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- the invention relates to food supply for babies, more specifically to an alternative to breastfeeding in public, on trips or at events - as well by fathers or other caregivers.
- bottles To meet babies' physical needs while away from home, parents and caregivers typically use diapers of high absorption capacity, baby bottles to hold breast milk or baby formula and bottle warmers to keep the milk or formula warm.
- bottle warmers One drawback to using bottle warmers however, is they require electricity or only maintain drinking temperature for a short time.
- mothers may find themselves unable to breastfeed in some situations, such as when stuck driving in traffic.
- US 4.966.580 describes a hose feeding device for patients. However, there is no indication of armpit pouches and tempering baby food at the body of a caregiver, instead it proposes the suspension of a bag on an infusion rack. Moreover, the assumption of the examiner, that due to its Fig. 1 , the tube must (also) be 10 to 40 cm long, seems unfounded.
- US Pat. No. 4,994,076 describes a supply system for small children with a suction hose, attached to a bottle, placed alongside the crib, but not of a pouch for armpits. Moreover, there is no hint of tempering the content by body contact with a caregiver.
- the claims relate to the construction of the lid on the bottle and its leakproofness.
- US Pat. No. 5,421 ,496 describes a baby feeding system, again with a hanging bottle, tube and teat.
- the claims refer to the suspension of the bottle on a frame, similar to infusion pouches, or around the neck of a not further indicated person.
- a reference to the tempering of baby food is not found here, nor does it handle the problem of overflow in the babies' mouth with possible suffocation and the risk of self- strangulation with the tube.
- WOOO / 27258 describes a drinking bottle with a drinking straw attached thereto in decorative designs, wherein the drinking straw is at the same time designed as a holder for the closure lid, so that neither the lid nor the drinking straw can be lost. There is no reference made to baby care.
- US 2016/0213574 A1 describes, in the summary and in FIG. 1 , a rescue and care system which is intended for treating exsiccosis, but the claims only refer to a combination of drinking bottle and drinking straw in all conceivable materials and embodiments. There is no reference made to handling and tempering of baby food.
- Another problem of baby feeding is aerophagia by sucking in air with the food.
- One first inventive step is to utilize body heat to keep baby food at drinking temperature. This is most easily done by using parent's armpits for storage, where formerly also temperature had regularly been taken, because it normally is about 37 °C or 98°F there - thus best for baby food.
- the second idea is to avoid aerophagia from sucking in air with the food by delivering it directly from a body-borne pouch without the possible access of air.
- a third inventive step is to help the mother or caregiver to control suction intensity - what a breastfeeding mother can naturally feel - with a transparent hose.
- a tiny and short hose preferably of silicone material, leads to a suction nipple, whereon a shield is inserted to prevent babies from swallowing the teat.
- the shield also has a profile for controlled restricting of the milk flow and blocking milk flow by tightly squeezing the hose.
- a preferred embodiment consists of disposable units in several sizes.
- An integral design reliably prevents co-suction of air and prevents the necessity of the "burping" or baby flatulence.
- hose and the nipple must not add up to more than 28 gram or 1 oz of material, which can then be recycled.
- the shield and the shoulder strap can be reused to reduce the disposable volume.
- pouches unlike bottles, have large contact areas for checking formula temperature, such as by pressing it gently to one's cheek, and thus provide more security against over-heating with quick adjustment possible through bodily contact.
- the pouch (possibly in warming sheaths) can also be suspended above the baby bed.
- the connection of the suction nipple with the hose makes it possible to integrate data transmitting lines, which transfer the output of sensors in the nipple to data loggers and monitoring systems.
- the transfer- and evaluation systems are preferably connected to the suspension of the feeding pouch, where possible electrical supply lines for warming pads on the infant feeding pouches also end.
- a shield which prevents swallowing the nipple is inserted into one of various circumferential grooves of an increasingly thickened shaft, resulting in a narrowing cross-section and thus increased suction resistance until blocking occurs when the shield is pressed into its end gap.
- the suction resistance can also be adjusted by means of a clamp or restriction valve at the attachment of the suction hose to the pouch in such a way that overfeeding and suction laziness are prevented.
- FIG. 1 shows the application of two armpit pouches (1 , a for the right side, b for the left) filled with completed baby nutrition, which are held on shoulder straps (4a and 4b) and where the hose (3) leads to a suction nipple (2 in Fig. 2), the shank (7 in Fig.2) of which carries circumferential notches (8 - 10 in Fig. 2), wherein a shield (6 in Fig. 3) can be inserted.
- the pouches (1a and 1b) are flexible and shaped to fit into the armpit of a parent or caregiver ( ⁇ 120 ml / 8 oz).
- the shoulder strap (4a and 4b) can be adjustable in length and carries a non-slip layer on its underside, or is secured with an additional holding strap (not shown) around the upper arm, or a connecting band between two units behind the neck of the feeding person.
- FIG. 2 shows a suction nipple (2) with a thickened portion (5) at the shank (7) and three circumferential notches (8-10).
- FIG. 3 shows a push-on shield (6) for placement onto the shank (7 in Fig. 2) of the suction nipple (2 in Fig. 2).
- the shield (6) has a key-shaped cutout (11, 12) with a midsection opening (13) and an upper narrowed opening (14).
- the shield (6) may be attached to the shank (7) by inserting the shank (7) into the key- shaped cutout (11 , 12) of the shield (6). Positioning the shield (6) within the rst circumferential notch (8) minimally restrict fluid flow to the suction nipple (2), while positioning it within the middle notch (9) or the last notch (10) further constricts the shank's cross-section and thus further restricts fluid flow to the suction nipple (2).
- the key-shaped cutout (11 , 12) of the shield (6) has a widely contoured midsection opening (13) that narrows to upper narrowed opening (14).
- Insertion of the shank (7) into the midsection opening (13) provides less restriction to fluid flow, while insertion of the shank(7) into the upper narrowed opening (14) provides greater restriction to fluid flow.
- the notches (8-10) along the thickened portion (5) of the shank (7) and the two openings (13, 14) within the shield (6) provide users with the ability to selectively control fluid flow to the suction nipple (2). For example, insertion of the shank's first circumferential notch (8) into the midsection opening (13) of the shield's key- shaped cutout (11 , 12) provides minimal fluid flow restriction. Insertion of the shank's last circumferential notch (10) in the upper narrowed opening (14) provides complete blockage of fluid throughput.
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Abstract
Pumped mother's milk or ready-to-eat baby food are kept warm in pouches (1a and 1b), carried in the armpits of parents ore caregivers, while the contents is fed to the baby via a fine silicon tube (3) with teat (2).
Description
System for Tempering and Delivering Baby Food CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application claims the benefit of DE Application No. DE 10 2016 011 009.0 filed September 8, 2016, which application is hereby incorporated by reference.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to food supply for babies, more specifically to an alternative to breastfeeding in public, on trips or at events - as well by fathers or other caregivers.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Today, young couples want to provide their baby with the best possible care, but do not want to forgo social participation. It has been shown that taking babies on trips and events usually does not harm them, but rather favors their development.
To meet babies' physical needs while away from home, parents and caregivers typically use diapers of high absorption capacity, baby bottles to hold breast milk or baby formula and bottle warmers to keep the milk or formula warm. One drawback to using bottle warmers however, is they require electricity or only maintain drinking temperature for a short time.
Many mothers are hesitant to breastfeed their baby in public, even if it would be necessary when baby gets hungry and starts to get restless and draws everyone's attention.
Or mothers may find themselves unable to breastfeed in some situations, such as when stuck driving in traffic.
Moreover, when changing from breast- to bottle feeding, mothers lack the control on suction intensity and milk flow.
As an additional consideration, fathers often feel left out and useless in providing for their baby when the baby is breastfed exclusively.
Finally, holding a baby in one arm and feeding the bottle with the other hand considerably hinders a caregiver from securing good hold for him- or herself and the baby.
PRIOR ART
It is evidently a favorite subject of male inventors to substitute holding baby bottles - which is apparently experienced as dull and time-consuming - by means of devices which hold or feed the vial as described in the following 25 patents:
US 0.345.800, US 1.097.097, US 2.201.257, US 2.362.020, US 2.545.414, US 2.880.950, US 2.890.007, US 3.000.601 , US 3.153.556, US 3.251.626, US 3.425.653, US 4.309.008, US 4.315.654, US 4.482.117, US 4.735.388, US 4.895.327 (A) US 4.951.977, US 5022.616, US 5.184.796, US 5.456.432, US 5.489.075, US 6.082.681,US 6.098.934 and US 8.118.268 (B2), as well as in DE 19/11 302 A1. Some of these, such as US 4,895,327 and 6,082,681 , are decorated in a child-friendly manner, while others, such as US 3,000,601 or US
2,545,414 are not so appealing and look like torture- or execution machines.
Moreover, all of these devices require the baby to be fixed in such a way that the nipple of the bottle is firmly positioned close to it's mouth.
However, with the children's growing urge to move, this is confining and it is also cumbersome to cradle babies firmly for it. This is probably the reason, why such systems did not succeed.
In contrast to that is US Pat. No. 20 100 258 519 A1, proposing an artificial breast, which can also be used by males and which contains up to 250 ml of milk and delivers it through a teat. Obviously however, the sight is rather disturbing and does not appeal to good care.
Similarly US Pat. No. 5,947,427 and US 4,793,533 have this feature too, but do not imitate a female breast in its design. However, there are no indications for tempering the baby food in these patent applications.
Furthermore, systems have been proposed in which babies suck the food through a tube connected to a storage container (US Pat. No. 5,049,127) or suspended above it (CN 201 342 103 Y) or next to it, which again is a baby bottle as described in US 3,645,262.
These allow babies more movement, but require constant vigilance that the child would not become entangled or even strangulate itself with the hoses. FDA regulations require hoses used in these systems therefore not to exceed one foot (30.48 cm) in length, thus not allowing enough length for the designs proposed.
Other drawbacks include cooling of the milk while in supply lines and cumbersome cleaning and sterilization of the hoses, if even possible in these systems.
When suspending the storage vessel above the head of the baby, this presents the additional risk of a possible overflow of milk within the baby's mouth, resulting e.g. from a defective mouthpiece, which can lead to asphyxiation when it spills over into the trachea.
OTHER PRIOR ART:
During German Patent and Trademark Office examination of prior-filed German Application No. DE 10 2016 0011 009 the priority of which is claimed here, the following patents have been cited as prior art:
US 4.966.580 describes a hose feeding device for patients. However, there is no indication of armpit pouches and tempering baby food at the body of a caregiver, instead it proposes the
suspension of a bag on an infusion rack. Moreover, the assumption of the examiner, that due to its Fig. 1 , the tube must (also) be 10 to 40 cm long, seems unfounded.
DE 298 01 166 U1 describes a backpack-like holder for bottles from which cyclists can supply themselves during travel by a suction hose. However, the patent claims only refer to the hose holders on the bicycle. There is no reference baby food or warming.
US Pat. No. 4,994,076 describes a supply system for small children with a suction hose, attached to a bottle, placed alongside the crib, but not of a pouch for armpits. Moreover, there is no hint of tempering the content by body contact with a caregiver. The claims relate to the construction of the lid on the bottle and its leakproofness.
US Pat. No. 5,421 ,496 describes a baby feeding system, again with a hanging bottle, tube and teat. The claims refer to the suspension of the bottle on a frame, similar to infusion pouches, or around the neck of a not further indicated person. A reference to the tempering of baby food is not found here, nor does it handle the problem of overflow in the babies' mouth with possible suffocation and the risk of self- strangulation with the tube.
WOOO / 27258 describes a drinking bottle with a drinking straw attached thereto in decorative designs, wherein the drinking straw is at the same time designed as a holder for the closure lid, so that neither the lid nor the drinking straw can be lost. There is no reference made to baby care.
US 2016/0213574 A1 describes, in the summary and in FIG. 1 , a rescue and care system which is intended for treating exsiccosis, but the claims only refer to a combination of drinking bottle and drinking straw in all conceivable materials and embodiments. There is no reference made to handling and tempering of baby food.
However, for that purpose quite a few other methods are theoretically known, but not indicated particularly for baby food:
Besides electric or combustion or catalytic heaters and insulation pouches -the effect of which decay rapidly- various processes are known for warming food, which are mainly due to reactions in combining and disintegration of salt mixtures, or other effects, such as heat accumulation by melting and solidifying paraffins or heat dissipation during the water absorption of zeolites.
However, all of these methods are cumbersome to handle, and it is particularly difficult to maintain the right temperature with them.
Another problem of baby feeding is aerophagia by sucking in air with the food.
Shaking standard baby bottles for better thermal distribution within the milk creates foam which contain air. To release swallowed air, which may cause discomfort, one can usually "burp" babies by positioning them over the caregiver's shoulder and patting the back of the infant, which may trigger a burp. But that may take quite some time.
There are approaches to avoid this by evacuation of the inside of the bottles, or inner squeeze bags, as in US 3.059.797, US 3.076.574, CN 104 257 506 (A), CN 201 888 942 U, as well as US 9.161.886 B2 and WO 2009/081 145, or to prevent this by valve mechanisms, as described in US Pat. Nos. 2,160,602,290 and 1,003,14347, EP 2224893 (B1), WO 2009 081145 (A2) and WO 2009081145 (A3).
Clinics and midwives in the U.S. use prepackaged disposable baby bottles, such as as Simi- lac brand "ready-to-feed bottles" according to US Pat. No. 4,869,912; EP 0 328 055 B1 and DE 689 03 398 12 from Abbott. Shaped in bellows at the lower part, these are compressible and contain no air.
However, all of the cases here referred to, relate to bottles or vials, which must be held by hand.
TASK OF THE INVENTION
Therefore it is an object of the present invention to keep baby or infant food at drinking temperature without requiring electricity, freeing one hand of the mother or caregiver, e.g. the father, from holding the bottle when feeding a baby, consistency in controlling the amount of food supplied, and to avoid all indicated risks and discomforts to babies, particularly asphyxiation.
INVENTIVE STEP
One first inventive step is to utilize body heat to keep baby food at drinking temperature. This is most easily done by using parent's armpits for storage, where formerly also temperature had regularly been taken, because it normally is about 37 °C or 98°F there - thus best for baby food.
The second idea is to avoid aerophagia from sucking in air with the food by delivering it directly from a body-borne pouch without the possible access of air.
This can easily be done by using a flexible pouch, wherefrom air bubbles and foam can easily be removed by squeezing it out. For this purpose a pouch of transparent film will be applied.
A third inventive step is to help the mother or caregiver to control suction intensity - what a breastfeeding mother can naturally feel - with a transparent hose.
Milk flow then could be supported by gentle pressure on the pouch, which is easily done and well controllable if the pouch is positioned in an armpit. Gentle pressure can there be applied with the upper arm against the wearer's ribcage.
EXECUTION
This is done in such a way that transparent pouches are filled with pumped-out mother's milk or prefabricated baby food and positioned on a carrier band over the shoulder to fit into the armpit of a caregiver. Using a flexible pouch, this will adapt to individual physiological distinctions.
This way several caring persons can each hold two pouches and keep it at drinking temperature.
A tiny and short hose, preferably of silicone material, leads to a suction nipple, whereon a shield is inserted to prevent babies from swallowing the teat. The shield also has a profile for controlled restricting of the milk flow and blocking milk flow by tightly squeezing the hose.
FURTHER DESCRIPTION AND ASPECTS OF THE APPLICATION
A preferred embodiment consists of disposable units in several sizes.
This is due to the fact, that it is difficult to keep the pouch, the hose and the teat clean and hygienic when used several times.
An integral design reliably prevents co-suction of air and prevents the necessity of the "burping" or baby flatulence.
Pouch, hose and the nipple must not add up to more than 28 gram or 1 oz of material, which can then be recycled. The shield and the shoulder strap can be reused to reduce the disposable volume.
Compared to the energy required for hot water to clean it, or boiling it for sterilization, this appears to be the better alternative in terms of environmental issues - not mentioning the time and effort required for thorough cleaning and sterilizing.
Moreover, cleaning the inside of a used silicon hose of less than two millimeters inner width -which is required for high tensile flexibility and as a "natural" resistor to spilling- might not even be feasible with household means.
TEMPERING
In the case of closed, sterile units of pouches with hose and teat and sterilized contents, no cooling is required during storage.
But this does not apply for use with breast milk or non-sterile infant formula. Therefore, these may be stored in a refrigerator for some time and heated up in warm water or in the microwave oven. Unlike with bottles, here hot spots in the formula can easily be equalized by gently squeezing the pouch.
Moreover, pouches, unlike bottles, have large contact areas for checking formula temperature, such as by pressing it gently to one's cheek, and thus provide more security against over-heating with quick adjustment possible through bodily contact.
EMBODIMENTS FOR CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
In clinical practice, the pouch (possibly in warming sheaths) can also be suspended above the baby bed. The connection of the suction nipple with the hose makes it possible to integrate data transmitting lines, which transfer the output of sensors in the nipple to data loggers and monitoring systems.
Thus, the limitations of the Finnish VTT project [1], and other attempts to use teats or pacifiers with integrated sensors to monitor the body functions of babies may be overcome:
They hitherto failed due to the necessary power supply or storage electronics, or the cost associated for suitable radio transmission.
Suction intensity, the temperature and humidity within the mouth, but also heart rate and quite a few other physiological functions could be checked. Other less vital conditions can also be monitored, such as ejection or loss of the nipple can be indicated.
In connection with these control devices, it also seems justifiable to use longer hose feeds. The transfer- and evaluation systems are preferably connected to the suspension of the feeding pouch, where possible electrical supply lines for warming pads on the infant feeding pouches also end.
This can be carried out in such a way that a baby can reach the teat by itself from the seventh month of life on. Elasticity of a silicon, spiral-wound or accordion- folded suction hose with a possible rubber-like suspension mounting of the pouch pulls the nipple away as soon as suction intensity decreases and contact with the mouth decreases, thus ejecting the nipple.
Use of a silicone hose with less than 2mm internal diameter and quite rough or greased inner walls (against too much capillary effect) prevents leakage and proves to be advantageous by providing a natural suction or leakage resistance.
In a preferred embodiment, a shield which prevents swallowing the nipple is inserted into one of various circumferential grooves of an increasingly thickened shaft, resulting in a narrowing cross-section and thus increased suction resistance until blocking occurs when the shield is pressed into its end gap.
Alternatively, the suction resistance can also be adjusted by means of a clamp or restriction valve at the attachment of the suction hose to the pouch in such a way that overfeeding and suction laziness are prevented.
This can also be done with the restoring force of a partially flexible suction pouch.
In case of a defective suction nipples and no restriction valve this would add a further barrier against draining or leakage of the contents.
DESCRIPTION WITH REFERENCE TO THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 shows the application of two armpit pouches (1 , a for the right side, b for the left) filled with completed baby nutrition, which are held on shoulder straps (4a and 4b) and where the hose (3) leads to a suction nipple (2 in Fig. 2), the shank (7 in Fig.2) of which carries circumferential notches (8 - 10 in Fig. 2), wherein a shield (6 in Fig. 3) can be inserted.
The pouches (1a and 1b) are flexible and shaped to fit into the armpit of a parent or caregiver (<120 ml / 8 oz).
The shoulder strap (4a and 4b) can be adjustable in length and carries a non-slip layer on its underside, or is secured with an additional holding strap (not shown) around the upper arm, or a connecting band between two units behind the neck of the feeding person.
FIG. 2 shows a suction nipple (2) with a thickened portion (5) at the shank (7) and three circumferential notches (8-10).
FIG. 3 shows a push-on shield (6) for placement onto the shank (7 in Fig. 2) of the suction nipple (2 in Fig. 2). The shield (6) has a key-shaped cutout (11, 12) with a midsection opening (13) and an upper narrowed opening (14).
The shield (6) may be attached to the shank (7) by inserting the shank (7) into the key- shaped cutout (11 , 12) of the shield (6). Positioning the shield (6) within the rst circumferential notch (8) minimally restrict fluid flow to the suction nipple (2), while positioning it within the middle notch (9) or the last notch (10) further constricts the shank's cross-section and thus further restricts fluid flow to the suction nipple (2). The key-shaped cutout (11 , 12) of the shield (6) has a widely contoured midsection opening (13) that narrows to upper narrowed opening (14). Insertion of the shank (7) into the midsection opening (13) provides less restriction to fluid flow, while insertion of the shank(7) into the upper narrowed opening (14) provides greater restriction to fluid flow. The notches (8-10) along the thickened portion (5) of the shank (7) and the two openings (13, 14) within the shield (6) provide users with the ability to selectively control fluid flow to the suction nipple (2). For example, insertion of the shank's first circumferential notch (8) into the midsection opening (13) of the shield's key- shaped cutout (11 , 12) provides minimal fluid flow restriction. Insertion of the shank's last circumferential notch (10) in the upper narrowed opening (14) provides complete blockage of fluid throughput.
Reference:
[1] "Sensoren furs Baby" in Spektrum der Wissenschaft (German edition of MIT letters) 11/2014, p. 19
Claims
1. A system for tempering and delivery of baby food, wherein the food is kept in pouches (1 a and 1b) which can be suspended over the shoulder on a strap (4a and 4b) and kept warm in an armpit of parents or caregivers, and are connected to a suction nipple (2) via a hose piece (3) of 10 to 40 cm length.
2. A System for tempering and delivery of baby food as to claim 1 , wherein the pouches consist of flexible, transparent films.
3. A System for tempering and delivery of baby food according to claim 2, wherein the hose consists of silicone and has an inner diameter of less than 2 millimeters.
4. A System for tempering and delivery of baby food as to claim 1 , wherein the hose consists of a plastic film folded concertina-like, or secured against collapsing by means of spiral inserts.
5. A System for tempering and delivery of baby food as to claims 1 to 3, wherein the tubular piece is spirally wound and in a hanging state turns by 360 ° to 480 °.
6. A System for tempering and delivery of baby food as to claim 1 , wherein the nipple has a thickening with progressive wall thickness on its shank and encircling notches (8-10), onto which a shield (6) (against swallowing the nipple) can be inserted with a matching key- shaped cutout (11), that can be pressed into a suitable cross-sectional constriction.
7. A System for tempering and delivery of baby food as to claim 6, wherein the shield (6) has an end gap (14) which can be pressed into the last of circumferential notches (10) of the suction shaft (7), to bloc the transfer of the liquid food.
8. A System for tempering and delivery of baby food as to claim 1 , wherein the suction nipple (2) is equipped with sensors for measuring physical conditions in baby's mouth, such as humidity, temperature and suction intensity.
9. A System for tempering and delivery of baby food as to claims 1 and 3 or 4, wherein transmission lines from the sensors, that are integrated in the suction cup, are carried within or along to the hose to connecting elements on the suspension of the pouch.
10. A System for tempering and delivery of baby food as to claim 1 , wherein the pouches can be warmed with a sheath or pillows containing electrical or other heating elements.
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