Specification of Edward O'Connell : feeding bottles.

  • O'Connell, Edward
Date:
1860
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Credit: Specification of Edward O'Connell : feeding bottles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    O'Connell's Impts. in Apparatus for Supplying Nourishment to Infants, SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Edward O’Connell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th April 1860. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PEESENTS SHALL COME, I, Edward 5 O'Connell, of Bury, in the County of Lancaster, Surveyor and Draughtsman, send greeting. WHEEEAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of October, jn the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her 10 reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Edward O’Connell, Her special licence that I, the said Edward O’Connell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward O’Connell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all 15 times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Im¬ provements IN Apparatus for Supplying Liouid Nourishment to Infants, Invalids, and Others, and for Warming or Heating the same,” upon the 20 condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward O’Connell, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the 25 date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward O’Connell, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to say):— My Inventions relates to improvements on a Patent granted to me dated the Twenty-fifth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, No. 987, in the Specification of which I describe a vessel with a neck or contraction at the top, to the inside of which I fit a stopper made of cork, glass, or other suitable substance, into which I insert a tube extending nearly to the bottom of the vessel, acting as a syphon, through which the liquid is drawn to the mouth by suction. To the outside of the said vessel I fix an artificial teat with a disc or shield to prevent the teat being drawn too far into the mouth, and to render it more useful I fix a flexible tube of any required length between the vessel and the shield, &c., &c.
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