US1735502A

US1735502A - Bottle-handling device

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Publication number: US1735502A
Application number: US247381A
Authority: US
Inventors: Harris Edwin James
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1928-01-17
Filing date: 1928-01-17
Publication date: 1929-11-12
Anticipated expiration: 1946-11-12

Description

Nov.v 12, 1929. E. J. HARRIS BOTTLE HANDLINGDEVICE Filed Jan. 17, 1928 in removing the bottles from Patented Nov. 12, 1929 stares Pars Enwm AMES HARRIS, or KANSAS ongxfnrssounr I BOTTLE-HANDLING DEVICE hpplication filed January 17, 1925. Serial No. 247,381.

hands, and therefore the present invention has as its primary objecttoprovide a simple device Which may be readily adapted to a,

nursing bottle immersed in water and employed for the purpose of lifting the bottle from the water and inverting the same soas to discharge the water contained therein.

f It is desirable, in sterilizing nursing bottles, to agitate thebottle when introduced into the boiling water, so asto insure of a thorough cleansing of the interior of the bottle, but this cannot be accomplished, conveniently, without the employment of some means for engaging and moving the bottle while, submergedin the boiling water, and therefore, the'invention has as a further object to provide a device which may be manipulated so as to effect agitation of the bottle in the boiling water,

at the time it islifted from the ,water,and

" thus effectla discharge of the water from the bottle." V v While the accompanying drawings and the description which is to follow, constitute-a disclosure of the preferred embodiment of the invention, it willbe understoodthat vari- In the accompanying ous changes may be made within the scope of v v 1 bends 4 by whichithey are-joined and on the what is claimed. 1

drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective View of the device embodying the invention applied to' a nursing bottle, which is shown in broken lines. in

the said figure;

, Figure 2 1s a view front elevation of the dev'ice applied; 1

Figure 8 is a applied to a'nursingbottleand' the device, being likewiseadapted, as stated above, to be manipulated so as to eifecta tilting ofthe bottle horizontal sectional view taken substantially on the line 3-3of Figure '2 looking in the direction indicated bythe arrows. i

FFiCJ The device, embodying the inventiomis preferably formed from a single strand of resilient wire which is bent intermediate its ends to provide a neck-encircling loop 1 of approximately semi-circular contour, the portions of the strand at the opposite ends of the 1 loop being extended downwardly I along 1 diverging lines to provide spaced side members which are indicated by the numeral 2, these members being suitably curved or otherwise formed to approximatelyconform' tofthe shoulder of the bottle to be engaged by the device. The side portions of the strand, .at the lower ends of the side members 2, are bent inwardly toward eachother along arcuate lines as at.3 and thence to for'macute. bends 4' providing portions 5 which extend beneath the port ons 3 and rearwardly beyond the bends between the portions 2 and 3, on arcuate lines, to conform substantially to body embracing portions 5, thus provided, terminate in shank portions 6, which extend .the body of the'bottle to be handled. The

in normally diverging relation toeach other,

on straight lines, and to these shank portions are fitted the forward ends of handles-which 1 i are. indicated by the numeral 7 and which handles may beof wood or any other-material found suitable for the purpose and Offiny desired contour, ferrules 8 being preferably secured to the forward ends of the handles so as to reinforce thehandles at these points and prevent any splitting of the handles duetoythe 1 engagement of the ends of the shanksQG 'i therein. 7 f i to Figures 1 and 3" of the drawings itwill beobservedthat the portions 3 and 5 extend on arcuate lines from the V embrace; the opposite sides of a bottleover;

which the device,as a whole, isfitted.

' In order that thebody. gripping or embracing members5 maybeyieldably held against relative separation and thus adapt th'e said 7 members to ,bebroughtintoffirm gripping engagement with the opposite sides of the body of the nursing'bottle to be lifted by the use of the device, when the handles '7 are brought together, a tension spring 9 is provided between the stems 4 and is formed at its ends with eyes 10 which engage the said bends in the manner clearly shown "in the several V figures of the drawings.

In the use of the'device the handles Tare loosely grasped in the han doi tl ie user and the device, in the postion shown in'Figure 1,

' is fitted downwardly over thextopuoi .Lthe bottle to be lifted or otherwise handled until the body embracing portions 5- extend about and embrace'the opposite sides of the nursing bottle and the neck embracing portion "1 embraces the neckof the bottle as show r'in Ifig- "ure 'l, whereupon theusers hand is closed about the handles 7 so asto-draW the memlbers5toward e'ach'other andbrin'g the same into firm clampingengagement with the opp'o'site sides of the body of the nursing bottle. It 'willbe evident'that in this manner 'thede'v'mema'y beconveniently employed for gripping a n'ursingbottle to permitof its beangina-(sanded into a {pan of boiling water whereupon the device may be mai'npulated 1 asto tilt the{brittleto permit the water to fenterand fill theisame andthen in a manner to 'efi'eetsuitable-iagitation ofthe bottle in the water to insure ot' athorough cleansing 'of the in'teri'or dfthe-bott1e,after which the device may be d'iseng'aged fronrthe bottle and the bottle permitted t o remain in the boiling water until thoroughly sterilized. The tie vice maythenbe reengaged with the bottle =the"handles 7"brou gl'1t together so as to causetl-ie 'body embracing -'members toen 1-' ,brace'the'oppos'ite sides -'of the body of the nursing-bottle and th'e .tlevice may then be i employedto 'witliclraw the bottle from' the water and invert the same. to discharge the water therejtrom after'which the bottle may bedeposited in aniipright postion "upon a tableorshelfor other support and the ban dles- :7 relieved of pressure and-the device lifted tromfengagement with the bottle/ I It will beevi'd'ent-th'at by the pio v'i siono'i the I spring 9, which merely "yield-ably resists 'sep rauen otthebody embracing members 5 of the device, considerable pressure'may be exerted against the handles 7 to cause the "said members 5 to"fi-rmlyembrace theop j' p'osi t es'ide's of the nursing-bottle without"any likelihood" however i of such we pressure fbeing exerted against the wall of the body or: the

7 bettle as to c'a'use "crushing of the same, the

spring 9 yielding sulficiently to q'aermit of jne'c'essa-ryi relative separation of the bends 4,

under these conditions, to limit the pressure errmpmne and compei'isate it'o'r any 653K368- sivepressure whieh might-be brought-to bear upon the handles? by' -thegusertightly closher-hand about thefhandles, V 1

o Having thus thereof, and handles extending from the I body' embracing members at -the opposite ends 'thereo' f. I

exerted by the members '5"against" the body I It will also be understood from the fore going description and from an inspection of the drawings that due to the provision of the neck embracing portion 1 and the body embracing portions 5 and the-relative vertical disposition of these portions, the bottle, when grippje dbythe device, will'jbe'steadiedso that there willbejno likelihoodof any tiltingdisplacement of the bottle while the device is engaged therewith and is being manipulated. It will also be understood from the foregoing itli-at-the'device is adaptable to bottles of va-V rious sizes and is therefore capable of substantiallyuniversal use. I

It will furthermore be understood from the "foregoing description that, inasmuch as the "neck embracing member 1, s1demembers-2,

and body embracing members 5 are all-formed from? a single strand of resilient wire, the

neckembracing'inember Iconstitutes a re-' srlient connection between the body embracing members I claim is: v r. L 1. A device for manually handling bottles in the sterilization thereof comprisi-ngbodyembracing members, a-neck-embracing member connecting the bodyembracingmembers,

ar-rd handles extending: from the body-embracing members.

2. A device for manually hahdlingibottles in the sterilizationthereof comprising bodytlescribed the invention, what embracing members, a-resilient neck-embracing member connecting the body-embracing members, and. handles extending vfrom the body-embracingmembers.

1 A device ofthe'cl'ass described OInD ris- V i'ng "resilient body-embracing members, side 5. Aidevic'eottheclass described'coinpris ing' a neck embracing member, side members extending downwardly "and o-utwardlyf there-F from at opposite sides thereoflresilien't bod-yembracing members of arcuate form {connect 1 e'd: e'acliat oneend to a" respective one bf the side members, shanks extending from :the "other ends of the body-embracing members,

and handles carried by saidshanks;

Azdevice of the classy described comprising resilient arcuate body-embracing members, shanks eitending: from, corresponding ends of'the members, handles carried by jsfaid 11130 d shanks, side members connected by integral bends with the other ends of the body-ern bracing members and inclined upwardly'toward each other, a neck-embracing member extending between and connecting the upper ends of the side members, and a tension spring extending between said bends and yieldably connecting the same.

7. A device of the class described comprising a single strand of resilient wire bent to provide an intermediate neck-embracing member and side members extending downwardly and outwardly from opposite sides thereof, the strand at the lower ends of the side members extending on arcuate lines toward each other and being provided with acute bends providing body-embracing members extending on arcuate lines in opposite directions, a tension spring connected at its ends to the said bends and extending between the same,- the other ends of the body-embracing members being extended on diverging lines to provide shanks, and handles fitted to the said shanks.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

EDWIN JAMES HARRIS.