Specification of John Albert Dauncey : apparatus for feeding infants, &c.

  • Dauncey, John Albert.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Specification of John Albert Dauncey : apparatus for feeding infants, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Apparatus for Feeding Infants, &c. LETTERS PATENT to John Albert Dauncey, of Bury, in the County of Lancaster, Yarn Agents’ Salesman, for the Invention of “ Improvements in Apparatus for Supplying Liquid Nourishment to Infants and Invalids, AND IN THE APPLICATION OF SUCH IMPROVEMENTS TO THE FEEDING OF ANIMALS.” Sealed the 10 th December 1861, and dated the 12th June 1861. ; PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Albert Dauncey at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 12th June 1861, * I, John Albert Dauncey, of Bury, in the County of Lancaster, Yarn 5 Agents’ Salesman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “ Im¬ provements in Apparatus for Supplying Liquid Nourishment to Infants and Invalids, and in the Application of such Improvements to the Feeding of Animals,” to be as follows:— The Invention relates, first, to a certain description of apparatus used for 10 supplying liquid nourishment to invalids and infants, and which is now well known, wherein an elastic tube is employed externally, and a rigid internal tube to convey the liquid from the vessel to the consumer. My improvement consists in the employment of a jointed tube, for the external tube in contradistinction to the continuous elastic one now used, so 15 that it may be disunited for the purpose of cleaning, and also in the use of an