Baby nursing bottle with temperature indicator

• US 4,878,588 A
• Filed: 06/07/1988
• Issued: 11/07/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jacob Ephraim
• Original Assignee: Jacob Ephraim
• Inventors: Ephraim, Jacob
• Primary Examiner(s): Weaver, Sue A.
• Application Number:
  US07/203,693
• Time in Patent Office: 518 Days
• Field of Search: 215/11.1-11.6, 215/365, 215/366, 215/367, 374/147, 374/150, 374/151, 374/157, 374/162, D24/47, 128/359, 128/360, 264/512, 264/513, 264/523
• US Class Current: 215/11.2
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 9/02 with thermometers

Abstract

A baby feeding bottle having a side wall with a sealed elongated chamber formed therein. The elongated chamber has a commercially available liquid crystal-type strip thermometer disposed therein having temperature indications in a selected temperature range around 37° C.

Claims

1. A baby feeding bottle, comprising:

an elongated, hollow vessel constituted by an integral side wall and an end wall and being open at the other end, said side wall having a smooth, curved section thereon with a varying gradient, said smooth curved section including an elongated, smooth, inwardly recessed portion with a similarly varying gradient thereon and a clear cover ultrasonically bonded to the periphery of said recessed portion, said clear cover having a similarly varying gradient for covering said recessed portion in a flush manner with respect to said side wall, an elongated closed space being formed between said recessed portion and said cover; and

a liquid crystal-type strip thermometer disposed within said elongated space, said strip thermometer having temperature indications in a selected temperature range around 37°

C.

2. The baby feeding bottle of claim 1 wherein said temperature indications are by color and numeral designations.

3. The baby feeding bottle of claim 1 wherein said temperature indications are by color designations.

4. The baby feeding bottle of claim 1 wherein said temperature indications are by numeral designations.

5. The baby feeding bottle of claim 1 wherein said selected temperature range is between 33°

C. and 41°

C.

6. The baby feeding bottle of claim 1 wherein said hollow vessel is formed of injection molded plastic.

7. The baby feeding bottle of claim 1 wherein said hollow vessel is formed of blow-molded plastic.