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US 5,688,238 AGranted
Multi-use infant-feeding nipple system
AssigneeEZ Drink Baby Products, L.C.
InventorsRamon Moser, Gustavo Moser, Antonio Valery, Campo Maya, John Maya
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AssigneeEZ Drink Baby Products, L.C.
InventorsRamon Moser, Gustavo Moser, Antonio Valery, Campo Maya, John Maya
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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.
A nipple adapted to be connected with a source of liquid for feeding infants, comprising:
An infant-feeding nipple system, comprising:
A nipple for feeding infants, comprising:
A rigid ring insert adapted to be placed in a diametrically enlarged annular flange on an infant-feeding nipple to rigidify the flange, said insert comprising a rigid, annular, washer-like ring having annular top and bottom surfaces and inner and outer marginal edges, and protrusion means on said ring, extending above and below the top and bottom surfaces, respectively, and radially beyond at least one of said inner and outer marginal edges such that said protrusions are adapted to engage inner mold surfaces of a mold cavity in which the flange of an infant-feeding nipple is manufactured to center said insert in said mold cavity whereby the insert will be centered in the flange of a nipple molded in said cavity.
A flexible nipple for feeding infants, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.