1884
Milk Catcher for Nursing Women Patent 13012
(No Model.) L. E. PATTEE
MILK CATCHER FOR NURSING WOMEN.
No. Patented Apr. 8 1884.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
LYDIA EMELINE PATTEE OF SMITH CENTRE KANSAS.
MILK-CATCHER FOR NURSING-WOMEN.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. dated April 8 1884.
Application filed July 20 1883. (No model.)
To all whom it may concern
Be it known that I LYDIA EMELINE PATTEE a citizen of the United States
residing at Smith Centre in the county of Smith and State of
5 Kansas have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Milk-Catchers
for Nursing-Women; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full clear
and exact description of the invention such as will enable others skilled in
the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.
This invention relates to improvements in milk-catchers for nursing-women
and has for its objects to prevent the milk from wetting the clothing and to
improve the form. These objects are attained by the apparatus illustrated in
the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which
Figure 1 is an elevation taken from the side next the body. Fig. 2 is a
front elevation. Fig. 3 is a sectional view. Fig. 4 is a view showing the
milk-catchers or protectors adjusted to the person.
The letter A represents the convex side of the protector. B is the concave
side. b b' are
short straps having button-holes. e e are elastic straps passing over the
shoulders and connected to each other by the strap f. The straps e e are
provided with fiat buttons which are buttoned to the short straps b whereby
the breast - protectors are suspended. The shoulder-straps e e are attached
to the belt E at the back. e' e' are short straps having flat buttons which
are buttoned to the short straps b' b'. The lower ends of straps e' e' are
attached to the belt E whereby the breast-protectors are held down and
retained in the proper position on the body of the wearer. The belt E is
fastened by a button in front or in any other convenient manner. a is an
orfice to receive the nipple and is placed on the concave surface of the
protector.
I prefer to make the protectors of white rubber or gutta-percha the same
material of which are made the bulbs of breast-pumps and 45 the nipples of
nursery -bottles. As this is flexible it will not bruise the breast and has
this advantage over a breast- protector made of any rigid substance such as
glass; and the manner of fastening it to the body of the wearer so enables
it to be kept in place without any hard pressure on the breast.
The letter C indicates a small orifice for emptying the contents of the
breast-protector. Having described my invention what I desire to claim and
secure by Letters Patent is In a milk-catcher for nursing-women the
protector A having concave side B orifice a and orifice C made of flexible
material and provided with short button-hole straps b b' in combination with
elastic straps e e having cross-strap f and straps e' attached to the belt E
as shown and described and for the purposes set forth.
In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 65 presence of two witnesses.
LYDIA EMELINE PATTEE. Witnesses:
M. A. BEAcoiu
J. N. BEACON.
1887 TUTTON Breast Pump Siphon Tube Art 18629
A. B. TUTTON.
BREAST PUMP
Patented Apr. 26 1887
N. PETERS. P..LithognheN D.C.Waanngt
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
ANAXIMANDER B. TUTTON OF SIOUX FALLS DAKOTA TERRITORY.
BREASTPUMP.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. dated April 26 1887.
Application filed July 8 1886. Serial No. . (No model.)
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I ANAXIMANDER B. Tutton of Sioux Falls in the county of
Minnehaha Dakota Territory have invented an Improved Breast Pump of which
the following is a specification.
My invention is in the nature of an improved breas pump.
Numerous forms of breastpumps have been devised for this purpose all of
which are more or less objectionable in consequence of their severe
mechanical action and their irregular pulsating strain. In most cases the
vacuum chamber is a compressible elastic bulb which in expanding exerts its
full suction upon the breast and this too in an intermittent manner.
In my breast pump the full force of the suction is exerted not upon the
breast alone but partly upon a waterleg or column of water and milk in a
long siphon tube which modifies its effect on the breast while the
pulsations of the bulb are broken up and rendered more like a uniform
suction the waterleg exerting a pull upon the breast in the interval of
compressing the bulb which makes the suction on the breast continuous and
prevents the nipple socket from becoming detached from the breast in said
intervals of compression of the bulb.
Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the application and use of my
invention and Fig. 2 is a side view partly in section of the breast pump.
In the drawings A is a bell shaped socket or cap adapted at its larger end
to fit against the breast of the woman and to inclose the nipple of that
breast. The smaller end of this socket A opens into a tube B near one end of
that tube. On the end of tube B nearest to. socket A is an elastic bulb C or
suction chain the other (or lower) end of tube B being open. The tube B is
a flexible rubber tube and when in use occupies the pendent position shown
in Fig. 1.
The manner of operation is as follows: The socket A is held against the
breast of the woman so as to inclose the nipple and with sufficient pressure
to prevent air from entering between the rim of A and the skin of the
woman's breast. The lower end of tube B is then submerged in water or other
liquid of proper temperature contained in a basin or other vessel.
The bulb C is then compressed and allowed to expand which action of
expansion sucks water (preferably warm) or other liquid from the basin into
the tube B and through it into socket A and into bulb C. The water or other
liquid thus furnished to socket A fills that socket and immerses the woman's
nipple inclosed therein. Then bulb C is alternately compressed and allowed
to expand the lower end of tube B being during the operation always
submerged in the liquid in the basin and the socket A being during the
operation always pressed against the breast with sufficient pressure to
prevent air from entering 65 socket A between its rim and the skin of the
woman's breast. It is obvious that if the socket A were a perfect bulb or
chamber or had its larger end closed with an inflexible material and were
then filled with water the tube B and the bulb C at the same time containing
water then neither the compression nor the expansion of bulb C could remove
by suction any of the water from such a bulb or chamber although the stress
of the suction would apply upon the water in such a bulb or chamber and
through the water upon the sides of the inside of such a bulb or chamber.
This principle acting in my device serves to keep socket A (when once
filled) full during the entire operation thus providing a constant immersion
of the woman's nipple in water or other fluid during the entire operation
for in my device the compression and expansion of bulb C and the flow of
water or other liquid through tube B together with the weight of the column
of water or other fluid in siphon tube B creates a suction force acting upon
the water or other liquid in socket A and through that liquid upon all parts
interior to socket A and therefore upon the nipple and ends of the
lactiferous ducts of the woman. This suction force draws milk from the
lactiferous ducts into socket A releases a corresponding quantity of water
or other liquid from socket A which flows there from into tube B and mixing
with the water or other liquid in tube B is finally discharged there from
into the basin and this operation continues as long as the device is in
position and in operation too socket A however remaining filled.
It is obvious in the operation of my device that however strong the
expansive force of bulb C may be its force acting upon the nipple and the
human parts inclosed in socket A is measured and tempered by the height of
the column of water or other liquid in tube B and this height may be
increased or diminished by lowering or raising the basin and the end of tube
B therein and this tempering of the expansive force of bulb C to suit
various degrees of tenderness in the human parts is one of the advantages of
my device. If however at any time it be desirable to allow bulb C to exert
its whole force upon the human parts it is only necessary (after compressing
Instead of the expansible and compressible bulb C) to pinch or otherwise
close tube B 1 bulb C any
other form of suctionchamber may
be used.
Having thus described my invention what I claim as new is a breastpump
consisting of a relatively long tube B a nipple socket A opening into the
same and a compressible and expansible bulb or suction chamber communicating
with
child is incompetent and in cases where al the nipple socket and tube at the
upper end though there is a competent child yet the of the latter the said
tube nipple socket and mother being diseased it is desirable to waste 1 bulb
being always in free and open communication without valve or obstructions to
interfere with the oscillation of the liquid column substantially as shown
and described. and while tube B is so closed to allow bulb C to expand and
this too while the woman's nipple is submerged in the water or other liquid
in socket A. Another advantage is in the use of warmth
and moisture in the operation of milking a woman where there is no child or
where the milk for the application of warmth and moisture to the nipple
closely simulates the
natural warmth and moisture of a child's mouth and brings the nipple and the
milk
organs into the natural conditions for milk giving because such warmth and
moisture dissolves the dry accumulations of pus or fever product softens the
hardened openings and relaxes the strictured lactiferous ducts and prepares
them for the easier extraction of milk.
I am aware that other breast pumps are known and used—such for instance as
are shown in Patents Nos. and . In the first of these the valves preclude
the oscillation of the liquid column. In No. the suction chamber is at the
bottom and cannot lift or oscillate the liquid column and in No. there is no
such relation of siphon tube and suction chamber which could permit the same
action to occur as in my invention.
