Teat for an infant feeding bottle

A pacifier and feeding bottle technology, applied in the field of pacifiers, can solve the problems of deformation of the pacifier, pressure difference between the outside and the inside of the pacifier, and frustrating the baby's breastfeeding, and achieve the effect of preventing metastable depression

Active Publication Date: 2014-12-10
KONINKLJIJKE PHILIPS NV
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During feeding, the expulsion of food from the bottle may cause an outer-inner pressure difference across the elastic wall of the teat, due to which the teat may deform
This deformation of the nipple can frustrate a baby's breastfeeding

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[0021] figure 1 A schematic side view of an exemplary baby bottle 1 is depicted. The feeding bottle 1 may have a three-part design and include a body 60 , a threaded ring 50 and an elastic teat 10 . The substantially hollow bottle body 60 configured to hold liquid baby food may include an upper portion provided with external threads (in figure 1 (not visible), the external thread can be engaged by the internal thread provided on the inner wall of the passage through the threaded ring 50 , so that the threaded ring 50 is threadably attached to the upper part of the bottle body 60 . The internal passage of the threaded ring 50 may further define an upper constricted opening having a circumferential rim or edge configured to sealingly engage the lower portion or skirt 22 of the teat 10 (see Figure 2B ). If the teat 10, which will be described in more detail below, is properly inserted into the threaded ring 50, and the threaded ring 50 is in turn threadedly attached to the ...

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Abstract

A teat (10) for an infant feeding bottle (1), including a resilient wall (12) defining a central nipple (14a) and an areola (14b) that extend around a central axis (L), said teat being elastically transformable between a distended state in which the nipple defines a global maximum (38) and at least one depressed state that is accessible from the distended state by forcing the nipple at least partially into the areola along the central axis, and in which said wall (12) additionally defines an annular double fold (32) that defines an outer local maximum (34) and an inner local minimum (36), both extending circumferentially around the global maximum, wherein the wall defines a circumferential fold region (30) that, in said at least one depressed state, ranges from the local maximum to the local minimum of the double fold, and wherein said fold region has a rotationally asymmetric stiffness distribution.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a teat for a baby bottle and to a baby bottle provided with the teat. Background technique [0002] An infant feeding bottle may generally include a body containing milk or liquid infant formula, and a nipple attached to the body so that the contents of the bottle may be fed to the infant through it. During feeding, the expulsion of food from the bottle may cause an outer-inner pressure difference across the elastic wall of the teat, due to which the teat may deform. This deformation of the nipple may frustrate the baby's nursing. Contents of the invention [0003] Acceptance of artificial teats by babies can be improved by giving them a shape and feel similar to that of a natural mother's breast. To this end, the teat wall, and in particular its wall portion delimiting the areola surrounding the teat, can be made particularly flexible and thus soft to the touch, as described for example in DE 20 2011 052 329-U1. A disadva...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): A61J11/00A61J9/00
CPCA61J11/006A61J9/00A61J11/0065A61J11/0035A61J11/02
Inventor J·帕尔默B-J·泽瓦特C·J·哈夫J·布林克特
Owner KONINKLJIJKE PHILIPS NV
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