Title: Support for infant's nursing bottle

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1. A support for a nursing bottle for use by an infant comprising an elongated member having a hook-like element at its upper end, a bottle-gripping loop at its lower end, and an intermediate elongated portion sufficiently stiff to maintain the bottle in a substantially horizontal position and sufficiently flexible to accommodate substantial movements of the infant's head without loss of the bottle from the infant's mouth, the plane of said loop being substantially vertical and substantially perpendicular to the plane of said hook-like element, said hook-like element being formed for close-fitting immovable engagement with external structure located above the infant's head, a continuous length of nonmetallic flexible tubing forming said hook-like element, said intermediate portion and said loop, and stiffeners in the respective ends of said length of flexible tubing shaped to form said hook-like element and said loop.

2. A support structure according to claim 1 wherein said stiffeners comprise lengths of metallic wire bent to the shape of said hook-like element and said loop.

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Inventors: Schmidt, III, Lorentz
Schmidt, Diane Elizabeth

Application Number: 478507
Filing Date: 1974-06-12
Publication_date: 1976-05-04
Assignee:
Primary Class(es): 248/104
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

1030744	Jun, 1912	Neumann	248/102.
1634162	Jun, 1927	Tesk	248/102.
1692098	Nov, 1928	Sullivan	248/104.
1750672	Mar, 1930	Krischer	248/102.
1867992	Jul, 1932	Sullivan	248/104.
2448189	Aug, 1948	Mott	248/104.
2457972	Jan, 1949	Bailey	248/103.
2638296	May, 1953	Battle	248/105.
3161392	Dec, 1964	Kopec et al.	248/104.
3539140	Nov, 1970	Tuttle	248/104.

Other Refs: 2,063,053476,390

Jul, 1971	DT
Aug, 1951	CA

Primary Examiner: Frazier, Roy D.
Assistant Examiner: Gibson, Jr., Robert W.
Attorney: Burgess; F. Travers