Infant nursing bottle holder and mobile support
OwnerMorris J. Howard, Evelyn L. Howardinventors
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Abstract
An infant nursing bottle holder includes a substantially U-shaped clamping member, a substantially Y-shaped nursing bottle-retaining member, a strap for securing an infant nursing bottle to the bottle-retaining member, multiple elongate members, interconnected end-to-end and, together, coupling the bottle-retaining member to the U-shaped clamping member, and a rotatable hinge joint at the interconnection of each pair of elongate members, each hinge joint having a geared resilient pivot that permits angular positioning of the joined elongate members at discrete arcuate intervals through a range of at least 180 degrees.
Claims20
An infant nursing bottle holder comprising:
- a substantially U-shaped clamping member;
- a nursing bottle-retaining member;
- means for securing an infant nursing bottle to said bottle-retaining member;
- a plurality of elongate members, interconnected end-to-end and, together, coupling said bottle-retaining member to said U-shaped clamping member;
- a rotatable hinge joint at the interconnection of each pair of elongate members, each hinge joint having
- a resilient first hinge member affixed to one of each pair of interconnected elongate members, said first hinge member having an internally geared aperture with a first set of evenly-spaced teeth;
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- a second hinge member including a pair of parallel, spaced-apart hinge plates affixed to the other of said pair of elongate members, said second hinge member further including an externally geared pivot shaft with a second set of teeth, said pivot shaft positioned within the internally geared aperture with the first and second sets of teeth mutually engaged, each end of said pivot shaft being rigidly and non-rotatably coupled to one of said hinge plates.
An infant nursing bottle holder comprising:
- a substantially U-shaped clamping member;
- a substantially Y-shaped nursing bottle-retaining member;
- means for securing an infant nursing bottle to said bottle-retaining member;
- a plurality of elongate members, interconnected end-to-end and, together, coupling said bottle-retaining member to said U-shaped clamping member;
- a rotatable hinge joint at the interconnection of each pair of elongate members, each hinge joint having a geared pivot with at least one deformable resilient hinge member that permits angular positioning of the joined elongate members at discrete arcuate intervals through a range of at least 180 degrees.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.