Baby bottle with an air valve device
AssigneeHeinz Baby Corporation
InventorShen-Kwang Hsu
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Abstract
A baby bottle with an air valve device has a bottle, an air valve device and a cap. The bottle has a mouth. The air valve device is a check valve and has a valve seat mounted on the mouth of the bottle and having at least one through hole, a valve stem and a valve disk. The valve seat has at least one through hole. The valve stem is mounted slidably through the valve seat and has a bottom end. The valve disk is attached to the bottom end of the valve stem and has an air chamber and an annular disk. The air chamber is hollow and has a proximal end attached to the bottom end of the valve stem. The annular disk is formed around and protrudes out from the proximal end of the air chamber and selectively closes the through hole in the valve seat.
Claims5
A baby bottle comprising
- a bottle for holding a liquid and having
- a top;
- and
- a mouth formed on the top of the bottle;
- an air valve device mounted in the mouth of the bottle and comprising
- a valve seat mounted on the mouth of the bottle and having
- a center;
- a stem hole formed through the center of the valve seat;
- and
- at least one through hole formed through the valve seat around the stem hole;
- a valve stem mounted slidably in the stem hole and having
- a top end;
- a bottom end having an annular slot;
- and
- a head being larger than the stem hole, formed on the top end of the valve stem for keeping the valve stem from going into the bottle;
- and
- a valve disk being hollow, attached to the bottom end of the valve stem and having
- an air chamber attached to the bottom end of the valve stem and having
- a proximal end;
- a distal end;
- and
- a mounting hole formed through the proximal end of the air chamber and mounted in the annular slot at the bottom end of the valve stem;
- and
- an annular disk formed around and protruding out from the proximal end of the air chamber to selectively close the at least one through hole in the valve seat;
- and
- a cap attached to the top of the bottle, for closing the mouth and comprising
- a nipple mounted on the valve seat;
- and
- a collar attached to the top of the bottle to hold the nipple and valve seat in place and having a central through hole for allowing the nipple to protrude from the bottle through the collar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.