Nursing bottle support

• US 4,733,837 A
• Filed: 06/23/1986
• Issued: 03/29/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Everardo M. Aguirre
• Original Assignee: Everardo M. Aguirre
• Inventors: Aguirre, Everardo M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Foss, J. Franklin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Olson, Robert A.
• Application Number:
  US06/877,429
• Time in Patent Office: 645 Days
• Field of Search: 248/58, 248/59, 248/102, 248/105, 248/106, 248/107, 248/121, 248/122, 248/125, 248/153, 248/163.1, 248/163.2, 248/339, 248/164, 248/431
• US Class Current: 248/106
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 9/0638 for supporting in a feeding position
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 9/0684 having a self-supporting base

Abstract

A nursing bottle support, having an articulated tripod from which hang three screws and a wire framework wherein the nursing bottle is positioned. The framework has three hooks, one for grasping the neck of the nursing bottle and the other two for supporting the body. The object is to sustain the nursing bottle in position to enable the baby to ingest the liquid food contained therein.

Claims

1. A nursing bottle support, comprising:

an articulated tripod having three legs;

first screw means for adjusting said one leg relative to said other two legs;

a framework hanging under said tripod and arranged for supporting a nursing bottle for feeding a baby, one of said legs of said tripod being adjustable relative to the other two legs in a horizontal direction by turning about a substantially vertical axis so that said legs of said tripod are adjustably movable away from the skin of the baby to be fed with the nursing bottle and so that the framework is still able to support the nursing bottle for feeding the baby without moving downwardly towards the baby; and

second screws means for adjusting a distance between said framework and said tripod, said framework including at least two J-shaped vertically parallel hooks, each hook having a hooked end and a top stem end with a ring-shaped portion being disposed horizontally from said top stem end, said ring-shaped portion being sized to cooperate with said second screw means for supporting said framework, one of said hooks being arranged for grasping a neck of the nursing bottle and another of said hooks being arranged for receiving a body of the nursing bottle.

2. A nursing bottle support as defined in claim 1, wherein said framework is formed as a wire framework.

3. A nursing bottle support as defined in claim 1, wherein said second screw means includes a plurality of screw fasteners.

4. A nursing bottle support as defiend in claim 3, wherein each screw fastener includes a screw, a nut, and at least one washer situated between said tripod and said framework.

5. A nursing bottle support as defined in claim 3, wherein said plurality of said screw fasteners includes at least three fasteners.

6. A nursing bottle support as defined in claim 1, wherein said tripod includes two parts, one part forming two of said three legs of said tripod and the other part forming said one leg and having a horizontal portion.

7. A nursing bottle support as defined in claim 6, wherein said first screw means includes a first screw, said second screw means including at least two second screws, said horizontal portion having at least three holes, said first screw of said first screw means engaging one of said holes, and each of said second screws of said second screw means engaging a respective one of the rest of said holes.

8. A nursing bottle support as defined in claim 6, wherein said one part is arc-shaped and said other part is angular-shaped.

9. A nursing bottle support as defined in claim 8, wherein said arc-shaped part has two ends forming said two legs of said tripod and said angular-shaped part has a vertical portion forming said one leg of said tripod.

10. A nursing bottle support as defined in claim 9, wherein said first screw means has a first screw, said arc-shaped part having a central area with a central vertical hole, said horizontal portion of said angular-shaped part containing a first hole, said arc-shaped part and said angular-shaped part arranged for articulation together by said first screw which is insertable into said central vertical hole and into said first hole.

11. A nursing bottle support as defined in claim 8, wherein said arc-shaped part has a concavity which is directed downward.

12. A nursing bottle support as defined in claim 8, wherein said angular-shaped part has a right angle vertex.

13. A nursing bottle support as defined in claim 1, wherein said tripod has an angular-shaped member including a horizontal portion and a vertical portion constituting a vertical leg of said tripod, said hooks being spaced horizontally along said horizontal portion, said one hook arranged for grasping a neck of a nursing bottle being spaced furthest away from said vertical portion.

14. A nursing bottle support;

comprising;

an articulated tripod having three legs of which one leg is adjustable relative to the other two legs;

first screw means for adjusting said one leg relative to said other two legs;

a framework hanging under said tripod and arranged for supporting a nursing bottle for feeding a baby, said framework including at least two J-shaped vertically parallel hooks, each hook having a hooked end and a top stem end with a ring-shaped portion being disposed horizontally from said top stem end, said ring-shaped portion being sized to cooperate with said second screw means for supporting said framework, said framework also including a wire secured to each of said hooked ends to align said hooks with each other so that a nursing bottle is simultaneously introducible onto said hooks of said framework; and

second screw means for adjusting said framework relative to said tripod.

15. A nursing bottle support as defined in claim 14, wherein said hooks are secured to said wire equidistantly from each other.

16. A nursing bottle support as defined in claim 14, wherein said wire is arranged to coincide with each hooked end of said hooks.