Baby bottle with integral fluid delivery measurement system

• US 6,446,821 B1
• Filed: 04/14/1999
• Issued: 09/10/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mason W. Salisbury
• Original Assignee: Mason W. Salisbury
• Inventors: Salisbury, Mason W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Young, Lee
• Assistant Examiner(s): Merek, Joseph C.
• Application Number:
  US09/291,362
• Time in Patent Office: 1,245 Days
• Field of Search: 215/11.1, 333/65, 333/79, D 7/305, D 7/507, D 9/436, D 9/516
• US Class Current: 215/11.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 2200/76 for fluid level
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 9/00 Feeding-bottles in general

Abstract

In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a baby bottle having gradations that allow for accurate measure of the fluid contained and/or dispensed from the bottle, wherein the gradations read true when held in a predetermined feeding angle. Invention bottles further comprise a leveling apparatus for determining when the bottle is being held at the angle whereby the gradations show the true volume.

Claims

1. An open ended nursing bottle, said nursing bottle comprising:

(a) a plurality of visible gradations along its length,

(b) a means for identifying an orientation of said nursing bottle wherein said orientation places a liquid contained in said bottle in an aspect for measuring said liquid using said gradations when the nursing bottle is positioned for nursing, and

(c) a receiving means for snugly accepting a dispensing means,

wherein said means for identifying an orientation of said nursing bottle comprises a bubble level.

2. A nursing bottle according to claim 1, wherein one or more numerical values associated with each of said gradations increases and/or decreases as the distance of said gradation from said open end increases.

3. A nursing bottle according to claim 1, wherein said dispensing means comprises a nipple.

4. A nursing bottle according to claim 1, wherein said means for snugly accepting said dispensing means comprises an annular lip at said open end.

5. A nursing bottle according to claim 1, wherein said means for snugly accepting said dispensing means comprises screw threads around said open end.

6. A nursing bottle according to claim 1, wherein said bottle incorporates a bend.

7. A nursing bottle according to claim 6, wherein said bend is in the range of up to about 90 degrees.

8. A nursing bottle according to claim 6, wherein said bend is in the range of about 10 degrees up to about 60 degrees.

9. A nursing bottle according to claim 6, wherein said bend is about 45 degrees.