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Infant feeding apparatus

a technology for feeding apparatuses and babies, applied in the field of infant care products, can solve the problems of not being able to find a safe and effective way to hold a bottle for a baby, unable to work, and half measures are not safe and effective,

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-12-15
CVIJIC GEORGE L
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Problems solved by technology

Freeing up the hands of the caregiver will allow them to do other things naturally, but finding a safe and effective way to hold a bottle for a baby proves an elusive problem.
Such half measures are not safe and do not work.
Leaving bottles in babies unattended is not a safe practice according to many experts and doctors.
Moreover, propping up the bottle with a pillow or towel typically results in the bottle being knocked over in any event.
A study of the prior art reveals no inventions that adequately address these problems.
Many such devices require the infant to feed from a lying down (horizontal) position that is not healthy or safe.
Such devices typically encourage the caregiver to leave the infant unattended which is a problem that is not adequately addressed in the prior art.
None of these alternatives seen in the prior art adequately solve this problem.
A device that encourages a caregiver not to watch the infant is not safe and not a desirable attribute of such device.
This would be difficult to do without such a device.

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[0019] The overall construction of the apparatus is shown in FIGS. 1-3. The handle 1 is in connection with an extension member 2 that travels within the handle. These two pieces are sized and shaped so that the extension can both extend from the handle in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the handle as well as rotate within the handle. FIG. 1 shows the device with the extension member fully extended from the handle that would provide the furthest distance that the bottle can be held away from the caregiver's hand. (FIG. 2 shows the extension in retracted position.) In this position, the apparatus can still be used but the bottle, held in the clamp 4, would b closest to the caregiver's hand that is holding the handle. Both positions can be used for feeding the infant as well as intermediate positions where the extension is deployed at any position between that of FIGS. 1 and 2.

[0020] As can be seen in the figures, both the handle and the extension section will be of c...

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Abstract

An infant feeding apparatus to be used in connection with a baby bottle during bottle feeding of an infant is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a handle section having an elongated shape and a hollow cross section and a series of apertures running along the axis of the handle. There is an extension piece adapted to fit within the handle allowing it to rotate within said handle. The extension has a pair of prongs adapted to fit around the cross section of a baby bottle, so that the baby bottle may be extended from the arm of the caregiver via the extension piece and handle.

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FIELD AND BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] The invention relates to the field of infant care products and in particular to an apparatus for effectively extending the reach of an infant care give who is feeding the baby a bottle. The apparatus will secure a baby bottle and allow the bottle to be extended from the arm of the caregiver. Specifically the apparatus is to be used by a caregiver cradling the infant in a sitting position with one hand and arm and that same hand and arm is holding the apparatus in connection with the baby bottle. This leaves the other hand and amrm free to do other things. [0002] It is an object of the invention to provide an apparatus for securing a baby bottle to free up one hand and arm of the caregiver while still providing (human) supervision and interaction with the feeding infant. [0003] It is an object of the invention to provide an apparatus which enables a caregiver to cradle an infant in the sitting position with one hand and arm and bottle feed...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B65D1/04A47D15/00A61J9/06A47F13/06
CPCA61J9/0676A61J9/0623A61J9/0638
Inventor CVIJIC, GEORGE L.
Owner CVIJIC GEORGE L
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