A pacifier may include a frame and a mouth shield secured to the frame at least partially by an overmold. An interface between the mouth shield and the frame may be continuous. A method for making a pacifier may include securing a frame in a shield mold defining a mouth shield cavity. The method may further include introducing a curable precursor material into the shield mold. The method may further include overmolding at least a portion of the curable material across at least a portion of the frame in the mold. The method may further include allowing the curable material to cure in the mouth shield cavity into a mouth shield at least partially secured to the frame by an overmold. An interface between the mouth shield and the frame may be continuous.
B29C 70/68 - Shaping composites, i.e. plastics material comprising reinforcements, fillers or preformed parts, e.g. inserts by incorporating or moulding on preformed parts, e.g. inserts or layers
B29C 70/78 - Moulding material on one side only of the preformed part
B29K 83/00 - Use of polymers having silicon, with or without sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen or carbon only, in the main chain, as moulding material
A pacifier may include a frame and a mouth shield secured to the frame at least partially by an overmold. An interface between the mouth shield and the frame may be continuous. A method for making a pacifier may include securing a frame in a shield mold defining a mouth shield cavity. The method may further include introducing a curable precursor material into the shield mold. The method may further include overmolding at least a portion of the curable material across at least a portion of the frame in the mold. The method may further include allowing the curable material to cure in the mouth shield cavity into a mouth shield at least partially secured to the frame by an overmold. An interface between the mouth shield and the frame may be continuous.
The invention relates to a feeding bottle comprising a color change indicator made of thermochromic pigments for temperature control, and the production and use thereof.
A61J 9/02 - Feeding-bottles in general with thermometers
C09D 11/50 - Sympathetic, colour-changing or similar inks
C09D 11/101 - Inks specially adapted for printing processes involving curing by wave energy or particle radiation, e.g. with UV-curing following the printing
G01K 11/12 - Measuring temperature based on physical or chemical changes not covered by group , , , or using changes in colour, translucency or reflectance
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SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR AN ANTI-COLIC AIRPATH FOR A BOTTLE
An apparatus may include an insert configured to be positioned between a nipple and an opening of a bottle when the nipple is mounted to the bottle. The insert is configured to facilitate airflow out of the bottle and through an interface between the nipple and the bottle when the nipple is dispensing fluid from within the bottle. A system may include a nipple, the insert, and a bottle with an opening. A method may include providing the insert, and positioning the insert between a nipple and an opening of a bottle when the nipple is mounted to the bottle.
The invention relates to a feeding bottle comprising a color change indicator made of thermochromic pigments for the purpose of temperature control, and production and use of said indicator.
A61J 9/02 - Feeding-bottles in general with thermometers
C09D 11/50 - Sympathetic, colour-changing or similar inks
G01K 11/12 - Measuring temperature based on physical or chemical changes not covered by group , , , or using changes in colour, translucency or reflectance
C09D 11/037 - Printing inks characterised by features other than the chemical nature of the binder characterised by the pigment
C09D 11/101 - Inks specially adapted for printing processes involving curing by wave energy or particle radiation, e.g. with UV-curing following the printing
the at least one drinking hole is arranged in the elevated surface so that the suction part with the elevated surface can be pressed in a sealing manner against an inwardly bulging sealing surface on the inside of the cap bottom of a cap to cover the bottle teat.
A drinking attachment (10) for drinking vessels (12), comprising a funnel-like circumferential drinking rim (14), which is open towards the drinking vessel (12), having a fastening section (16) for fastening the drinking attachment (10) to an edge region of the drinking vessel surrounding an opening of the drinking vessel (12), and a bowl-shaped elastic sealing disc (20), which can be inserted into the drinking rim (14) for sealing the drinking rim (14), the sealing disc (20) abutting circumferentially against the drinking rim (14) in the region of the end of the drinking rim (19, which is free in the intended mounting state of the drinking attachment (10) on a drinking vessel (12), while forming an interstice (22), which is open towards the drinking vessel (12), and being designed in such a way that it can be partially lifted from the drinking rim (14) by a suction action of a user of the drinking attachment (10), in order to open a passage to the interstice (22), the sealing disc (20) having in the region of its bottom an outwardly projecting circumferential flange (26), which is designed to come to rest on the edge surrounding the opening of the drinking vessel (12), the drinking rim (14) being provided with a clamping flange (32) projecting towards the sealing disc for clamping the flange (26) of the sealing disc (20) against the edge of the opening of the drinking vessel (12) upon fastening the drinking attachment (10) on a drinking vessel (12), wherein the flange (26) of the sealing disc (20) is provided with a number of openings (28) to the interstice (22) and wherein the clamping flange (32) ends in front of the openings (28) provided in the flange (26) of the sealing disc (20).
The invention relates to a drinking lid (10) for drinking containers (12) comprising a funnel-like, circumferential drinking edge (14), which is open to the drinking container (12), having a fastening section (16) for fastening the drinking lid (10) to an edge region surrounding an opening of the drinking container (12), and a bowl-shaped, elastic gasket (20), which can be inserted into the drinking edge (14), for sealing the drinking edge (14). The gasket (20) circumferentially contacts the drinking edge (14) in the region of the free end of the drinking edge (14), when the drinking lid (10) is properly installed on the drinking container (12), forming an intermediate chamber (22) which is open to the drinking container (12), and is designed such that it can be partially raised from the drinking edge (14) by a suction action of a user of the drinking lid (10), in order to free a passage to the intermediate chamber (22). The gasket (20) has, in the region of the base thereof, an outwardly protruding circumferential flange (26), which is designed to contact the edge surrounding the opening of the drinking container (12), and the drinking edge (14) has a clamping flange (32), which projects toward the gasket, in order to clamp the flange (26) of the gasket (20) against the edge of the opening of the drinking container (12) as the drinking lid (10) is fastened to a drinking container (12), the flange (26) of the gasket (20) having a number of openings (28) to the intermediate chamber (22), with the clamping flange (32) ending before the openings (28) provided in the flange (26) of the gasket (20).
The present disclosure is directed to a drinking vessel that can include a drinking container and a drinking attachment that is coupled to the container. A straw can be positioned through an opening in the drinking attachment. The straw can include a top end that includes an opening through which a user can withdraw liquid and a bottom end. A drinking valve can be positioned along the bottom end of the straw and can include a tube that is open on the top and closed on the bottom and further includes at least one flow-through opening connecting the inside of the valve to the outside of the straw. A suction tube can include a tube wall that can be slid over the valve to couple the straw to the suction tube.
B65D 47/06 - Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubesClosures with discharging devices other than pumps with discharge nozzles or passages
B65D 47/24 - Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with poppet valves
The invention relates to a drinking vessel comprising a drinking attachment (2) having a bottle wall (4) and a drinking element (25) which has a drinking opening above a passage channel (44) extending through the drinking element; a drinking valve arranged in the passage channel, wherein the drinking valve comprises a tube (27) which is open on the top and closed at the bottom and which has at least one flow-through opening (34) in a wall, which connects the inside of the tube to the outside of the tube, wherein the wall of the tube, at least in the area of the flow-through opening, is formed as a soft elastic diaphragm (32).
Teat in particular for babies and toddlers, having a hollow sucking part, which has at least one through-passage opening for liquid food and is connected, at the bottom, to a substantially circular-disc-shaped teat flange, which serves for fastening on the mouth opening of a container by means of a fastening ring with a circular-disc-shaped annular flange which engages over the teat flange and is intended for pressing the underside of the teat flange flatly against the end periphery of the mouth opening, and having at least one depression on the upper side of the teat flange, said depression extending in the radial direction of the teat flange, and therefore, when the teat is fastened on the mouth opening of a container, an annular flange of a fastening ring, said annular flange pressing against the upper side of the teat flange, is spaced apart from the upper side of the base of the depression and the teat flange, at least in the region of the depression, has sufficient flexibility for the base to arch upwards and for air to flow radially from the outside, beneath the upwardly arched base of the depression, into the container when the teat has been fastened on the mouth opening of a container and negative pressure is being generated in the container as a result of the sucking part being sucked.
A teat with a base and a hollow and flexible mouthpiece protruding from it with a palate contact area, characterized in that the mouthpiece has a planar thinning area fully or partially extending over the palate contact area, in which the mouthpiece has a smaller wall thickness than in its adjacent areas.
A drinking container with a drinking vessel, a drinking cap and a threaded ring. The drinking vessel has an inner space, a circular vessel opening, an opening edge surrounding the vessel opening and an external thread next to the vessel opening. The drinking cap has a bottom wall, a ring flange surrounding the bottom wall for abutment on the opening edge of the drinking vessel, a drinking element protruding outwards from the bottom wall and a valve for sealing and opening a passage from the inner space to the outside of the mouthpiece, which is openable for drinking and otherwise closable. A ventilation channel is present in the bottom side of the ring flange or in the top side of the opening edge.
A breast milk pump that is easier to disassemble for cleaning and is easier to reassemble. It includes a housing, a cup-like displacement chamber a connection channel and a milk collection container releasably attached. A suction bell is connected to an inlet of the connection channel. It further includes a cup-like membrane element and a coupling element and a lever with rotatable mounting.
A61M 1/00 - Suction or pumping devices for medical purposesDevices for carrying-off, for treatment of, or for carrying-over, body-liquidsDrainage systems
A suction device having a base and a hollow and soft elastic mouthpiece protruding therefrom, which has a palate abutment region, is characterised in that the mouthpiece has a flat thinned region partially or wholly assuming the palate abutment region, the mouthpiece having a thinner wall thickness than in its adjacent regions in said thinned region.
Nursing pad for placement on the breast of a woman, with a thin walled flexible pad body for the purpose of adapting to the shape of a breast, said pad having a circumferential outer edge, an inner surface for placement against the breast and an outer surface, wherein an elevation projects from the inner surface of the pad body for the purpose of accommodating a nipple.
The invention is directed to a push-pull closure for a drink container including a mouthpiece holder. The container includes a pin, which projects into the through-opening of the mouthpiece holder; several bars, parallel to the pin and arranged around the pin, which are connected to the mouthpiece holder and to the pin; a mouthpiece that is axially displaceable and sealing with respect to the mouthpiece on the outer circumference and accommodating the pin in the further through-opening; at least one circumferential seal element, which blocks and unblocks the passage of liquid through the further through-opening in an closing/opening position of the mouthpiece in the mouthpiece holder; and several ribs of a soft elastic material, axially extending on the circumference of the mouthpiece at the bottom, wherein the mouthpiece may be inserted into the mouthpiece holder, and the bars can engage free spaces and the ribs engage recesses between the bars.
A breast milk pump having an electric motor, a pump driven by the motor, a suction cup, an electrically activated first three-way valve in a suction line, an electrically activated second three-way valve in a pressure line, an electronic control system, which sets the electric motor into an operating mode or an idle mode depending on an activation of a switch; in the operating mode, it operates the electric motor and the electrically activated first and second three-way valves in cycles, which comprise a suction phase, in which the electric motor is switched on, the inlet of the pump is connected to the suction cup via the first three-way valve and a floater valve, the pump outlet is connected via the second three-way valve.
A lip valve that is opened when the nipple flange is not fastened to a bottle arranged in a deforming area next to the contact area so that the deformation of the nipple flange that arises from pressing the fastening ring against the contact area closes the valve.
Closure system for a non-spill feeding bottle for children, with • a lower closure ring, which has a substantially cylindrical lower jacket part with an inner thread that can be screwed onto an outer thread of a bottle, and a lower partition wall which, above the inner thread, is connected at the edge to the lower jacket part, blocks off the cross section of the lower jacket part and has a first top face and a first bottom face with at least one lower through-hole opening out, on the one hand, in the first top face and, on the other hand, in the first bottom face, • an upper closure ring, which has a substantially cylindrical upper jacket part with an outer thread that can be connected to a screw ring in order to secure a teat on the upper edge of the upper jacket part, and an upper partition wall which is connected at the edge to the upper jacket part, blocks off the cross section of the upper jacket part and has a second top face and, sitting sealingly on the first top face, a second bottom face with at least one upper through-hole opening out, on the one hand, in the second bottom face and, on the other hand, in the second top face, • locking elements with which the lower closure ring and the upper closure ring are locked onto each other such that they are rotatable relative to each other and releasable, • wherein a sealing lip, concentric to the lower jacket part and made of a soft elastic material, protrudes upwards from the first top face and, as its distance from the first top face increases, it widens radially outwards and bears with elastic pretensioning on a sealing face on the inside of a wall that protrudes downwards from the second bottom face and is concentric to the upper jacket part, or vice versa, and, by turning the upper closure ring with respect to the lower closure ring, the upper through-hole can alternately be brought into congruent and non-congruent positions with respect to the lower through-hole.
B65D 47/26 - Closures with discharging devices other than pumps comprising hand-operated members for controlling discharge with slide valves, e.g. formed with slidable spouts
A61J 11/04 - Teats with means for fastening to bottles
The invention relates to a feeding bottle, comprising a bottle having a bottle neck and an opening that is surrounded by an opening rim of the bottle neck, the rim comprising at least one rim section that protrudes outwardly in the direction of the centre line of the bottle less far than other rim sections of the opening rim, and further comprising a closure membrane sealed onto the opening rim, a rotating ring arranged on the outside on the bottle neck, wherein the rotating ring and the bottle neck comprise cooperating means for guiding the rotating ring on a circular path around the centre line of the bottle, and wherein the rotating ring has cutting means, which in a starting position are arranged above a membrane section of the closure membrane that protrudes outwardly in the direction of the centre line of the bottle less far than other membrane sections of the closure membrane and which, by turning the rotating ring, can be displaced towards other membrane sections of the membrane in which said cutting means cut into the closure membrane, and further comprising a teat, the lower edge of which is fastened in a sealing manner to the rotating ring.
Push-pull closure for a drink container comprising a body element which comprises a through-opening and a fastening device, with which it may be sealingly and releasably connected to an opening of the drink container, a mouthpiece which may be axially displaceably inserted into the through-opening of the body element and which comprises at least one locking portion which may engage behind the through-opening of the body element, and a locking element which may be releasably attached to the inner face of the body element facing the drink container, the locking element being arranged so that the locking portion of the mouthpiece may not adopt a position in which it does not engage behind the through-opening of the body element, when the mouthpiece is inserted into the through-opening and the locking element is attached to the inner face of the body element.
Electrical pump for breast milk, with an electric motor, a pump driven by the electric motor, at least one suction cup, a suction line connecting the suction cup to the pump, a breast milk outlet communicating with the suction cup, a venting line communicating with the suction cup, an electrically activated venting valve in the venting line, means for switching the electric motor on and off, means for adjusting the speed of the electric motor, an electronic control system which is connected to the means for switching on and off, to the means for adjusting the speed, to the electric motor and to the electrically activated venting valve and which is configured to switch the electric motor on and off depending on an activation of the means for switching on and off, to allow the electric motor to run at a speed according to the setting of the means for adjusting the speed and to operate the electric motor continuously and/or to operate the electric motor in cycles in which the electric motor is alternately switched on and switched off, wherein the electronic control system opens the venting valve when the electric motor is switched off and closes the venting valve when the electric motor is switched on.
The invention relates to a closure system for a leak proof bottle for baby food comprising: a lower closure ring with a lower shell part with an inner thread, and a separating wall that is connected to the lower shell part above the inner thread on the edge and closing off the cross section thereof with a first upper side and a first bottom side and a lower through flow hole ending in the first upper side and in the first bottom side; an upper closure ring comprising a upper shell part with an outer thread for connecting to a screw ring for fastening a drinking nipple and a separating wall that is connected on the edge to the upper shell part and sealingly closing off the cross section thereof with a second upper side and a second bottom side located on the first upper side and an upper through flow hole ending in the second bottom side and in the second upper side; closure elements that close off the lower closure ring and the upper closure ring relative to each other in a rotatable and detachable manner; wherein on the first upper side, a circular lip seal made of a soft elastic material that is concentric in relation to the bottom shell part with at least one axially aligned sealing lip is arranged and on the second bottom side, a circular sealing geometry that is engaged to the lip seal and concentric to the upper shell part is arranged.
A device for fastening a pacifier to the clothing of a child, comprising • a flexible band, • means for fastening to the pacifier at one end of the band and • a clip for fastening to the clothing of the child at the other end of the band, comprising a disk-like carrier having two arms on one side that have a claw on each end, wherein said claws can be pivoted from a position close to each other into a position away from each other by actuating at least one spring-elastic arm. When the arm is released, the claws return to the position close to each other.
Feeding bottle, in particular for babies and toddlers, having a bottle, which has a bottle opening and an external thread enclosing the same, having a teat, which has a nipple carrier with a fastening periphery and, on the nipple carrier, a nipple with a drinking hole in a side surface, having a screw-connection ring, which has an internal thread for screwing onto the external thread and means of connection to the fastening periphery of the teat, in order to keep the teat in front of the bottle opening, and having a covering cap, which can be positioned on the teat, wherein the covering cap, when placed in position, has the inside of its side wall pushing with sealing action against that side surface of the nipple which contains the drinking hole and has the inside of its base pushing against an opposite side surface of the nipple, which is oriented at an acute angle to the central axis of the fastening periphery.
The invention relates to a push-pull closure for a drink container having a body element (10) comprising a through-passage (18) and a fastening device (12) by means of which it can be sealingly and releaseably connected to an opening of the drink container (110), a mouthpiece (40) that can be inserted axially displaceably into the through-passage (18) of the body element (10) and has at least one locking section (44) that can engage behind the through-passage (18) of the body element (10), and a locking element (80) that can be releaseably attached to the inside of the body element (80) facing the drink container (110), wherein the locking element (80) is disposed such that the locking segment (44) of the mouthpiece (40) cannot assume a position in which said section does not engage behind the through-passage (18) of the body element (10) when the mouthpiece (40) is inserted into the through-passage (18) and the locking element (80) is attached to the inside of the body element (10).
Comforter with a mouth shield, and with a hollow teat part which is fixed tightly in an opening of the mouth shield with the aid of an insert piece and which has a mouth portion, a shaft portion, and a circumferential flange arranged on the end of the shaft portion directed away from the mouth portion, wherein the teat part has a safety strip which is made of a relatively hard material and which is connected to the mouth portion, extends into the area of the flange and has a widened part in that area.
The invention relates to a feeding bottle having a drinking teat made of a flexible plastic, a bottle made from plastic having higher strength than the flexible plastic and connected to the drinking teat in one piece by means of injection molding, and a reinforcement thread extending from the bottle through the drinking teat up to the drinking opening.
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