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Protective sleeves for containers

Aspects of the invention include a sleeve or wrap for protecting a container. In certain embodiments, the sleeve or wrap is a protective encasement for protecting a container, such as a bottle. In certain embodiments, the sleeve or wrap includes a body with a lumen, wherein the body is configured for holding and / or containing the container. For instance, in one embodiment, the protective sleeve includes a tubular body and at least a first opening in the protective body that is adapted for receiving the container. In certain embodiments, the body of the sleeve includes silicone. Accordingly, in certain embodiments, the sleeve is a protective silicone sleeve that is adapted to hold and / or contain a container, thereby protecting the container from damage (e.g., breaking). Also provided is a system for protecting a container that includes a protective sleeve, as described above, and a container that is configured for being associated, e.g., fit within, the protective sleeve.
Owner:MARCUS JOY LLC DBA BABYLIFE

Stacked-container reusable bottle, system and method providing flexible use and mixing

A multi-chambered container assembly including a two-piece adapter having a base and a hollow member that cooperate to open and close a passage between a first chamber provided by a bottle and a second chamber formed in the hollow member. The base defines a first opening and has a substantially semi-spherical concave wall surrounding the first opening, and the hollow member includes a substantially semi-spherical convex wall that pivotally (slidably) fits within the concave wall of the base. The hollow member is snap-coupled to the base using a pair of pins and a pair of cam grooves that facilitate movement of the hollow member between a closed (first) position and an open (second) position. The base can be integrally formed onto the bottle to provide a two-piece multi-chambered container.
Owner:SAID JOSE E

Protective sleeves for containers

Aspects of the invention include a sleeve or wrap for protecting a container. In certain embodiments, the sleeve or wrap is a protective encasement for protecting a container, such as a bottle. In certain embodiments, the sleeve or wrap includes a body with a lumen, wherein the body is configured for holding and / or containing the container. For instance, in one embodiment, the protective sleeve includes a tubular body and at least a first opening in the protective body that is adapted for receiving the container. In certain embodiments, the body of the sleeve includes silicone. Accordingly, in certain embodiments, the sleeve is a protective silicone sleeve that is adapted to hold and / or contain a container, thereby protecting the container from damage (e.g., breaking). Also provided is a system for protecting a container that includes a protective sleeve, as described above, and a container that is configured for being associated, e.g., fit within, the protective sleeve.
Owner:MARCUS JOY LLC DBA BABYLIFE

Baby bottle and milk storage assembly

A baby bottle and milk storage assembly configured to define a segmented configuration, with each segment being useful for storing and dispensing a food product used for feeding an infant. The bottle assembly is configured such that a plurality of bottle segments may be joined in fluid communication in an end-to-end fashion. For storage, individual or joined segments may be easily stacked in a nesting relationship. The bottle assembly includes at least one bottle segment, at least one end cap, at least one connector ring, and a neck member. An end cap is secured to the bottom end of a bottle segment and serves to close the bottom end of the bottle segment and as a base for the bottle assembly. Either an end cap or a connector ring is mounted on the upper end of the bottle segment. In the event a connector ring is mounted on the upper end of the bottle segment, another bottle segment or a neck member is mounted thereon. The end cap defines an end wall about which is disposed an annular wall which defines an upper end extending above the end wall and a lower end extending below the end wall. The lower end of the annular wall defines an enlarged radius to accomplish nesting of two such end caps.
Owner:BABE EEZ

Container closure containing a mix

A container closure to be attached to a liquid container around a container opening of a liquid container. The container closure includes a storage compartment which includes a mix, such as powder or concentrated liquid. The storage compartment includes a seal or a rotating member to seal the mix within the storage compartment. A plunger unseals the seal or the rotating member is rotated to allow the mix to be mixed with the liquid in a liquid container to flavor the liquid when the container closure is attached to the liquid container.
Owner:KISER DANNY

Dual chamber nursery bottle

ActiveUS7331478B2Readily disassembled and cleanedBottlesInternal framesEngineeringBottle
A dual chamber nursery bottle including upper and lower cylindrical shaped chambers disposed on a common axis one above the other and separated from one another by a rotatable valve assembly that is disposed on the common axis and in contact with the upper and lower chambers.
Owner:ALJADI SALMA E

Portable baby bottle blender

A portable baby bottle blender includes a baby bottle having a top collar with external threads and a bottom collar with external threads. A top cap has a central aperture. The top cap is internally threaded to be removable threaded onto the top collar of the baby bottle and holds a feeding nipple extending through the central aperture of the top cap onto the top collar. A sealing O-ring fits onto the bottom collar of the baby bottle. A bottom cap has a rim internally threaded. An agitating unit is centrally retained within the bottom cap. When the rim of the bottom cap is removably threaded onto the bottom collar of the baby bottle and against the sealing O-ring, the agitating unit extends into the bottom collar of the baby bottle. A base member has a top recess to receive the bottom cap on the baby bottle therein. A spur-crown gear coupling is for operating the agitating unit, so that the mixing blade assembly mixes formula within water placed through the top collar of the baby bottle.
Owner:EASY PARENTS

Two-compartment container and method of preparing the same

A container holding two separate components, which are mixed prior to use is provided. The container comprises a housing defining a first compartment having a sealable opening and a neck portion between said first compartment and said opening. The container further comprises a displaceable member which is disposed within the housing which has a partition wall with an edge adapted for sealing engagement with the internal wall of the neck portion, thereby defining a second compartment sealed from the first compartment and being in flow communication with the opening. The displaceable member is axially displaceable between two positions along an axis extending through the neck portion. These two positions comprise a first position where the edge of the partition wall sealably engages the internal walls of the neck portion, and a second position where the edge of the partition wall and the internal walls of the neck portion are disengaged, permitting flow communication between the two compartments. The container with two components is prepared by first introducing a first component into the first compartment, placing the displacable member within the compartment and fitting it into said first position, introducing the second component into the second compartment and sealing the opening.
Owner:M L I S PROJECTS LTD +1

Baby bottle warmer

A method and apparatus utilizing an exothermic reaction to generate a heated gas that warms a baby bottle, providing a baby bottle warmer that is portable, convenient to use, simple, and lightweight. In one embodiment, a heating vessel holds the baby bottle and a vessel top removably attaches to an upper section of the heating vessel. A solution release mechanism situated in a lower section of said heating vessel includes a solution container having an activating liquid disposed therein, and a device for puncturing the solution container responsive to pressure supplied by insertion of the baby bottle. A heating element situated below the solution release mechanism includes a material for exothermically reacting with the activating liquid to generate the heated gas. In one embodiment, when a baby bottle is inserted into the bottle warmer, an upper and lower unit are pressured together to release a saline solution onto a magnesium wafer. Some embodiments of the baby bottle warmer comprise a system for spacing apart the lower and upper units, which is useful for storage and / or travel. Upon insertion of the baby bottle and application of pressure, the system disengages, thereby allowing the upper and lower units to move together.
Owner:KEVIN A CREIGHTON +1

Pacifier, a system and a method for maintaining proper dentitions

ActiveUS7294141B2Inhibition formationPrevent mandibular displacementTeatsDomestic articlesOpen biteEngineering
A pacifier, a system and a method for maintaining proper dentitions in a child are provided. The pacifier may have a bulb which is connected to an external shield by an isthmus. A child may suck on the bulb when the pacifier is worn in the mouth. The isthmus connecting the bulb and the external shield may be flat. Moreover, the isthmus may have a thickness which may be less than a thickness of known connectors, and may be wider from side-to-side than connectors associated with known pacifiers which connect a bulb and an external shield. As a result, the pacifier may prevent the child from developing, for example, an open bite or other malocclusion. The pacifier may or may not incorporate a thickened pillow to aid in the reduction of pain associated with teething.
Owner:ORTHO TAIN INC

Air inlet valve of a nipple used for a bottle

An air inlet valve of a nipple used for a bottle has an annular bottom. The air inlet valve has a tapered shape with a flat bottom end. The air inlet valve comprises an air inlet channel vertically penetrates through the air inlet valve and having a tip end; a distal end of the air inlet channel being reduced so as to form a tapered reducing portion; a periphery of the air inlet channel being formed with a tapered cylinder; one side of the tapered cylinder near the bottom of the nipple being thicker than other side of the tapered cylinder for enhancing the structure of the air inlet valve; two valve gates formed at two sides of the flat bottom end; a slit being formed between the valve gates; and the slit being communicated to the air inlet channel.
Owner:MIIN TSANG SHEU +1

Bottle adapter

The invention provides a bottle adapter for securing an attachment to a bottle. The attachment can be a nipple and ring assembly for a baby bottle. The bottle adapter has a base, and the base has a bottom end and a top end. A bottle receiving portion extends from the bottom end of the base, and an attachment receiving portion extends from the top end of the base. The bottle receiving portion includes an outer bottle receiving ring and an inner bottle receiving ring. The attachment receiving portion includes an outer attachment receiving ring and an inner attachment receiving ring. The base of the bottle adapter also includes a passage defined therein for allowing the flow of a fluid from the bottle receiving portion to the attachment receiving portion of the bottle adapter. In an embodiment of the invention, the bottle adapter is sized to adapt both a disposable liner bottle and a traditional bottle to receive both a disposable liner bottle nipple and ring assembly and a traditional nipple and ring assembly.
Owner:DEJONG LORRAINE +1

Bottle assembly

InactiveUS20050056610A1Facilitates feeding and cleaning and manufactureFacilitates use and assembly and storageBottlesLarge containersEngineeringAreola
A bottle assembly is provided. The bottle has inner and outer bodies that are selectively engageable and form a space therebetween for insulation by air. The inner and outer bottles can be selectively secured by a deformable collar. The bottle assembly may have a vented nipple that promotes latch-on to an areola region of the nipple.
Owner:PLAYTEX PROD INC

Feeding system for infants

A feeding system for a neonate is provided that includes a fluid reservoir adapted to contain fluid to be provided to the neonate, a nipple in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir having at least one fluid outlet adapted to enable the neonate to take the fluid therefrom by mouth and a control system adapted to automatically maintain the pressure in the fluid reservoir substantially neutral relative to the pressure external to the fluid outlet as the fluid is taken by the neonate. The feeding system may also include a heating system adapted to warm the fluid and to automatically maintain the temperature of the fluid in the reservoir at a temperature near the body temperature of the neonate as the fluid is provided to the neonate.
Owner:MCCARTY READ +3

Bottle with mixing system

There is provided an infant feeding bottle system having an agitator for mixing a powder substance with a liquid in a non-rigid disposable liner. The bottle system permits a user to mix powdered formula directly inside a non-rigid liner. The bottle system enhances the mixing effect, resulting in improved solubility, and provides for a self-contained uninterrupted mixing and feeding process.
Owner:JMBH HLDG LLC

Computer Controlled Bottle for Oral Feeding of a Patient

Generally, the present invention relates to medical devices and more particularly to an computer controlled bottle system for example, for a preterm infant oral feeding. An embodiment of the invention is directed to a method for delivering nutritional fluids orally to a preterm infant comprising the steps of measuring the infant's inspired breath to breath amplitude, measuring the infant's intraoral sucking pressure, establishing threshold values for infant's inspired breath to breath amplitude and infant's intraoral sucking pressure, and delivering nutritional fluids to the infant only when the infant's inspired breath to breath amplitude and infant's intraoral sucking pressure both simultaneously satisfy their respective threshold values.
Owner:INFOSCITEX +2

Infant feeding and storage system

A breast milk feeding and storage system is provided. The system has a liner having an open end, a holder having an open end, and an adapter system. The liner open end and the adapter system are engageable with the holder open end to allow a user to selectively insert breast milk into the liner, feed the breast milk from the liner or store the breast milk in the liner.
Owner:JMBH HLDG LLC

Nipple

A nipple simulating the shape and function of a woman's breast is provided. The nipple has a stem and a base. The nipple preferably has a securing structure integrally formed to the base. The base has an areola region and a bulbous region. The areola region is positioned between the stem and the bulbous region, and is designed to simulate the shape of the areola region of a woman's breast. The bulbous region is positioned between the areola region and the securing structure, and is designed to simulate the shape of the region of a woman's breast surrounding the areola region.
Owner:ANGELCARE FEEDING USA LLC

Vented, low-drip nursing nipple

A nipple assembly for a nursing bottle includes a nipple having a slit at the bottom of a concave depression in its tip acting as a fluid outlet valve. The nipple includes a flange seated on the rim of the bottle and held in place by a cap having a central opening through which the nipple extends. A threaded ring on the cap engages the threaded bottle neck with the outer circumferential edge of the nipple's flange compressed between the annular top and the rim of the bottle. The nipple flange includes vent apertures between its inner and outer circumferential edges, and a raised annular bead between its inner circumferential edge and the aperture. The annular bead provides a seal between flange and the cap that prevents fluid from leaking out the vent apertures when air pressure within the bottle is not substantially lower than ambient air pressure. When the air pressure inside the bottle falls below ambient air pressure as the infant suck fluid from the bottle, the annular bead moves away from the cap to break the seal, thereby permitting air to pass through the central opening and into the bottle via the vent apertures. The nipple includes one or more raised annular beads to provide tactile stimulation to a nursing infant and to improve the seal between the infant's lips and the nipple body to limit fluid leakage.
Owner:LEWIS JULIE MAUREEN +1

Ready to drink container with nipple and needle penetrable and laser resealable portion, and related method

A container is provided for storing a product, such as a fat containing liquid product, and includes a body defining a chamber for receiving the product; and a container closure including a sealing portion for sealing the product within the chamber. The container closure includes a member forming a substantially fluid-tight seal between the container closure and the body; a nipple in fluid communication with the chamber that seals the chamber with respect to the ambient atmosphere during storage of the product in the chamber and that can be opened to dispense product from the chamber therethrough; and a needle penetrable and laser resealable portion that is penetrable by the needle for aseptically filling the chamber with the product, and that is thermally resealable by the application of laser radiation thereto to seal the product within the chamber.
Owner:MEDINSTILL DEV

Lubricious compositions and articles made therefrom

The present disclosure provides a lubricious polymeric composition that includes polymer and one or more lubricants. Articles formed from the lubricious polymeric composition possess enhanced softness, flexibility and lubricity. The present disclosure also provides a method for making an article formed from a lubricious polymeric composition having polymer and one or more lubricants.
Owner:EDGEWELL PERSONAL CARE BRANDS LLC

Fully continuously vented drinking cup for infants and children

InactiveUS20060201902A1Eliminate generationPrevention of introduction of air bubblesFeeding-bottlesTeatsFull Term InfantInfant feeding
A fully and continuously vented drinking cup or container for infants and children, which consists of a vessel or container for containing a liquid or formula, having a resilient spout which rests upon its uppermost edge. The interior aspects of the feeding spout, and the feeding diaphragm, are all molded so as to arrange the diaphragm slit, or opening through which the liquid flows, in a position that will be vertically aligned between the lips of the infant feeding, to thereby allow the infant to open the spout and allow the liquid to flow, just as if the child is drinking from a cup. The diaphragm may be shaped concavely, with respect to the structure of the feeding spout. A cap firmly approximates the interior aspects of the feeding spout, and applies it to the top or upper edge of the container, whereby a leak proof seal is formed therebetween, but yet allows air to enter between its retaining collar, and the vent tube and reservoir tube, to allow air access into the container, as liquid is being drank therefrom.
Owner:BROWN CRAIG E +1

Pacifier

A pacifier includes a nipple, a shield and a handle. The nipple comprises a pair of wings extending longitudinally along a bulbous end of the nipple. The wings allow for air to exit and enter the space between the palate and the nipple to prevent a vacuum therebetween. Alternatively, the nipple has a channel system comprising a series of holes on the surface of the nipple, some contacting the palate, to also allow the air to enter and exit the space between the palate and the nipple. The stem of the nipple may also have a transverse hole which receives the baby teeth to prevent an open bite.
Owner:DAVIS JOHN J

Collapsible baby bottle and associated method

ActiveUS7819263B1Reducing air-intakeClosuresLarge containersCouplingBarcode
A collapsible baby bottle for reducing air-intake during feeding operations includes a body formed from disposable material, a plurality of linear ridges concentrically spanning across a non-uniform circumference thereof, and a coupling threadably attached directly to a top opening of the body. The apparatus further includes a nipple removably attached directly to the coupling, a cap removably affixed directly to the coupling for protecting the nipple from undesirable foreign debris and fluids, and a mechanism for preventing formation of powder formula lumps when mixing the powder formula and water within the body so that a homogenous mixture of the powder formula and the water is obtained. The apparatus further includes a strap tethered directly to the coupling and spaced from the body and the nipple respectively, and a barcode removably affixed directly to a bottom surface of the body for identifying nutritional information about the powder formula.
Owner:EZ EXPRESSIONS LLC

Cup assembly with retaining mechanism

A drinking cup assembly having a cup having an open end, a cap adapted to enclose the open end, the cap having a drinking spout and an air vent and a pair of mating surfaces that align with the drinking spout and the air vent, and a removable flow control valve adapted to engage the mating surfaces. The cap has a retaining mechanism that in conjunction with one mating surface secures in place the flow control element when not in use.
Owner:PLAYTEX PROD INC

Dual chamber nursery bottle

ActiveUS20070017890A1Readily disassembled and cleanedBottlesInternal framesEngineeringBottle
A dual chamber nursery bottle including upper and lower cylindrical shaped chambers disposed on a common axis one above the other and separated from one another by a rotatable valve assembly that is disposed on the common axis and in contact with the upper and lower chambers.
Owner:ALJADI SALMA E
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