed to said receptacle such that medicine expressed from said syringe enters said tube and is dispensed to an infant through said first discharge opening independently from said liquid but simultaneously therewith.
A dispenser for dispensing medicine and a liquid simultaneously through a nipple means to an infant, said dispenser comprising:
- a bottle having an outer wall a closed bottom and an open top end for receiving a nipple means;
- an inner medicine receptacle extending inside the bottle outer wall from said closed bottom toward said open top end;
- a syringe;
- a port in the bottle bottom defining an opening in the receptacle for introducing said syringe into the receptacle;
- said receptacle being disposed within said bottle;
- a liquid reservoir defined within said bottle outside said receptacle;
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- one end of said receptacle having means for operably connecting said receptacle with a nipple means to dispense the medicine from the syringe to an infant free of any liquid within said reservoir prior to discharge;
- whereby when the bottle is connected with nipple means, medicine and a liquid can be dispensed to an infant simultaneously through the nipple means.
In combination, a baby bottle, medicine dispenser and nipple for use in dispensing medicine and a liquid simultaneously into an infant's mouth, and comprising:
- a bottle having an opening;
- a nipple adapted to be connected to said opening;
- at least two discharge holes in said nipple;
- a medicine dispenser within said bottle;
- a medicine tube disposed within said nipple, one end of said tube connected to one of the discharge holes, the other end releasably connected to said medicine dispenser within said bottle;
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- said other discharge hole in said nipple operably communicating with an interior of said nipple outside said tube and said dispenser;
- whereby separate medicine and liquid can be dispensed from said nipple through respective ones of said two discharge holes simultaneously.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.