Specification of Henry Edwards : stoppers for feeding bottles, &c.

  • Edwards, Henry, 1941-
Date:
1858
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Henry Edwards : stoppers for feeding bottles, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Edwards Improvements in Stoppers for Feeding Eottles and other Vessels, vessel to flow out through the stopper. The plug is constantly pressed in an outward direction by a vulcanized india-rubber or other suitable elastic material or spring. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed by the said Henry Edwards in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5 20th August 1858. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PEESENTS SHALL COME, I, Henry Edwards, of Bishopsgate Street, in the City of London, send greeting. WHEEEAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord 10 One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry Edwards, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Edwards, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Edwards, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any 15 time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there¬ after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Improvements in Stoppers for Feeding Bottles and other Vessels,” upon the condition (amongst 201 others) that I, the said Henry Edwards, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to ' be filed in the Great Seal Patent Oflfice within six calendar months next 25 and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Edwards, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per- lormed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:— I his Invention has for its object, improvements in stoppers for feeding bottles and other vessels. For these purposes each stopper is made with a j)assage through it, and such passage for a part of its length is conical or larger at one end than the other, the larger end being towards the interior of the vessel. In the passage is applied a conical or suitable plug, which is ground 3 3(